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COVID-19 Response Blog Posts From March 2020
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Blog: Trademark Registrations Are No Place For Pandemic Opportunism
Date: March 23, 2020
Title: Trademark Registrations Are No Place For Pandemic Opportunism
Summary: Major cultural and world events, along with even goofy tweets, often give rise to a run on the trademark office by those hoping to strike it rich through being the first to monopolize a phrase. No one ever gets rich from this tactic and these antics only illustrate the profound misunderstanding most of the populace has about what a trademark is....
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Blog: OCR Announces HIPAA Telehealth Security Waiver in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
Date: March 20, 2020
Title: OCR Announces HIPAA Telehealth Security Waiver in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
Summary: The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the body responsible for enforcing certain regulations pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), is exercising its enforcement discretion to meet the needs of health care providers and patients during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) public health emergency. ...
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Blog: What an Employer May Screen in the Time of COVID-19
Date: March 19, 2020
Title: What an Employer May Screen in the Time of COVID-19
Summary: In this time of extra precautions, closing businesses, and social distancing, employers are doing their best to protect the public and their workers. Some businesses, however, are unable to close their doors and/or serve a valuable public purpose. For those employers, they seek any and all available methods to ensure safety. Some of those measures, however, may violate various laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act....
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Blog: ALERT: COVID-19 / Coronavirus-Related Ransomware and Phishing Attacks
Date: March 13, 2020
Title: ALERT: COVID-19 / Coronavirus-Related Ransomware and Phishing Attacks
Summary: With the advent of the Coronavirus, criminals have begun to take advantage of what consumers expect to receive via email to conduct phishing attacks. Criminals are also expected to take advantage of millions of vulnerable remote connections from employee home networks to their corporate networks....
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Blog: Colorado Temporarily Requires Employers to Provide Sick Leave While Awaiting COVID-19 Testing
Date: March 12, 2020
Title: Colorado Temporarily Requires Employers to Provide Sick Leave While Awaiting COVID-19 Testing
Summary: On March 11, 2020, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) issued emergency rules, referred to as Colorado Health Emergency Leave with Pay (Colorado HELP) Rules, requiring employers in certain industries to provide four days of paid sick leave to employees with flu-like symptoms while awaiting test results for COVID-19. ...