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Oregon Residential Purchase Agreements: Contingencies, Earnest Money, Default, and Exit Rights A residential sale can come apart quickly. An inspection reveals costly foundation damage, financing fails, or a seller regrets accepting an offer after a better one arrives. Whether either side can leave depends on the signed purchase agreement and what happened under it. Oregon
Trademarking Foreign Words in the United States The fashion label Vetements spent nearly five years trying to register its name as a U.S. trademark for clothing. The problem was that vêtements is French for "clothing." The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) refused registration, and Vetements argued that the agency had no business translating
What Happens When Unmarried Couples Disagree About Selling a Home in Oregon? If unmarried co-owners of a home in Oregon cannot agree on whether to sell or retain the property and there is no written co-ownership agreement, the primary legal remedy is often a partition lawsuit. This type of lawsuit can compel the sale of
Registering Arabic Trademarks in the U.S.: What You Need to Know Arabic, one of the world's most widely spoken languages, plays a growing role in American life—both culturally and commercially. With around 1.4 million Arabic speakers in the U.S., it is the sixth most spoken language nationwide. Simultaneously, businesses from the Middle East and North
Registering a Trademark in the UK in 2025: What Global Brands Need to Know Navigating UK trademark registration in 2025 means understanding a legal system that has fully diverged from the EU model post-Brexit. Whether you're filing through the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) or leveraging the Madrid Protocol, protecting your brand in the UK
Trademarking Pitorro: A Real-World Example I know from my LinkedIn feed that I'm not the only trademark lawyer who slips into Trademark Lawyer Mode™ while shopping or just driving around. Sometimes we wonder whether a particular mark is registered, or we instinctively spot potential issues that could arise if someone applied to register the mark,
Oregon Eviction, Ejectment, and Squatter Removal: Choosing the Right Procedure A tenant, holdover tenant, guest, licensee, statutory squatter, or occupant claiming ownership may each require a different notice and a different lawsuit. Calling someone a "squatter" does not make that person one under Oregon law, and an owner who picks the wrong procedure can have
Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate: What Buyers Must Resolve Before Closing Foreign buyers purchased 67,100 existing U.S. homes worth $45.3 billion between April 2025 and March 2026, both numbers down sharply from the year before. The decline matters less than it first appears. Nearly half of those purchases were all-cash, and Chinese buyers alone
How to Settle a U.S. Litigation Matter: A Guide for Foreign Companies A few years ago, a Chinese manufacturing company received an $850,000 settlement offer just two months into a U.S. breach of contract dispute. The offer seemed premature—they hadn’t even started discovery, their engineers were confident in their position, and the CEO insisted they
The Bank Account Switch Scam: What to Do Before and After It Happens to You The bank account switch scam is one of the fastest-growing and most damaging forms of wire fraud and business email compromise (BEC) facing businesses today. This payment fraud scheme typically involves a supplier—or someone impersonating your supplier—requesting that payments be
