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  • June 13, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Justices Reject Human Gene Patents; Fallout May Be Limited

    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-eligible. 

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  • August 29, 2005 |

    The California 25

    California may be the Golden State but some of that gold seems to be moving elsewhere when it comes to the revenues and rankings of the nation's largest law firms.Not that California's

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  • February 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Patently Successful

    Seven years ago, ann Cathcart Chaplin, then a fourth-year associate at Fish & Richardson, sat in a conference room in Michigan, waiting to depose a witness in a patent infringemen

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  • December 14, 2007 | The Recorder

    EBay IP Guru's Next Step

    Jay Monahan has been blazing trails in the Wild West that is Internet IP law. After eight eventful years as the top intellectual property lawyer at eBay, his new horizon is a video-sharing startup

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  • July 2, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Techies

    COMPANY PROFILE If you wanted to build an impenetrable space shield capable of destroying flocks of incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles, who wou

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  • July 1, 2003 | The Recorder

    Bay Area Backslide

    Hammered by the sour stock market and dismal economy, California's elite technology firms continued their

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  • August 7, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Don't Blame LSAT For Dearth Of Minorities

    Advocates for diversity in the legal profession have long identified the Law School Admission Test as a major barrier to black and Hispanic law school applicants because on average they scor

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  • October 1, 2007 | The Recorder

    Silicon Valley Sees Hot Day in the In-House Market

    General counsel Donald Rosenberg's sudden exit from Apple Inc. shook Silicon Valley Friday -- as did the news that his high-profile replacement is Oracle Corp.'s Daniel Cooperman.But legal o

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  • December 18, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Not BlackBerry-Treo

    NAME AND TITLE: Mary E. Doyle, senior vice president and general counsel GRAFFITI ARTISTS: Palm Inc., a leader in the hand-held computer industry, got its start in

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  • June 13, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Supreme Court Voids Human Gene Patents

    Reversing decades of federal patent awards, the U.S. Supreme Court last week unanimously ruled that human genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligible.The ruling inv

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