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Crisis Management Update: Managing your business through change and disruption

This week's guide to Crisis Management

This week's email features a look at contractual performance excused due to COVID; Experts: Employers need an emergency plan; IP Frontiers: Welcome to Wonderland, electronics practitioners: The expansion of Alice; SBA loans available, your business may be eligible; Golf - fairway to opportunity.

For more on Crisis Management be sure to visit our website, crisismanagementupdate.com. We'd love to hear your thoughts or feedback on this newsletter. Please contact Patrick Brannan at pbrannan@bridgetowermedia.com.

Contractual performance excused due to COVID

In two recent decisions, in Massachusetts and New York, courts have upheld such arguments and excused contractual nonperformance related to COVID-19, based on theories of frustration of purpose and force majeure.

Experts: Employers need an emergency plan

Employers need to have a plan in place for how to deal with employees during an emergency.

IP Frontiers: Welcome to Wonderland, electronics practitioners: The expansion of Alice

I have joked with many patent examiners that it would be helpful if judges rendering decisions in this area were more acquainted with the technology itself and we have all agreed that arguing that software improves the functionality of a computer is an interesting argument because, generally speaking, executing software will slow a processor.