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Silicon Valley Pioneer Folds Office
Brown & Bain, once one of the Silicon Valley's leading intellectual property litigation firms, is closing its Palo Alto office at the end of July. The decision, which comes after years of setbacks for the office, ends a 20-year run in the Valley for a firm that waged landmark IP wars on behalf of Apple Computer Inc. and Intel Corp.
Four Del. Firms Raise First-Year Salaries to $145K
Slightly less than one year after the last associate pay hike in Delaware, four Wilmington firms have raised their salaries again. Morris Nichols, Young Conaway and Richards Layton first-year associates went from $135,000 to $145,000, and at Potter Anderson, all associates received a $10,000 increase. "Wilmington is not New York; nonetheless, we do want to remain competitive" with such recent pay increases in New York as Simpson Thacher's boost to $160,000, says Greg Williams, president of Richards Layton.
Thompson & Knight Lawyer Fashions 'Project Runway' Video Game Deal
Thompson & Knight partner J. Holt Foster has handled video game transactions for many years, but the high-profile deal he just negotiated for Tornado Studios stands out from the pack because it features a photo shoot instead of a shoot-'em-up. Foster helped the company ink a video game development and publishing license agreement for a game based on "Project Runway," a reality television show starring Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn. The game will be released in the spring of 2010 in the Nintendo Wii format.New Gloss on Trade Secret Statements
California's Fourth District rules that when judges seek more particular descriptions of the trade secrets at issue, they're not abusing their discretion.Most Calif. Firms Still Not Matching N.Y. Associates� Pay
More California-based firms are opting for a segmented associate salary scale, hiking pay to a $160,000 base in their New York offices but implementing a $145,000 scale in California.Transactional Bad, Litigation Good
Firms on Texas Lawyer's "100 Largest Firms in Texas" poster had a total of 11,711 attorneys compared to 11,615 attorneys in 2002 -- a .8 percent increase. That compares to a 5 percent increase in total attorneys from 2001 to 2002.Intel Strikes Out With Patent Cases
The world's largest computer chipmaker struck out twice last week on a pair of patent cases. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel had claimed in separate cases that Broadcom Corp. and Via Technologies had infringed patents related to video and networking technology. The victory was not only sweet for Broadcom and Via, but also for Palo Alto, Calif.'s Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, which represented both companies.
The Patent Office: Getting Wiki With It
In August, when the Patent and Trademark Office said that it had removed Wikipedia from its list of acceptable research sources, the surprise was not that the Web site had been banished, but that examiners had been using it at all. To its fans, Wikipedia is remarkable: a gigantic, up-to-the-minute encyclopedia to which any user can contribute. To its detractors, it's a mish-mash of misinformation. Meanwhile, the PTO has not banned other Web sites where content is easily modified -- and not always accurate.Trending Stories
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