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August 05, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Federal Circuit Affirms Invalidity of Lilly Cancer Drug Patent

A three-judge appellate panel has ruled that Detroit federal district court judge George Caram Steeh was correct in deciding on summary judgment that Lilly engaged in double patenting on its billion-dollar cancer drug Gemzar.
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August 01, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Lawyer: Ex-Coke Employee in Trade Secret Case Considered Going Back to Jail

Joya Williams, a former Coca-Cola secretary charged with stealing new product samples from her employer and trying to sell the materials to rival Pepsi, is so despondent she considered returning to jail to be sure of getting food, medicine and shelter, her lawyer said Monday. "She lost everything and she's having a very, very hard emotional time right now to the point of I have grave concerns as to the depths of her despondency," Janice Singer told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
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March 23, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Yeeaah, We Took the Cash Wad: Rio Tinto Workers on Trial in China Admit Taking Bribes

The four employees of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group on trial in China for bribery and infringement of trade secrets admitted Monday to taking bribes from Chinese businesses.
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June 02, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Marvel, Disney Fire Back at Kirby Heirs

In the rock-em, sock-em world of comic book-derived IP, the financial stakes tied to ownership of such classic characters as The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, and the X-Men are truly supernatural.
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June 03, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Benched No Longer: U.S. Soccer Foundation GC in His Own Words

Robert Kaler put aside his Jerry Maguire aspirations for a more philanthropic sports-related career — kicking it as GC of the U.S. Soccer Foundation, the charitable arm of the U.S. Soccer Federation.
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December 14, 2009 | Law.com

NearPoint Archives E-Mail for E-Discovery

The battle for e-discovery continues to march to the left side of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model as today's companies gird themselves with products and services that manage ESI before a lawsuit is considered or filed. Consultant Brett Burney goes "left" with Mimosa NearPoint.
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April 09, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Employee Stock Ownership Plans Put Workers in the Driver's Seat

As private equity continues to dominate the corporate landscape, employee stock ownership plans haven't been shrinking violets. Rather, the number of ESOPs has grown about 20 percent to 9,225 in 2005 from 7,700 in 2000, according to the National Center for Employee Ownership. Consider last week's $8.2 billion deal between Chicago real estate investor Sam Zell and Tribune Co. Zell will invest about $315 million, but majority ownership of Tribune Co. will be transferred to its 20,000 workers through an ESOP.
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December 01, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Patently Up

Despite judges reining in damages awards, patent litigation shows growth.
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February 08, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Clearwell Views E-Discovery With Ease

Why make substantial changes to a successful software platform when you could easily get by with tiny improvements and call it new? That was the question consultant Brett Burney answered as he explored the new processing and review features of Clearwell E-Discovery Platform version 5.0.
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January 06, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Serendipity Leads Attorney From Corporate Consulting to Executive Suite

Kelly C. Abernathy is senior vice president, GC and chief compliance officer at Capital Institutional Services Inc. Unlike many GCs, Abernathy did not move in-house from a firm, nor did she come from a career in securities law. Rather, she came from the corporate consulting world, where she had developed an expertise in compliance from a business angle. On first impression, she says, some people may underestimate her legal abilities, so her strategy is to "disarm them and then knock their socks off."
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