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Competition Law and M&A: Key Considerations

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Theatre Review: ‘Crimes of the Heart’ at The Colonial Players

  The year is 1974. While the war in Viet Nam dominates headlines across America, the small town of Hazlehurst, Mississippi is dealing with salacious news all its own. Prominent attorney and politician Zachary Botrelle has been shot in the gut—presumably by his pretty, young wife Babe, youngest of the Macgrath sisters. Babe admits she […] See original article at: https://mdtheatreguide.com/2023/01/theatre-review-crimes-of-the-heart-at-the-colonial-players/

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Industrial design protection in Vietnam?

Register industrial design in Vietnam is necessary for individual and organization.

Industrial design is the outward appearance of a product embodied in three-dimensional configuration, lines, colors or a combination of such elements. An impressed appearance shall increase the value of products, the attraction to customers and the distinction from other same products. In fact, however, appearances of products can be copied easily if there no legal protection and prior prevention. Filling industrial design in National Office of Intellectual Property shall guarantee that your product appearance is protected from violation of others.

                             Register industrial design in Vietnam

With highly professional staff and great experience in IP aspect in Vietnam, ANT Lawyers would like to offer you Industrial Design Filing service as follow:

ANT Lawyers service in Industry Design

Our services in this area include:

a. Evaluate the possibility of registration and use of Industrial Design;

b. Search for information on the registration and use of Industrial design;

c. File application and proceed with the legal procedures on the registration of Industrial design;

d. Advise and proceed with the legal procedures on the record of assignment of Industrial Design application;

e. Advise and proceed with the legal procedures on the record of amendment of Industrial Design application such as: name and address of the applicant;

f. Advise and proceed with the legal procedures on the amendment of the Industrial Design Certificate on the basis of transferring of ownership, merging companies; record of change of name and address of the Certificate holder;

g. Advise on the renewal of validity of the exclusive Industrial Design Certificate.

h. License and Assignment;

i. Opposition against proceedings;

j. Appeal; cancellation; invalidation;

How to file Industrial Design in Vietnam?

Required documents:

i. Original Power of Attorney from the Applicant(s);

The POA must be signed by an applicant or duly authorized representative on behalf of the Applicant (no further notarization or legalization is required);

The POA is required at the time of filing, please therefore arrange to have and provide us with scan copy via fax or email first and original one can be followed within one [01] month later.

ii. Full name and address of applicant(s);

iii. Full name, address and nationality of designer(s);

iv. Drawing of design;

The drawings of design must show clearly 7 views (separately in jpeg. format is preferable): perspective view, front view, rear view, right view, left view, top view, bottom view, at a same scale; and the minimum resolution is 300DPI.

v. Original certified true copy of priority document (if any);

vi. Salient novelty features description in which showing the using purpose or Lorcano classification of design, if any.

Time and procedures:

The ID application will be examined by National Office of Intellectual Property of Viet Nam (NOIP) with ID Examination Procedure as below:

i. Formality examination: Under Intellectual Property Law of Vietnam, the above application will be examined as to form within one [01] month as from the filing date or date entering the national phase. If the ID application meets the requirements as to form, the NOIP will issue a decision of formality acceptance and then the application will be further processed.

ii. The Substantive Examination: The above application will be examined as to substance within 12 months.

• Notification of the Substantive Examination Results.

• The Decision of Refusal or Request to pay fee.

• Issuing the ID of Invention

Note: The deadline for filing design application in Vietnam on the basis of claiming priority right under Paris convention is 6 months counted from the earliest priority date;

iii. The total time from filing to registration in straightforward case is 12-14 months. However, in practice, this duration can be extended further 3-6 months;

ID Term and Maintenance:

A registered industrial design is given an initial protection period of 5 years from the date of filing and is extended for two further consecutive terms of 5 years each. The maximum protection period is 15 years.

If you are looking for an experience Industrial design attorney in Vietnam to help you with your Industrial design matters, you should visit ANTLawyers.vn. Our attorneys have experience with the IP process and will work closely with you as you apply for your IP.

Hope this helps!

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The Endurance of Police Brutality, By Boyd Lemon- Retired Attorney

The following is an essay written by my grandfather, a former attorney who volunteered for the ACLU. It recounts one of his experiences with a police brutality case. Links to the stories of his other cases will be in the notes of this post once they’re ready. All names have been changed to protect the individuals involved.

Police brutality, a form of punishment by the police before one has been tried or convicted of a crime, is not new, not a 21 st Century phenomenon. I represented victims of police brutality during the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s of the previous century. None of those I represented were killed. There were not as many victims killed back then probably because police did not have access to military weapons, nor did they use their guns as a first resort, as they do now. In fact, police chiefs and some politicians complained that the criminals had better weapons than the police.

My experience was that police brutality was and is not confined to people of color, although present day studies indicate people of color more than others bear the primary brunt of all types of unjustified police conduct. In my experience, unjustified police conduct generally targets those whom police perceive as people outside the mainstream or privileged class. In the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, in addition to people of color, they targeted young men with long hair and those they perceived as “hippies” or “queers,”without regard to their color. It would appear that today, in addition to people of color, they target those they perceive as “ANTIFA” or “libs.”

I joined the ACLU of Southern California as a volunteer attorney shortly after I passed the Bar Exam, probably around 1967 or ‘68. I did mostly research for a couple of years, and then the chief attorney for the ACLU of Southern California asked me if I would be interested in representing clients who had been beat up by the police. Back then they mostly used their batons, pistols or fists to beat up suspects and/or to rape females, instead of shooting them. There was a citizen complaint office of the LAPD, but they never disciplined officers. The only potential remedy was a civil suit for damages, usually for common law battery and/or civil rights violations under the federal Civil Rights Act.

We usually sued the City and the individual officers involved. Our biggest problem was that when there was a conflict in the testimony about what happened, jurors usually believed the cops.

From 1970 through about 1978 I represented victims in four different police brutality cases. The case I spent the most time on and that took 6 years to complete was for a white male UCLA student (with long hair) To protect his privacy, I’ll call him Hank. In 1972 there were massive demonstrations on the UCLA campus protesting the Viet Nam war, by students, as well as outside activists, mostly young white people. The demonstrations continued for weeks, and at one time demonstrators occupied the Administration building in a “sit-in.”

Hank had attended a class away from the main part of the demonstration on the day in question, but to get to his car he had to walk through the area where the demonstration was taking place. He lived off campus. When he arrived at the demonstration area, he saw that there were a couple hundred demonstrators (his estimate), and records later showed about 50 police. He observed a lot of yelling, confusion and a number of cops pushing students down and beating some with their batons and fists and sometimes kicking them. He did not observe any arrests. He tried to get around the melee to get to his car, but was accosted by two cops. He testified that at no time did he join the demonstrators, nor did he yell at or speak to the police. He was trying to figure out how he could get around the demonstration and out of the area so he could get to his car. One of the cops yelled at him to get out of the area. He responded that he was trying to get to his car and pointed in that direction. Another cop joined them, and that cop pushed Hank to the ground. The two cops started beating Hank with batons about his head, face and chest, as he lay on the ground. At that point he was yelling at them to stop and calling them “pigs” until he became unconscious. Sometime later he woke up in an ambulance that transported him to UCLA Medical Center. The next day his girlfriend called the ACLU, and they called me.

Hank was released from the hospital two days later, and he and his girlfriend came to see me. He didn’t want to do anything, but she insisted, and eventually he agreed to sue.

It was hard to look at poor Hank, he looked so grotesque. Three days after the incident, when I first saw him, one of his eyes was still swollen completely shut, and the doctor had told him he might be blind in that eye (Fortunately, he eventually regained full vision). His other eye was blood-shot. He had a huge gash with stitches across his forehead. His cheeks were swollen. Hank could barely open his mouth. His nose was bent off-center. And he even had wounds on his shoulders and chest.

The police typically lied in their reports and testimony when they beat up or killed people, and, of course, there was no video then. Hank had seen a kid that was in one of his classes, who was participating in the demonstration. This kid was a witness to what they did to Hank. The two policemen claimed that Hank refused to disperse and resisted arrest, and his wounds were caused by their need to subdue him.

The case was transferred from the Santa Monica Court to Torrance, which was unfortunate because a Santa Monica Jury would be much more liberal than a Torrance Jury, which would have been likely to believe the cops, who typically lied. It was difficult to get a jury verdict against the police. For that reason, I elected to waive the jury and let the judge decide the case. That was a mistake. It turned out the judge was a political conservative and found in favor of the police.

I won’t get into the legal technicalities, but we appealed, and two years later the Court of Appeal reversed the judge’s decision and ordered a new trial. This time I demanded a jury trial, and the case was assigned to downtown L.A. The City Attorney tried to get rid of all the black jurors, but we ended up with two. (important only because they are more likely than whites to not believe the cops; they know cops lie.) By this time, Harry’s wounds had healed, except for a scar on his forehead, but we had lots of photos.

The cops continued to lie, but this time we won, and the jury awarded Harry $10,000, about $50,000 in today’s dollars, not much, considering the extent of his injuries. Of course, the City paid the money, and the cops were never disciplined in any way. The Deputy City Attorney who tried the case told me a verdict against the police in L.A. was very rare. Sadly, nothing has changed for the better in 50 years.

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“When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”

Technical Sergeant Leonard P. Matlovich was a Vietnam War veteran and receivrd a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his service. He was also the first gay soldier to out himself on purpose to the military.

Matlovich was the son of a career Air Force sergeant and spent his childhood living on military bases. When he enlisted in the Air Force at the age of 19 he volunteered to be assigned to Viet Nam (eventually serving 3 tours of duty). He was seriously wounded when he stepped on a landmine in Đà Nẵng.

When he returned to the US he was stationed in Florida and started going to gay bars in Pensacola. In 1973, at the age of 30, he had sex with man for the first time. It was a difficult decision but he “came out" to his friends, BUT he hid the news from the Air Force.

Matlovich volunteered to teach classes for the Air Force on Race Relations. This was in response to several racial incidents in the military during that era. He was so successful that the Air Force sent him around the country to coach other instructors. While conducting the classes, Matlovich realized that gays faced similar discrimination as that of African Americans.

In 1974, Matlovich learned that gay activist Frank Kameny was looking for a gay service member with a perfect record to create a test case to challenge the military's ban on homosexuals. He met with Kameny and ACLU attorneys to make a plan.

In March 1975 Matlovich hand-delivered a letter to his commanding officer at Langley AFB. He was challenging the ban on Gays using the landmark Supreme Court ruling on “Brown versus the Board of Education" as his basis - it had outlawed racial segregation in public schools.

Within months Matlovich became an icon that gays across the country rallied around. He appeared on the 09/08/1975 cover of Time magazine - the first openly gay man to appear on the cover of a US news-magazine.

During his discharge hearing, Matlovich he was asked if he would pledging to "never practice homosexuality again" in exchange for being allowed to remain in the Air Force. Matlovich refused. Despite his military record, tours of duty in Vietnam, and high performance evaluations, the panel ruled Matlovich unfit for service. He was discharge in October 1975.

Matlovich sued but the case was bounced from court to court. Finally in 1980, the Air Force offered him a financial settlement based on back pay, future pay, and pension. He accepted (the amount was $160,000).

During this period, Matlovich was excommunicated by the Mormon Church - TWICE!

But Matlovich also became a Gay activist - helping with fundraising campaigning against Anita Bryant in Florida, and John Briggs' in California

When the AIDS crisis surfaced in the 1980s, Matlovich fought for HIV/AIDS education and treatment. But unfortunately, in 1986, he was diagnosed with the diseases himself. He began treatment with AZT, but his condition was poor. Even then, he continued campaigning - protesting against Roland Reagan’s Administration feable efforts to combat AIDS.

On 06/22/1988 at the age of 45, Leonard Matlovich died. His tombstone does not bear his name. It reads,:

“When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”

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There was an interesting story in the news recently about a senior citizen who was adopted as a child and finally decided to seek out the history of his birth parents. Growing up happy with his adopted family, Bruce Beyer of Buffalo, NY never had a desire to search for his birth parents. However, at 68-years-old with some health issues, physicians kept pressing him for his family health history. That prompted him to seek out the history of his birth parents. He subsequently found out that he is the son of former Major League Baseball catcher Joe Tipton. Primarily a back up catcher, Tipton played for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Athletics and Washington Senators. In 1948, as a rookie, he was a member of the 1948 Cleveland Indians team that won the World Series. (The last time the Indians won the title.) Seven weeks before that feat, Beyer was born. (In the team photo, Joe Tipton is in the top row, second from right.)  The story is even more intriguing in that Bruce Beyer was at one time a bit of a celebrity himself. During the Viet Nam war, Beyer was part of an anti-war demonstration in Washington where he and other men turned in their draft cards to US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. He subsequently fled to Sweden and Canada to avoid the draft and criminal charges. Later, he decided to return to the US to face the music. Ironically, he hired the then former USAG Clark to defend him. Beyer, Clark and a group of supporters and reporters crossed the Peace Bridge from Fort Erie, Ontario to Buffalo, New York, in a symbolic effort to repatriate and confront his fate. Joe Tipton was a World War II veteran, having served in the US Navy. He died in 1994 in Birmingham, Alabama at age 72. One has to wonder if he was familiar with the Bruce Beyer’s draft dodging story when it happened and if so, did he ever realize that it was his son? Life is stranger than fiction.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2017/06/15/fathers-day-story-touches-all-bases/395402001/

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Letter to Pelosi

Wow! This man is really torqued!!! Could we wonder what Pelosi did to him to make him so mad?

FYI, This has been checked via Snopes, who contacted Mr. Guthrie, who confirmed he did write & send this letter to Ms. Pelosi,,,, here is one brave American, AND his credentials are impressive! Check his credentials, then read his letter to Pelosi!

______________________________________________

Born: St. Louis, Missouri. August 21, 1944

Bar Admissions: North Carolina, 1969

U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina, 1969

U.S. Tax Court

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Education: Woodford College, 1966 A.B.

Mercer University, 1969 J.D.

Phi Alpha Delta

Vice-Justice, District XIV, 1968 - 1969

Professional Associations and Memberships:

North Carolina and American Bar Associations ( Member, Sections on: Administrative Law; General Practice; Litigation)

26th Judicial District and North Carolina State Bar

Mecklenburg County Bar Association

American Association of Justice

North Carolina Trial Lawyers Association

Captain, U.S. Army, 1969-1971, Vietnam

National Defense Medal, 1969

Republic of Viet Nam Service Media.

Bronze Star Medals (2), 1971

Assistant District Attorney, Mecklenburg County, 1971 - 1974

Charlotte Chamber of Commerce

Chairman, Board of Trustees - Providence United Methodist Church

Board of Directors, Alexander Children's Home

Wofford Alumni Executive Council

Scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America

Board of Directors, Boy Scouts of America of Mecklenburg County

Board of Directors, Girl Scout Council

Life Member, National Eagle Scout Association

Life Member, Girl Scouts of America

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear Ms. Pelosi:

I write to you out of utter disdain! You are as despicable and un-American as the traitor Jane Fonda.

I am a soon to be a 75 year-old who has voted in every state and local election since 1966. I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats alike. I have worked on campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats, white and black. I served the country that I love in Vietnam, as my son did in the Middle East . I was awarded two bronze stars. I have been involved in politics since age 6 when my father was campaign manager for a truly great American Congressman, Charles Raper Jonas, who worked for his constituents and his country, and was to be admired, unlike you.

You obviously haven't read the Constitution recently, if ever, the Federalist Papers, or even David McCulloughs book on John Adams. You ought to take the time while riding around in your government provided luxury executive jet to do just that. You represent Socialistic and even Marxist principals that our founding fathers tried to avoid when setting out the capitalistic republican form of government represented by our Constitution.

I find it interesting that you and your husband are multi-millionaires with much of your fortune being made as a result of your public service. You have controlled legislation that has enhanced your husband's investments both on and off shore. At the same time you redistributed the wealth of others. Our system of a free market economy is being destroyed by the likes of you. You ride around in a Gulfstream airplane at the tax payers expense while criticizing the presidents of companies who produced something for the economy. You add nothing to the economy of the United States; you only subtract therefrom.

I would like to suggest that you return to the city of fruitcakes and nuts and eat your husband's canned tuna and pineapple - produced by illegal immigrants and by workers who have been excluded from the protection that 90% of the legal workers in the United States have.

I await your defeat in the next election with glee...

Don’t ever use the term un-American again for protesters who love this country and are exercising their rights upon which this country was founded. By the way, while I served in the Army, I was spit on by the same type of lunatics who support you and who you probably supported in the 60s and 70s. You are an embarrassment to all of us who served so that you would have the protected right of free speech to call us un-American. But at the same time, I have the right to write you to notify you that I consider you to be un-American, as do the majority of the people of this formerly great country. You are a true disgrace to most of the people who served this country by offering themselves for public service in the United States Congress.

I feel certain your aides will not share this letter with you, but I intend to share it with many...

Let's help this man fulfill his 'commitment' to Pelosi

by forwarding his thoughts!

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

ESSAY ON CONTEMPORARY BLACK CINEMA

Michael B Jordan as real life civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson in Just Mercy (2019), one of my best 1,001 movies. 

Critical reception for the film was not as enthusiastic as other recent black themed films, with some complaining about Oscar bait,  “surface” and unsubtle characters, a��“bland crowd pleaser.”  Maybe a few F bombs and a constantly moving camera would make it edgier for the trendies.

Perhaps there are also unspoken objections to successful black men in business suits?   Critics seem to prefer blacks when they are strictly seen as victims, most notably in the recent Best Picture Oscar winners 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight.  In both films the black characters are defined by the overwhelming suffering in their lives, complete with graphic scenes of torture, endured with nobility.  Or the Oscar winning Green Book, the fascinating story of a black concert pianist in the 1950s that reduces him to being the troubled agent of a far less interesting common white man’s getting woke.  Critical praise was also heaped on the recent Queen and Slim, another sad story of escalating and relentless victimization, with an unhappy ending.

But when the blacks on the screen are successful, that’s somehow not seen as an equally powerful political statement.  Perhaps black intellectual achievement  just doesn’t appeal as much to white guilt?  The films of Denzel Washington are never shown for Black History Month and any positive critical reaction is generally mild and muted.  In Antwone Fisher, Denzel is a Navy psychiatrist treating a young sailor.  In The Great Debaters, he provides a history lesson on how the debate team in a small black college in Texas took on Harvard University.  In Fences, Denzel directs a Pulitzer Prize winning play about a black working class family’s domestic struggles.  None of Denzel’s characters are ever one dimensional victims.  

Denzel has never been nominated for a BAFTA award (the British Oscars) for his acting or directing, despite all their recent efforts at inclusion, and none of his films as actor or director rank on Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the 100 best black movies of the 21st century.

Someone recently wrote about Spike Lee’s new Viet Nam feature on Netflix, that while some films will make you think, Spike Lee films always tell you what to think.  Even when his films are ripped on for their numerous flaws, and their amateurish qualities are exposed, critics reflexively hammer home their praise for Spike’s bold and fearless political correctness.  There are no Spike Lee films among my best 1,001 movies.  They are never enlightening, uplifting, or finely crafted.

Maybe I’m just tired of seeing blacks as one dimensional victims on the big screen. Maybe I’d just rather be entertained than lectured to.   Maybe I just feel better about myself and I feel better about the human race when I see entertaining and inspirational movies celebrating achievement.  Not 12 More Years of Slavery  More Hidden Figures.  

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This has been checked via Snopes, who contacted Mr. Guthrie, who confirmed he did write & send this letter to Ms. Pelosi.  Here is one brave American, with impressive credentials!

Born: St. Louis, Missouri. August 21, 1944

Bar Admissions: North Carolina, 1969

U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina, 1969

U.S. Tax Court  Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Education: Woodford College, 1966 A.B. Mercer University, 1969 J.D. Phi Alpha Delta Vice-Justice, District XIV, 1968 - 1969

Professional Associations and Memberships:  North Carolina and American Bar Associations ( Member, Sections on: Administrative Law; General Practice; Litigation) 26th Judicial District and North Carolina State Bar Mecklenburg County Bar Association American Association of Justice North Carolina Trial Lawyers Association

Captain, U.S. Army, 1969-1971, Vietnam National Defense Medal, 1969 Republic of Viet Nam Service Medal. Bronze Star Medals (2), 1971

Assistant District Attorney, Mecklenburg County, 1971 - 1974

Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Chairman, Board of Trustees - Providence United Methodist Church Board of Directors, Alexander Children's Home Wofford Alumni Executive Council

Scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors, Boy Scouts of America of Mecklenburg County Board of Directors, Girl Scout Council Life Member, National Eagle Scout Association Life Member, Girl Scouts of America ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear Ms. Pelosi: I write to you out of utter disdain! You are as despicable and un-American as the traitor Jane Fonda.  I am a soon to be a 75 year-old who has voted in every state and local election since 1966.  I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats alike.  I have worked on campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats, white and black.  I served the country that I love in Vietnam, as my son did in the Middle East .  I was awarded two bronze stars.  I have been involved in politics since age 6 when my father was campaign manager for a truly great American Congressman, Charles Raper Jonas, who worked for his constituents and his country, and was to be admired, unlike you.

You obviously haven't read the Constitution recently, if ever, the Federalist Papers, or even David McCulloughs book on John Adams. You ought to take the time while riding around in your government provided luxury executive jet to do just that. You represent Socialistic and even Marxist principals that our founding fathers tried to avoid when setting out the capitalistic republican form of government represented by our Constitution.

I find it interesting that you and your husband are multi-millionaires with much of your fortune being made as a result of your public service. You have controlled legislation that has enhanced your husband's investments both on and off shore.  At the same time you redistributed the wealth of others.  Our system of a free market economy is being destroyed by the likes of you.  You ride around in a Gulfstream airplane at the tax payers expense while criticizing the presidents of companies who produced something for the economy.  You add nothing to the economy of the United States; you only subtract therefrom.

I would like to suggest that you return to the city of fruitcakes and nuts and eat your husband's canned tuna and pineapple - produced by illegal immigrants and by workers who have been excluded from the protection that 90% of the legal workers in the United States have.

I await your defeat in the next election with glee … Don’t ever use the term un-American again for protesters who love this country and are exercising their rights upon which this country was founded.  By the way, while I served in the Army, I was spit on by the same type of lunatics who support you and who you probably supported in the 60s and 70s.  You are an embarrassment to all of us who served so that you would have the protected right of free speech to call us un-American.  But at the same time, I have the right to write you to notify you that I consider you to be un-American, as do the majority of the people of this formerly great country.  You are a true disgrace to most of the people who served this country by offering themselves for public service in the United States Congress.

I feel certain your aides will not share this letter with you, but I intend to share it with many …

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Industrial design protection in Vietnam?

Register industrial design in Vietnam is necessary for individual and organization.

Industrial design is the outward appearance of a product embodied in three-dimensional configuration, lines, colors or a combination of such elements. An impressed appearance shall increase the value of products, the attraction to customers and the distinction from other same products. In fact, however, appearances of products can be copied easily if there no legal protection and prior prevention. Filling industrial design in National Office of Intellectual Property shall guarantee that your product appearance is protected from violation of others.

                         Register industrial design in Vietnam

With highly professional staff and great experience in IP aspect in Vietnam, ANT Lawyers would like to offer you Industrial Design Filing service as follow:

ANT Lawyers service in Industry Design

Our services in this area include:

a. Evaluate the possibility of registration and use of Industrial Design;

b. Search for information on the registration and use of Industrial design;

c. File application and proceed with the legal procedures on the registration of Industrial design;

d. Advise and proceed with the legal procedures on the record of assignment of Industrial Design application;

e. Advise and proceed with the legal procedures on the record of amendment of Industrial Design application such as: name and address of the applicant;

f. Advise and proceed with the legal procedures on the amendment of the Industrial Design Certificate on the basis of transferring of ownership, merging companies; record of change of name and address of the Certificate holder;

g. Advise on the renewal of validity of the exclusive Industrial Design Certificate.

h. License and Assignment;

i. Opposition against proceedings;

j. Appeal; cancellation; invalidation;

How to file Industrial Design in Vietnam?

Required documents:

i. Original Power of Attorney from the Applicant(s);

The POA must be signed by an applicant or duly authorized representative on behalf of the Applicant (no further notarization or legalization is required);

The POA is required at the time of filing, please therefore arrange to have and provide us with scan copy via fax or email first and original one can be followed within one [01] month later.

ii. Full name and address of applicant(s);

iii. Full name, address and nationality of designer(s);

iv. Drawing of design;

The drawings of design must show clearly 7 views (separately in jpeg. format is preferable): perspective view, front view, rear view, right view, left view, top view, bottom view, at a same scale; and the minimum resolution is 300DPI.

v. Original certified true copy of priority document (if any);

vi. Salient novelty features description in which showing the using purpose or Lorcano classification of design, if any.

Time and procedures:

The ID application will be examined by National Office of Intellectual Property of Viet Nam (NOIP) with ID Examination Procedure as below:

i. Formality examination: Under Intellectual Property Law of Vietnam, the above application will be examined as to form within one [01] month as from the filing date or date entering the national phase. If the ID application meets the requirements as to form, the NOIP will issue a decision of formality acceptance and then the application will be further processed.

ii. The Substantive Examination: The above application will be examined as to substance within 12 months.

• Notification of the Substantive Examination Results.

• The Decision of Refusal or Request to pay fee.

• Issuing the ID of Invention

Note: The deadline for filing design application in Vietnam on the basis of claiming priority right under Paris convention is 6 months counted from the earliest priority date;

iii. The total time from filing to registration in straightforward case is 12-14 months. However, in practice, this duration can be extended further 3-6 months;

ID Term and Maintenance:

A registered industrial design is given an initial protection period of 5 years from the date of filing and is extended for two further consecutive terms of 5 years each. The maximum protection period is 15 years.

If you are looking for an experience Industrial design attorney in Vietnam to help you with your Industrial design matters, you should visit ANTLawyers.vn. Our attorneys have experience with the IP process and will work closely with you as you apply for your IP.

Hope this helps!

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Letter to PelosiWow! This man is really torqued!!!  Could we wonder what Pelosi did to him to make him so mad?FYI, This has been checked via Snopes, who contacted Mr. Guthrie, who confirmed he did write & send this letter to Ms. Pelosi,,,, here is one brave American, AND his credentials are impressive! Check his credentials, then read his letter to Pelosi!___________________________________________________Born: St. Louis, Missouri. August 21, 1944Bar Admissions: North Carolina, 1969U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina, 1969U.S. Tax Court Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Education: Wood ford College, 1966 A.B.Mercer University, 1969 J.D.Phi Alpha DeltaVice-Justice, District XIV, 1968 - 1969Professional Associations and Memberships:North Carolina and American Bar Associations ( Member, Sections on: Administrative Law; General Practice; Litigation)26th Judicial District and North Carolina State BarMecklenburg County Bar AssociationAmerican Association of JusticeNorth Carolina Trial Lawyers AssociationCaptain, U.S. Army, 1969-1971, VietnamNational Defense Medal, 1969Republic of Viet Nam Service Media.Bronze Star Medals (2), 1971Assistant District Attorney, Mecklenburg County, 1971 - 1974Charlotte Chamber of CommerceChairman, Board of Trustees - Providence United Methodist ChurchBoard of Directors, Alexander Children's HomeWofford Alumni Executive CouncilScoutmaster, Boy Scouts of AmericaBoard of Directors, Boy Scouts of America of Mecklenburg CountyBoard of Directors, Girl Scout CouncilLife Member, National Eagle Scout AssociationLife Member, Girl Scouts of America~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dear Ms. Pelosi:I write to you out of utter disdain! You are as despicable and un-American as the traitor Jane Fonda.I am a soon to be a 75 year-old who has voted in every state and local election since 1966.  I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats alike.  I have worked on campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats, white and black.  I served the country that I love in Vietnam, as my son did in the Middle East .  I was awarded two bronze stars.  I have been involved in politics since age 6 when my father was campaign manager for a truly great American Congressman, Charles Raper Jonas, who worked for his constituents and his country, and was to be admired, unlike you.You obviously haven't read the Constitution recently, if ever, the Federalist Papers, or even David McCulloughs book on John Adams. You ought to take the time while riding around in your government provided luxury executive jet to do just that. You represent Socialistic and even Marxist principals that our founding fathers tried to avoid when setting out the capitalistic republican form of government represented by our Constitution.I find it interesting that you and your husband are multi-millionaires with much of your fortune being made as a result of your public service. You have controlled legislation that has enhanced your husband's investments both on and off shore.  At the same time you redistributed the wealth of others.  Our system of a free market economy is being destroyed by the likes of you.  You ride around in a Gulfstream airplane at the tax payers expense while criticizing the presidents of companies who produced something for the economy.  You add nothing to the economy of the United States; you only subtract therefrom.I would like to suggest that you return to the city of fruitcakes and nuts and eat your husband's canned tuna and pineapple - produced by illegal immigrants and by workers who have been excluded from the protection that 90% of the legal workers in the United States have.I await your defeat in the next election with glee...Don’t ever use the term un-American again for protesters who love this country and are exercising their rights upon which this country was founded.  By the way, while I served in the Army, I was spit on by the same type of lunatics who support you and who you probably supported in the 60s and 70s.  You are an embarrassment to all of us who served so that you would have the protected right of free speech to call us un-American.  But at the same time, I have the right to write you to notify you that I consider you to be un-American, as do the majority of the people of this formerly great country.  You are a true disgrace to most of the people who served this country by offering themselves for public service in the United States Congress.I feel certain your aides will not share this letter with you, but I intend to share it with many...cid:169d1919c5b7e28bb431cid:169d1919c5b7e36d2c42Let's help this man fulfill his 'commitment' to Pelosi by sharing his remarks.

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The Cities: The Crucible

uncredited writer, Time, 19 January 1968

Lyndon Johnson was interrupted by applause 53 times during his State of the Union address, but the cheers were mostly perfunctory and markedly partisan. Only once did he draw from his audience of Congressmen and Cabinet members, judges and generals a prolonged, spontaneous ovation. That was when he declared: "The American people have had enough of rising crime and lawlessness in this country."

Increasingly, "crime in the streets"—an omnibus label encompassing all the wellsprings of urban unrest from ghetto riots to muggings in middle-class neighborhoods—looms, with the possible exception of Viet Nam, as the nation's prime preoccupation in Election Year 1968. Predicted Vice President Hubert Humphrey: "Safe streets will be the No. 1 domestic issue, overshadowing taxes, inflation and all the rest." Added a Humphrey aide: "Another summer of riots could really sink us next fall."

In similar vein, the Rev. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church in America, warned his pastors last week that "unless a massive improvement of the lot of Negro ghettos comes quickly," the outlook is for "more destructive and bloody uprisings that are no longer going to be confined to the ghetto areas, but will be carried into white racial areas." Noting the nihilistic mood among many Negroes, Fry added: "The present situation is comparable to Samson when he destroyed the Temple of Dagon and himself along with it. Like him, many black brothers, blind with rage, have their hands poised on the temple pillars, ready to start pushing."

Troubled Waters. President Johnson can hardly overestimate the depth or complexity of the problem. Once he was able to mobilize a conscience-strick en nation behind civil rights measures designed to right long-standing wrongs. Now, after four summers of holocausts in the nation's largest cities, concern over the Negro's welfare has been largely replaced by consternation at the prospect of anarchy. Nothing more dramatically underscored this shift than the total silence that greeted Johnson's State of the Union plea for several "vital" civil rights laws covering fair jury trials, enforcement of equal-employment opportunity and open housing. By contrast, he was applauded a dozen times when he spoke of curbing crime.

Noting that "Americans are prosperous as men have never been in recorded history," the President added mildly that, nonetheless, "there is in the land a certain restlessness, a questioning." He asked rhetorically: "Why, why, then, this restlessness?" He answered himself with an even greater rhetorical flourish: "Because when a great ship cuts through the sea, the waters are always stirred and troubled. And our ship is moving—and it's moving through troubled and new waters, and it's moving toward new and better shores."

Coming from the bridge, that seemed a peculiarly euphoric position report. Even the modest program of social reform that Johnson outlined faces—as he knows only too well—serious trouble getting safely through a restive, frugally inclined Congress.

Turning to crime, Johnson listed a number of measures aimed at calming the roiled waters. Americans, he said, "recognize that law enforcement is first the duty of local police and local government." He added: "The front-line headquarters against crime is in the home and in the church and in the city hall and the county courthouse and the statehouse—not in far-removed Washington." But the Federal Government "can and should help the cities and the states in their war on crime, and this we shall do."

He told Congress that it confronted "no more urgent business" than passage of his Safe Streets Act with a $100 million authorization, double the amount he requested last year. He called for a gun-control law to halt "the trade in mail-order murder" (an appeal that roused Robert Kennedy to his only applause during the 50-minute speech). To end "the sale of slavery to the young," he called for a narcotics-control act that would impose harsher penalties for the sale of LSD "and other dangerous drugs," and urged adding 219 agents to the present total of 639 in the Narcotics Bureau and in the Health, Education and Welfare Department's Bureau of Drug Abuse Control. In addition, he asked Congress to authorize 128 more FBI agents, for a nationwide strength of 6,718.

Bolts on the Door. The President's concern with lawlessness was further emphasized by the First Lady. At a White House luncheon for 50 women "doers" that was disrupted by an outburst by Eartha Kitt, she declared that it would be all too easy to "take the lazy path by merely sounding the alarm and putting extra bolts on our door." Added Lady Bird: "I think more of us are tired of just being shocked and talking about it. There are things responsible citizens are doing in crime control, in prevention, in legislation."

Before a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Yonkers, N.Y., Bobby Kennedy proposed a three-point attack on the "explosion of violence and crime" that is "spreading like a cancer across the land," including more and better-paid policemen and greater attention to low-income neighborhoods. New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay, whose police force is trying to cope with a 22.7% upsurge in major crimes in the past year, warned of an increasing "polarization" between affluent whites and impoverished Negroes and Puerto Ricans in U.S. cities.

Outlet for Rage. Martin Luther King last week set in motion plans for a massive march on Washington around April 1 that he has described as a "last, desperate try at nonviolence" and "an outlet for the rage in the ghetto." But the time may have passed when King or anyone else can provide what he calls "an alternative to a long, hot summer." The riot commission appointed by Johnson after last summer's Detroit eruption has reportedly concluded that where normal channels for achieving change are choked off, Negroes have often found revolt the most effective way of getting attention from city hall and Washington.

In any case, police forces around the nation are operating on the assumption that the summer will be a sizzler. Some are improving their community-relations programs in hopes of lowering the temperature. Far more hope to equip themselves with a wide range of riot-control gear, from armored cars (some armed with flamethrowers) in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, to helicopters in Chicago. More than 3,000 local, state and federal police agencies have bought the Mace chemical spray gun, designed to disable a rioter temporarily.

Machine Guns & Lions. In Miami, one of several cities that recently launched "get-tough" campaigns, the tactics seem to be producing results. Since Police Chief Walter Headley launched his crackdown on the city's violence-plagued Negro districts last Christmas, crimes have declined nearly two-thirds citywide, people have begun walking the streets after dark without fear, and nighttime church attendance has soared.

When Headley announced his campaign, civil rights leaders were alarmed that the emphasis would be more on Negro repression than on crime suppression. But the Rev. Thedford Johnson, pastor of St. John's Baptist Church on the edge of Miami's ghetto, for one, is satisfied that nothing of the sort has happened. "They holler about the shotguns and the dogs," said Johnson, referring to the Negro leaders. "They could justify machine guns and lions if that's what it takes to wipe out crime."

More constructively, the Administration has been conspicuously successful in enlisting business support for programs aimed at rooting out the causes of crime. In addition, the Justice Department is computerizing its intelligence center, expanding its staff and briefing U.S. attorneys on ways to avert riots. Before trouble reaches the boiling point, for example, the attorneys are instructed to channel all intelligence to Justice, where the computer will be recruited to gauge a city's mood. The Department is also financing four weeks of meetings at Virginia's Airlie House to instruct 122 mayors and police chiefs on how to defuse a potential explosion. There, the city officials pool information not only on riot-control techniques but also on community relations programs.

With a weather eye for the coming summer, the National Guard—whose performance in such cities as Newark and Detroit demonstrated a woeful lack of training for such emergencies—and the Army have both been placing new emphasis on techniques of riot control since last summer. In the hope of making America's cities less of a crucible in 1968 than they have been in the past four years, military experts have analyzed the layout of 100 trouble-prone areas, pre-positioned supplies in them, and drawn up contingency plans. They may well be needed.

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The Pandemic

By Jeff Lusk, June 9th, 2020

I haven’t had to deal with any illness associated with Covid-19. I’m one of the lucky ones that has escaped thus far. I have been quietly quarantined in my home in Michigan, wearing a mask on the rare occasions I leave to do the mundane necessities. Today it occurred to me that I have mostly ignored the outside world. I haven’t written a single word in nine months. Nine months ago I was preparing to settle in for the winter. I had planned to read and write for the six months of Michigan winter. By March I had accomplished nothing except binge watching Netflix, Prime, Acorn, and Britbox. Then the world changed.

I first learned of the possibility of this devastating virus in February. I had seen the reports in January but dismissed them. By March we were being told to quarantine and I quickly ordered my supplies that we all were told to use, hand sanitizers, wipes, masks, anti-bacterial hand soaps, etc. The world went a little crazy and bought every paper towel and roll of toilet paper in existence.

My personal inconveniences have been haircuts and pedicures. In Michigan, neither have been available since March. On June 15th, my world will resume to a previous normalcy but really, it won’t. Trump and a maniacal policeman in Minneapolis have wreaked havoc on our country. I think anyone my age (21 in 1968) would immediately think of the summer of madness in 1968. Race riots, insurrection by students protesting the war in Viet Nam, and everything associated with a country in total discontent. The Chicago Democratic convention summed up the country’s psyche; we were all on the edge. Fifty-two years later we have returned to the spot we were then. I wish Mollie Ivens, Mike Royko, and Jimmy Breslin were still on this earth to describe our circumstances. I’d like to hear Walter Cronkite make some sense out of current world. I’d like to hear the voice of Martin Luther King bringing change to our country. Instead we have a moronic unfit president, a diabolical Attorney General, a resurrected white supremacy movement, mass murders, a senate hell bent on voter suppression, A  Supreme Court Chief Justice that wreaks of right leaning bias, and a government willingness to use military might on our citizens. Whatever progress we made in the last 52 years has been wiped out (and then some) by an administration so completely corrupt that we won’t be able to reverse course for a generation.

I now wonder every day if the latter months of 2020 will bring us some control over the this virus and a new administration that will seek to heal the wounds  that have been inflicted on our country. We need to rid ourselves of our two nightmares.

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This is what we’ve got, do we want to keep it?

We are coming up on the last few months of this administrations first term and How are we feeling about what we got?

We have had nearly four years of do little leadership, no policy directions, very little significant legislation, and poor disaster responses. Years after two devastating hurricanes and now the most recent earthquake activity Puerto Rico is still in a shambles and still waiting for federal help to arrive.Even states that received prompt help are still not completely recovered. The western states were plagued by wildfires and they were chastised for poor forest management, all those leaves and branches should have been raked up, the only thing they didn’t realize were these forest were under the control of the U.S. Forest Service not the states.

Migrants fleeing gangs, political execution, starvation and other bodily harm should go somewhere else because we don’t want “their kind” of people here, they are rapists, murderers, gang members and drug runners. They are coming here to “sponge” off our welfare system.So the farmers were short of people to work in the fields to plant, tend, and harvest the crops. Most of these people are hard working, law abiding, tax paying people looking for a better life. Going to school to learn and achieve college degrees.

This administration was going to “Drain the Swamp” and get the corrupt politicians out of Washington but instead has had the highest number of indictments and convictions ever. The president virtually runs the Department of Justice thanks to William Barr the Attorney General who does whatever the president tells him to do.

The Affordable Care Act was supposed to be repealed and replaced within the first 100 days with a plan that would cover everyone and cover more and cost less. Parts of the ACA are still on the books and there is no sign of a replacement plan of any type that will cover everyone or cost less.

The economy that had been stimulated by the previous administration had grown to be very healthy and the credit was taken by this administration even though they did almost nothing except give a big tax break to the wealthy, the poor and middle class not so much just fell further behind.Then to make it so we were on a fairer footing with our trading partners they put stiff tarriffs on their goods making things more expensive for the American people, another “break” for them financially and telling them how much he was getting the other countries to pay in tarriffs ( the tarriffs put on the goods we bought from them and that we had to pay).

Their campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again”, yeah! They cozied up to many of the authoritarian countries while they pulled out of treaties with our allies and ignored and berated them. This by making the U.S. a pariah in the eyes of the world.

Then we get to the novel COVID-19 virus pandemic which was a deliberate fault of China for releasing it, which was a Democratic plan to make him look bad, which was a hoax, which wasn’t as bad as the Democrats and the scientist made it out to be,  which was no worse than a cold or the regular flue. Which after a few months infected a million people and had surpassed the previous 1913 pandemic death toll and had shortly after had killed more people than we had lost in the Viet Nam War . The administration had gutted the agencies that were responsible for handling this type of situation and there were no administrators who knew how to handle this situation because they had all been let go because we didn’t need to keep them on. We hadn’t had any need for them in years so why keep paying them for a just in case solution.  The administration denied the severity of this flue for months before it told Americans they knew about it. They had done nothing about stock piling materials that would be urgently needed and when  states turned to the federal government for help were told that they were responsible to get their own supplies and then bid against them for the supplies letting companies deny previous contracts with the states in favor of the federal government who bought them for more money. They had known for months this was coming but had not started working on a cure or a treatment that would prevent people from dying from it. But they weren’t responsible for not being ready. 

Now we are coming to the time when we decide to keep what we have or replace it. The administration isn’t working on making it easier to vote during a pandemic, why should they make it easier? They will just make it harder for minorities to vote, and make it more likely you will catch the flu while waiting in line to vote or better yet you won’t go to vote because you might be worried you will catch the flu. Voting by mail has been proposed and the opposition has been working to make it available. Their party holds the Senate so any bills to make it easier to vote will never see the light of day why take a chance of losing by a large turn out?

 So tell me, what will it be? Another four years of do nothing or stand up for a change?  You have the ball now.