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  • February 21, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

    How the Other Half Lives

    The primary theme in this year's survey of in-house technology is how law departments get their big-firm outside counsel to do their bidding, at least when it comes to technology. We wondered, how

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  • March 18, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Federal Circuit Erects High Standard for False Labeling Complaints

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit outlined a high pleading standard for plaintiffs filing lawsuits against companies for falsely labeling their products as covered by patents. br

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  • July 14, 2006 | The Recorder

    GCs Turn Up Heat on Diversity

    Wal-Mart Store Inc.'s General Counsel Thomas Mars doesn't kid around when it comes to diversity: He said he fired two law firms outright last year for not taking the company's diversity initia

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  • May 1, 2007 |

    Nothing Cash Can't Cure

    Micron Technology Inc., one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, knows a thing or two about communication. Its chips are in cell phones, wireless devices, and computers worldwide. Bu

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  • February 14, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    U.S. Supreme Court Drives Patent Law Reform

    When it comes to patent reform, the U.S. Supreme Court is a surer bet than Congress — at least in producing results. Consider this: Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee reporte

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  • March 1, 2007 |

    IMMUNE BOOSTER

    Patent licensing relationships often feel like an intellectual property soap opera, chock-full of dirty fights, drawn-out negotiations, and complicated back stories. In January, two U.S. Supreme Co

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  • August 5, 2009 | The Recorder

    Calif. Supreme Court Narrows Workplace Privacy

    Employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the workplace, the California Supreme Court held Monday, but that right has limits. And it doesn't prevent employers from conducting some hidde

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  • July 23, 2003 | Legal Times

    Gathering Storm

    "If you're a business and you haven't yet been sued under this law, don't worry, you will be."That's the dire prediction from Competitive Enterprise Institute President Fred Smith abou

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  • April 6, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    In Wake of Circuit's Ruling, Whistleblower Suits Surge

    A recent federal appellate decision has unleashed a wave of whistleblower suits accusing companies of falsely labeling their products as covered by patents. In December, a U.S. Court of Appe

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  • July 1, 2008 |

    THE REEXAMINATION GAMBLE

    Requesting a reexamination of a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office?questioning whether a patent should have been granted in the first place?was until recently an arcane administrative p

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