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  • June 13, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Supreme Court Rejects Human Gene Patents in 'Myriad' Ruling

    WASHINGTON — Reversing decades of federal patent awards, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that human genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligibl

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  • October 21, 2013 | The Recorder

    Boutique Targets Video Game Industry

    After a year of rapid growth, Goldberg, Lowenstein & Weatherwax wants to become a player in the video game industry. The boutique firm, founded by three Irell & Manella alums

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  • April 3, 2012 | The Recorder

    Facebook signals it's ready for patent battle with Yahoo countersuit

     Facebook Inc. has signaled it's ready for a patent battle. Yahoo Inc. sued the social-networking site in March for patent infringement, and lawyers for Facebook fired back Tuesda

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  • April 18, 2013 | The Recorder

    Gibson Dunn Takes Tech Transactions Partner From Sheppard Mullin

    Gibson Dunn has scooped up the chair of Sheppard Mullin's technology transactions group.Partner Shaalu Mehra -- who advises companies on patent portfolio strategy, IP-focused M&A a

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  • July 11, 2007 | The Recorder

    Are Big Firms Warming Up to Alternative Fee Deals?

    Looking down the barrel of a threatening patent infringement action from Sanyo, Chinese cell phone battery maker BYD wanted the IP heavyweights at Howrey -- but not their heavy rates. The A

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  • August 22, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Judge Rejects Settlement Between Facebook, Users

     A federal judge threw out a proposed settlement between Facebook and its users over claims that the social networking giant illegally sold ads containing users' likenesses, citing probl

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  • December 30, 2002 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    MCDERMOTT, WILL & EMERY Nicholas Koberstein has joined the D.C. office of McDermott, Will & Emery as a partner in the firm's antitrust practice group. Koberstein,

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  • MHC Financing Limited Partnership v. City of San Rafael

    Publication Date: 2013-04-17
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    Date Filed: 2013-04-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Vaughn R. Walker, District Judge, Presiding Before: Jerome Farris, Sidney R. Thomas, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Bradford (argued), Barry Levenstam, Lisa T. Scruggs, and Bradley M. Yusim, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants­-Appellants.
    for defendant: Michael von Loewenfeldt (argued) and James M. Wagstaffe, Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, San Francisco, California; Robert F. Epstein, Ragghianti Freitas LLP, San Rafael, California, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee-Appellee City of San Rafael. Gordon C. Atkinson (argued), Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant-Cross-Appellee-Appellee Contempo Marin Homeowners Association. R.S. Radford, Pacific Legal Foundation Sacramento, California, for Amicus Curiae Pacific Legal Foundation. Elliot L. Bien and Amy E. Margolin, Bien & Summers, Novato, California, for Amicus Curiae Western Manufactured Housing Association. Andrew W. Schwartz, Fran M. Layton, Matthew D. Zinn, and Amanda R. Garcia, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties. Bruce E. Stanton, Law Offices of Bruce E. Stanton, San Jose, California, for Amicus Curiae Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners' League, Inc.
    Case Number: No. 07-15982 No. 09-16447 No. 09-16451 No. 09-16612 No. 09-16613

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 3839MHC FINANCING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, an Illinois limited partnership; GRAPELAND VISTAS, INC., a California corporation, Plaintiff

  • August 11, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Genetic Information

    The ink is barely dry on new employment laws before summaries, citations and warnings land in corporate e-mails around the country. So too with "GINA," the a target="new" href

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  • US v. Joseph P. Collins, 10-1048-cr

    Publication Date: 2012-01-11
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Calabresi, Chin, and Carney, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Christopher L. Garcia, Assistant United States Attorney (Justin S. Weddle, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: William J. Schwartz (Jonathan P. Bach, Jason M. Koral, Reed A. Smith, Kathleen E. Cassidy, on the brief), Cooley LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae New York Council of Defense Lawyers: Barry A. Bohrer, Alexandra A.E. Shapiro, Marc E. Isserles. For Amicus Curiae Atlantic Legal Foundation: Jack C. Auspitz, LaShann M. DeArcy, Amy J. Phillips, Martin Sander Kaufman.
    Case Number: 10-1048-cr

    Cite as: US v. Joseph P. Collins, 10-1048-cr, NYLJ 1202537905466, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided January 9, 2012)Before: Calabresi, Chin, and Carney, C.JJ.p