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Law Firms Woo Silicon Alley Start-Ups
An increasing number of New York firms are marketing themselves to fledgling Silicon Alley start-ups, in the hopes they will one day become high-tech powerhouses that generate significant billings. The recent Venture Downtown financing conference in NY was a case study in how firms are building brand-name recognition.Cybersquatting Suit Bears Fruit for Winery
For two years, Houston's Spider Webs bought "real estate" on the information superhighway, registering Internet domain names for $70 each, then selling to the highest bidder. But the company got tangled in its own web. A federal judge in Houston ordered Spider Webs to transfer ernestandjulio.com to E. & J. Gallo Winery and pay $25,000 in damages under the federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.After studying dozens of entries, the magazine selects the fifth firm to receive this honor for its litigation achievements. Five other firms were named as finalists.
Judge Lucy Koh on Monday decided that she couldn't issue permanent injunctions against 26 Samsung products that a federal jury found violated Apple's patents. Her order applies a heightened standard established by the Federal Circuit that requires patentholders to show a direct link between lost market-share and a specific infringing feature of a competitor's product.
Wal-Mart janitors try again to bring class action suit over wages, hours
Just months after a federal judge decertified a class action suit charging retail giant Wal-Mart with complicity in janitorial contractors' abuses of illegal aliens, a second attempt has been filed, one that looks suspiciously like the first.On Friday Wilmer's Bill Lee and Kathleen Sullivan of Quinn Emanuel squared off for Apple and Samsung, bringing the debate over what standard should apply to permanent injunctions in tech cases to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
With opposition to "patent trolls" running at an all-time high, the White House pressed ahead Tuesday with reforms that could help undermine the troll business model. Many tech companies hailed the proposals as overdue, but some patent-holders warned that the reforms could hurt the economy in the long run.
Patent Protection Provides Long-Term Net Strategy
In State Street, the Federal Circuit definitively denounced the long-held business-method exception to patentability. Has this landmark decision created an opportunity for pioneering e-commerce companies to limit competition by making it illegal for others to adopt their proprietary computer-implemented business methods?Trending Stories
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