• March 6, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Bid to Halt Blue Cross Conversion Rejected

    A MANHATTAN judge yesterday rejected a consumer group's challenges to Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield's conversion to a public company, but gave the group an outline for a viable legal theor

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  • June 7, 2005 | The Recorder

    Patent Dispute Pits Cisco Against StorageTek

    Storage Technology Corp. has been busy. Last week it inked a $4.1 billion deal to be acquired by Sun Microsystems Inc., and on Monday came closing arguments in a patent infringement case again

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  • August 23, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    21 to watch: On the Rise 2004

    Profile stories of Gayle M. Abramson, Carla E. Brown, Christopher Carpenter, Christopher M. Carr, Kristin M. Childers, Hakim Hilliard, Ajay K. Jindia, Michael D. Johnson, William H. Jordan, A

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  • January 6, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Texas Supreme Court OKs Abortion Funding Restrictions

    In a decision that has been pending for more than a year, the Texas Supreme Court held on Dec. 31, 2002, that the Texas Medicaid program's restrictions on funding for "medically necessary" abo

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  • April 2, 2003 | The Recorder

    Coming to Terms

    Soon after getting an offer to sell their 12-year-old audio book business in 1996, Michael and Deborah Raffin Viner retained corporate transactional lawyer Charles Sweet to negotiate a deal fo

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  • November 6, 2000 | Alm

    Business Method Patent Claim Revived by Federal Circuit

    In a closely watched patent lawsuit involving e-commerce, a federal appeals court last week ruled for a patent holder and against a group of mostly software companies.The case, Inte

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  • December 13, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    With Clock Ticking, Settlement Money Dwindling

    "One of the issues is, how does a summer associate define quality?" says Stephanie Donaho, Locke Liddell's hiring partner. Austin's 3rd Court of Appeals heard arguments more than three

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  • January 16, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    A New Test for Conception of Biotech Inventions?

    F YOU REPRESENT inventors of biotechnology inventions, you may need to take another look at the law of conception. In its recent ruling in Hitzeman v. Rutter, 243 F.3d 1345 (Fed. Cir. 2001),

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  • January 31, 2007 | The Recorder

    Valley Buzzes With IP Privilege Debate

    Silicon Valley tech companies routinely receive letters telling them they might be infringing on someone else's patents. Quantum Corp. in San Jose is no exception."When you're a tech c

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  • April 1, 2003 | The Recorder

    Coming to Terms

    Soon after getting an offer to sell their 12-year-old audio book business in 1996, Michael and Deborah Raffin Viner retained corporate transactional lawyer Charles Sweet to negotiate a deal fo

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