• December 1, 2007 |

    A British Backdoor?

    Halloween 2007 is marked forever as a red-letter day in the rebellion of IP owners and the patent bar against the Patent and Trademark Office. GlaxoSmithKline won a preliminary injunction in federa

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  • August 17, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Federal Circuit ruling throws doubt on patent appeals to other courts

    The patent bar is debating whether appealing patent office rulings to district courts is viable in the wake of a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling.

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  • April 26, 2005 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    BARNES KEEPS ONE JOB AND TAKES ON ANOTHERTeveia Barnes may reach "nirvana."At least that's what the president and executive director of Lawyers for One America hopes her

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  • May 8, 2006 | Legal Times

    N.Y. Firm Goes to Bat for Home Team

    Apparently, the desire on the part of Major League Baseball to sell the Washington Nationals to a group with strong local ties did not extend to the future owner's lawyers.Baseba

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  • April 23, 2007 | The Recorder

    Going Green

    When Thomas Ciotti, a veteran intellectual property partner at Morrison & Foerster, took a seat last fall at a meeting of the firm's energy group partners, it raised some eyebrows in

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  • June 20, 2002 | The Recorder

    Big Firms, Diverse Practice Areas Lure Crosby Lawyers

    In the midst of a bid to become a state heavyweight and a future national player, Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May finds itself coping with the loss of 13 partners in the l

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  • July 3, 2006 | Law.com

    Contact High

    Most lawyers receive e-mails from people in their firm looking for a contact at an organization being pitched for new business. Many of those e-mails go unread, and valuable information is pot

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  • September 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Am Law Firms Help Stryker Sew Up MAKO for $1.65 Billion

    UPDATE, 9/26/13, 5:25 p.m. EDT: Willkie Farr & Gallagher corporate partners Steven Seidman and Laura Delanoy represented Citigroup in its role as financial

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  • October 21, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Softer landings for Heller's IP associates

    SAN FRANCISCO — Associates specializing in intellectual property or patents for now-defunct Heller Ehrman have fared better than most of their former peers in securing new jobs, wit

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  • August 25, 2009 | National Law Journal

    After boutique split, two find new home at McCarter & English

    After leaving the Boston intellectual property boutique formerly called Bromberg & Sunstein over a dispute about whether to merge with a bigger firm, co-founder Lee Bromberg and partn

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