• August 9, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Supreme Court to Tackle Trademark Fair Use Next Term

    Must a defendant demonstrate an absence of likelihood of confusion when asserting a fair use defense to trademark infringement? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has answered thi

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  • July 20, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Bankruptcy Practice

    When a company nears insolvency, its board of directors is faced with difficult choices and decisions. One question that the board faces is whether to cut the company's losses and liquidate it

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  • July 12, 2011 | The Recorder

    Apple's Chief Patent Counsel Leaving By Year's End

    SAN FRANCISCO — When Richard "Chip" Lutton became Apple Inc.'s chief patent counsel 10 years ago, the company was only filing about two dozen patent applications a year.

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  • December 24, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Lance A. Bowling has joined McGlinchey Stafford as a commercial litigation of counsel in Houston. . . . Haven Masse

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  • January 21, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Tentative Settlement On the eve of a scheduled federal trial, events unfolded that led to a tentative settlement in a case about oil leases that involved three big Texas firms: Ba

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  • December 4, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Employment Law

    Eleven years ago we first wrote about the surprising volume of litigation arising out of employer-sponsored holiday parties. We pointed to many common fact patterns that formed the basis of em

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  • June 1, 2008 |

    UniRAM Technology v. Taiwan Semiconductor

    Manufacturing UniRAM Technology Inc. continued its winning ways against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., racking up two more victories in April in its trade secret litigation over dynamic ra

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  • January 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Federal Circuit lets Microsoft Flee East Texas

    Last May, Stanford Law professor Mark Lemley published a study on IP forum shopping. The study's most surprising finding: the U.S. district court for the Eastern District of Texas isn't among the f

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  • January 26, 2004 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible: John Kerry; Morrison & Foerster; and More

    KERRY WIN RE-ENERGIZES BACKERS IN D.C.The surprising win in the Iowa caucus by John Kerry has breathed new life into his presidential campaign and galvanized the D.

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  • January 9, 2007 | Legal Times

    Judges Look to Clerks With Experience

    WASHINGTON — Julia Kiraly doesn't fit the profile of a judicial clerk, the Ivy Leaguer who jumps directly from law school to a judge's chambers. After hopscotching from Venable to Hogan &

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