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We are pleased to present you with Taft’s Technology Insights newsletter, a collection of insights from our team to yours. For more information on our Technology practice, please visit www.taftlaw.com.
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|  | How Senior Management Causes Its Own ERP Problems
By: Marcus Harris
We often write about the mounting number of failed digital transformations, especially those involving an ERP software system. More often than not, the underlying cause of the failures involve either the vendor or integrator biting off more than they can chew. They misrepresent the capability of their ERP system or their experience at integrating a system into the user's existing software and hardware.
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| |  | U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down a Longstanding U.S. Ban on “Immoral” and “Scandalous” Trademark
By: Lindsey Rothrock
The U.S. government no longer has the authority to bar federal trademark registration for words or symbols that it determines to be immoral, obscene, vulgar or profane. On Monday, June 24, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court (the Court) struck down a longstanding federal prohibition on the registration of “immoral or scandalous” trademarks, holding that such a prohibition violates the First Amendment right to free expression.
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| |  | The Cost to Comply With DoD’s Cybersecurity Requirements to Be Reimbursable
By: Bill Wagner
Law360 published an article recently with the title, “DoD Official Says Cyber is an Allowable Contractor Cost.” The article states that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) will allow defense contractors to treat the costs of bringing their cybersecurity programs in line with DoD requirements as an allowable cost and, therefore, reimbursable. Specifically, at the June 14, 2019 Professional Services Council’s Federal Acquisition Conference, DoD special assistant for cybersecurity Katie Arrington said, “security is an allowable cost.”
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| |  | A Win for Browsewrap?
By: Mike Etienne
Offer and Acceptance . . . by Inquiry Notice. This is not a traditional understanding of contract law, but then again, internet sites do not always provide traditional contracts. Recently, a district court cited 9th Circuit precedent in deciding that because an online user had “at least inquiry notice of his need to comply with the Terms in using the website, and he continued to use the site knowing he was bound by the Terms, the user accepted the Terms by using the site.” Gutierrez v. FriendFinder Networks Inc., No. 18-CV-05918-BLF, 2019 WL 1974900, at *8 (N.D. Cal. May 3, 2019).
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| |  | Supreme Court Brings Clarity to Trademark Licensing Risks
By: Paul McGrady
The U.S. Supreme Court provided much-needed clarity on the effect bankruptcy has on the licensor’s right to revoke a trademark license. On May 20, 2019, SCOTUS decided, in an 8-1 decision, that “A debtor’s rejection of an executory contract under Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code has the same effect as a breach of that contract outside bankruptcy. Such an act cannot rescind rights that the contract previously granted.” Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC NKA Old Cold LLC No. 17-1657 (U.S. May 20, 2019).
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| |  | Reducing the Cost and Problems of an SAP S/4 HANA Software Implementation
By: Marcus Harris
Corporate financial wizards are expert at creating realistic expense budgets that project exactly how much will be spent on everything from paper clips to building a new facility and expanding into new markets. But even the best MBA analysts from the best grad schools have trouble accurately budgeting the cost and time for an SAP S/4 HANA installation whether it is for upgrading a legacy ERP software system or bringing a totally new one onstream.
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