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  • April 23, 2007 | The Recorder

    Chasing Paper

    How's this for a fun idea? Take the most complicated, time-consuming kind of lawsuits out there � patent cases � and make them even more difficult.How? Try burying the judge in discove

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  • April 9, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Fired Employee's Retaliation Claim Proceeds Against Hotel

    A former hotel doorman who claims to suffer from narcolepsy and who was fired by one hotel for sleeping on the job can sue a second employer for retaliatory discharge, a federal judge has rule

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  • March 1, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Seed Money

    Few miles down route I-70 from Monsanto Company's headquarters in suburban St. Louis, there's a heavily guarded research campus. It's home to more than 250 laboratories where Monsanto raises c

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  • January 2, 2008 | Legal Times

    American Capital Strategies From the Outside In

    Samuel A. Flax is executive vice president and general counsel of American Capital Strategies, based in Bethesda, Md.Can you talk about what the company does?Our primary bus

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  • March 10, 2004 | Alm

    Company Sues Supplier in Asbestos Case

    Two big-city attorneys are scheduled to face off later this month in a courtroom in Angleton, Texas -- a small Gulf Coast community that has been friendly to plaintiffs in the past -- to begin

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  • November 12, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Federal Circuit: Prosecution delay makes patent unenforceable only when there is prejudice

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that an applicant's lengthy delay in prosecuting a patent makes the patent unenforceable only if there is prejudice to other parties.

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  • September 30, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Shareholder Suits Face Uncertainty, Higher Hurdles

    The bailouts and bankruptcies of some of Wall Street's most prominent financial firms could hinder the claims of plaintiffs who have filed shareholder lawsuits against those companies. Also,

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  • May 4, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Accolades

    Henry J. Scudder, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, will be presented the Law Day 2010 Award at a ceremony tomorrow at the Hilton New York

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  • May 12, 2009 | The Recorder

    Taking IP Fights to Trial

    Yahoo Inc. headed to trial in Texas on Monday against patent holding company Creative Internet Advertising Corp. — and if it feels like the very first time, it's because the last time the In

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Courting a Jury

    For all of the hype these days over enormous jury verdicts -- including the record $1.5 billion judgement against Microsoft Corp. in March -- few juries ever decide a patent dispute. The huge stake

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