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In-House IP Lawyers May Lose Key Job
Are intellectual property lawyers missing out on the new "new thing"? Patent guru Kevin Rivette says they are. Rivette says many members of the intellectual property bar often are overlooked when companies seek candidates for positions that are new in the corporate world: managers of intellectual property assets.Fujitsu Limited and its lawyers at Orrick failed on Thursday to knock out trade secret counterclaims brought by rival optical communications company Tellabs Operations Inc., represented by Sidley Austin.
Watching the Tech-Media Whirlwind
Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner Kenneth Steinthal is at the center of the latest copyright battle to pit traditional media against content distribution companies. He's defending YouTube in a case over whether the company has a responsibility to police its millions of postings against demands of an irate copyright holder. Steinthal litigated far trickier issues back when online copyright law enforcement was emerging, and has built a practice at the forefront of the convergence of content and technology.Justices Apply Copyright First-Sale Doctrine to Foreign Goods
Libraries, museums, retailers and others who buy copyrighted goods made abroad can resell them without violating federal copyright law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday.Proposed Patent Reform Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Congress recently took up patent reform, with several hearings during the past few months and a joint House-Senate bill offered in April. The common goal of most of the proposed changes is to make it easier for decision-makers to reject patents, usually on the basis of "prior art." This may seem like a good idea: Its proponents claim it will cut costs and eliminate patents on things that are already being done. But on closer inspection, it creates more problems than it solves.Twitter user list favors Dems in Calif. gov race
SACRAMENTO, Calif. AP - When people sign up for Twitter, the popular social-networking site presents a list of suggested users to follow, driving significant traffic to sports figures, celebrities, politicians and other prominent posters.In California, the list has attracted the attention of political watchdogs because it apparently favors Democrats over Republicans in next year's race for governor.Bear Stearns shareholders OK buyout by JPMorgan
NEW YORK AP - Bear Stearns shareholders have approved JPMorgan Chase's $2.2 billion buyout, ending the saga of the 85-year-old pillar of Wall Street that crumbled under the weight of its own wagers on high-risk mortgages.The tumult is far from over, however, for JPMorgan Chase Co. - which now must mesh Bear Stearns' maverick culture with its own - and the thousands of workers affected by the takeover.Commentary: Firm free thinkers owe a credit to Craig Johnson
All Craig Johnson wanted to talk about was the acorn. It was in November 2004, just after the upstart Venture Law Group that he had started a decade earlier had merged with Heller, Ehrman, White McAuliffe. Johnson had just returned from a bicycling trip in China and was settling into his new space at Heller's Silicon Valley office.Trending Stories
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