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  • August 16, 2010 | National Law Journal

    No Joint Infringement When Neither Defendant Controls Entire Process

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a ruling that two co-defendant companies did not jointly infringe a patent because neither company controlled the entire infringing proc

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  • April 13, 2009 |

    Q&A: Thomas Lavelle

    Thomas Lavelle is senior vice president and general counsel at Rambus Inc., the Los Altos-based company that designs computer memory chips and related products. Rambus, which derives abo

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  • January 1, 2011 | Focus Europe

    The French Empires

    Gide Loyrette Nouel is the pinot noir of law firms. The most exquisite of wine grapes, pinot grows in small quantities in many regions around the world, but sometimes fails to flourish, and always

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  • September 8, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    License Not Required

    Creators of exchange traded funds do not have a property interest that entitles them to require a license from issuers of options on the funds in a secondary market, a federal judge has ruled.

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  • May 26, 2003 | Legal Times

    Justices to Take on Church-State Fights

    The Supreme Court set the stage on May 19 for its next major church-state battle, agreeing to hear the case of a Washington state man who was denied a state scholarship because he planne

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  • July 16, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Compliance race is on for an industry

    Lawyers with FDA practices are in high demand as the dietary-supplement industry races to comply with sweeping Food and Drug Administration rules governing its manufacturing practices an

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  • March 14, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Howrey partners vote to dissolve the firm

    Partners in the embattled Washington firm Howrey voted on March 9 to dissolve the firm, effective on March 15. "The firm had experienced disappointing financial performance

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  • September 18, 2007 | Legal Times

    Perkins Coie agrees to pay $19 million in malpractice suit

    Perkins Coie reached a multimillion-dollar settlement last month with former client Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, a manufacturer of large newspaper printing presses. The Japanese company sued two o

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  • May 12, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Power player

    Name and title: William A. Von Hoene Jr., executive vice president and general counsel Age: 54 Utilities giant:

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  • April 8, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    On the Job: Moves

    To the Coal Face "Down in the (Megawatt) Valley" for the new top lawyer at the energy company. In North Yorkshire, England, along/span

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