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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
September 24, 2007 |

Strategies for Content-Hosting Web Sites

Although the large-scale communication on the popular Web site YouTube effectively spreads information, copyright owners believe it directly infringes their rights. From YouTube's perspective, taking steps to prevent the posting of potentially infringing content could destroy its business model. The U.S. Copyright Act may provide a critical solution to this dilemma. The act provides a statutory "safe harbor" that potentially protects content-hosting service providers from liability to copyright owners.
18 minute read
January 31, 2000 |

In-house IP Lawyers May Lose Key Job

8 minute read
August 18, 2008 |

Municipal Law

Jeffrey D. Friedlander, first assistant corporation counsel of the city of New York, writes that over the years, the city has accumulated valuable rights in symbols or logos, databases and other forms of intellectual property created by or on behalf of city agencies, the use of which was monitored and managed mainly by individual agencies. In 2003, use of city intellectual property was substantially reorganized to maximize the value of this resource for the people of the city and the Law Department assumed a major role in advising city agencies in such matters.
15 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
May 30, 2012 |

Facebook's Friend

How Fenwick & West landed the world's most high-profile IPO.
13 minute read
October 07, 2009 |

Fed. Circuit Chief: Let Us Handle Fixes

Hoping to stave off congressional action, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is pressing lawyers to push for more cases that force the court to address fundamental patent questions.
8 minute read
October 08, 2007 |

CHART: Who Represented Big Tech

10 minute read
October 01, 2006 |

Quick Draw

Raymond Niro sues first, settles fast, and collects millions. But as the enemies pile up and the imitators take on his work, can the good times last?
13 minute read

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