Alan Cohen

August 08, 2002 | Law.com

Cardiac stents are revolutionary not so much for what they do -- repair clogged arteries -- but for how they do it. The stent procedure, introduced in 1994, requires just a small incision and can be done on an outpatient basis, making it far less expensive than open-heart surgery.

By Alan Cohen

2 minute read

August 08, 2002 | Law.com

Protease inhibitors aren't a cure for HIV infection, but they can keep the disease manageable -- and have helped to drastically reduce the number of deaths from AIDS. Protease inhibitors have also called attention to a major criticism of the patentability of life-saving drugs: Manufacturers, using patents, can set prices so high the drugs can't be obtained by many of the people who need them.

By Alan Cohen

2 minute read

August 08, 2002 | Law.com

Embryonic stem cells are as undecided as a college freshman. They can become virtually any type of human tissue, and they pick their major pretty quickly -- roughly a week after an embryo is created. James Thomson's breakthrough was in finding a way to isolate and maintain stem cells to keep them from differentiating.

By Alan Cohen

2 minute read

July 03, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Thomas Fleming is an old-school librarian who has learned a few new tricks. The director of information resources management at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, Fleming is just as likely to be researching the credit ratings of prospective clients — helping the firm decide whether it should take them on, or ask for a bigger retainer — as he is to be tracking down treatises on tax law.

By ALAN COHEN

4 minute read

August 08, 2002 | Law.com

The editors of IP Worldwidetook a different approach to this year's list of most valuable patents. Instead of picking patents that have made big bucks, they picked patents that have made a big difference.

By Alan Cohen

2 minute read

November 01, 2011 | The American Lawyer

The results of The American Lawyer's annual survey of law firm technology suggest that how successful firms are in striking a balance between making data accessible and making it secure will help determine how they fare in an anytime-anywhere world.

By Alan Cohen

2 minute read

July 01, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Our intrepid tech-users go mobile, big time--and push their law firms around.

By Alan Cohen

1 minute read

August 08, 2002 | Law.com

Hepatitis B leads to more than 1 million deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization. In the United States, the hepatitis death rate has fallen to 5,000 deaths annually, largely because of an effective vaccine that has become a childhood inoculation in the past decade and a half.

By Alan Cohen

2 minute read

August 08, 2002 | Law.com

The true importance of the State Street Bank patent is not the patent itself, but the case it spawned and the business-method patent revolution that followed. "It means that whatever the next new area is where people say, 'Can you patent this?' State Street Banksays you probably can," says Donald Steinberg, an IP partner at Hale and Dorr.

By Alan Cohen

2 minute read

May 03, 2001 | Law.com

Some gadgets will impress your seatmate; the i-glasses may encourage him to go sit somewhere else. This device -- known as a head-mounted display -- is not subtle. Strap it on and you'll be the biggest nerd on the plane, but you'll have a lot of fun. Plug the glasses into a portable DVD player, and you'll see an 80-inch screen floating 11 feet away. But some things are best not shared with others.

By Alan Cohen

2 minute read