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February 01, 2007 |

IP's Brave New World

Over 2.5 million people have visited the online virtual world, Second Life. Instead of showy graphics and rapid-fire gameplay, Second Life offers its players something unique: intellectual property rights over their own creations within the world. But how are IP rights enforced in a virtual world? Real-life (and virtual) attorney Philip Cooper and others are now working to formalize online arbitration as a required first step in Second Life disputes, without resorting to real courts and their costs.
15 minute read
Apple Gets Support From Old Foe in Injunction Bid
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Nokia's lawyers told the Federal Circuit that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh "imposed an overly-strict and undue burden on the patent holder and invented new law out of whole cloth" in her ruling denying Apple a sales ban against Samsung.

October 05, 2012 |

Defending Big Data

Corporations eager to exploit their massive customer data risk alienating consumers and regulators if they stumble on privacy and security.
15 minute read
November 23, 2005 |

Is the Magic Circle Becoming the Tragic Circle?

From 1998 through 2001, U.K.-headquartered law firms had astonishingly high growth rates. The last three years have been less kind, and firms are trying to hold on to these gains by the skin of their teeth. The largest and most lucrative mergers and acquisitions deals in Europe are being cherry-picked by U.S. firms, and Europe has seen neither a rise in U.S.-style litigation nor the volume of corporate meltdowns handled by their American counterparts. Partha Bose analyzes who will survive -- and how.
18 minute read
October 17, 2001 |

Legal and Business Issues Associated With Using 'Bots' for Supply Chain Management

The catalyst for a paradigm shift in business processes and protocol is what is known as "Supply Chain Management," which embodies contract management as one key component. The likely use of electronic agents or "bots" to facilitate transactions under this scheme compels lawyers to understand SCM and the role of bots in the process.
13 minute read
November 21, 2012 |

Deal Lawyers Mostly Mum on HP's Ill-Fated Autonomy Acquisition

Hewlett-Packard is asking regulators in the U.S. and the U.K. to investigate financial improprieties involving British software company Autonomy, which HP acquired for $11.1 billion last year. Perhaps not surprisingly, calls to the lead in-house and external lawyers on the deal yielded mostly silence.
8 minute read
November 21, 2012 |

Deal Lawyers Mostly Mum on HP's Ill-Fated Autonomy Acquisition

Hewlett-Packard is asking regulators in the U.S. and the U.K. to investigate financial improprieties involving British software company Autonomy, which HP acquired for $11.1 billion last year. A total of seven Am Law 100 and international firms advised the two companies on a merger that HP now claims will cost it $8.8 billion due to "accounting improprieties" and "outright misrepresentations" on the part of Autonomy. Perhaps not surprisingly, The Am Law Daily's calls to the lead in-house and external lawyers on the deal—the largest-ever in the legal technology sector—yielded mostly silence.
8 minute read
April 24, 2007 |

Problems With the Patent System: Nothing Cash Can't Cure

A new patent reform bill was introduced in Congress on April 18, and the lobbyists are circling. Some points receive nearly unanimous support -- the Patent and Trademark Office is overburdened, and it's time for America to dump its unique first-to-invent system for the first-to-file system common in the rest of the world -- but others are the subject of hot debate. High-tech companies are spending more than ever to convince legislators that change is good, but what's really needed depends on who you ask.
9 minute read
December 08, 2000 |

Face-Off!

With major league sports in full bloom, Corporate Counselinvited the leagues' top legal officers and a few sports law specialists to their own skirmish. From drug testing and salary caps to the challenges posed by the Internet, a handful of lawyers spoke about the sparks that fly when business and law collide with America's favorite pastimes.
14 minute read
August 02, 2006 |

'Hamdan,' And The Rest

In a normal year, Hamdanalone would have been sufficient to make the 2005-06 U.S. Supreme Court term historical, but, of course, it was not a normal year.
19 minute read

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