Because the core technology of a good idea is critical to a company’s future, it must be vigorously protected at inception. Entrepreneurs need to grasp the basics of how patent protection works and select which “great” idea to use first in building a company from the ground up.
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Technologies disruptive to traditional law are also growth opportunities for law firms that change the way approach law and embrace new opportunities to differentiate themselves from their peers. Consultants Susan Letterman White and Rex M. Holmlin share insights to set your firm apart.
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The online-only law reviews that sprang up a decade ago at Rutgers law schools in Newark, N.J., and Camden are entering the blogosphere. The Rutgers Law Record is inviting readers to post comments, in the hopes that submissions become departure points for further discussion.
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A recent decision in Kansas federal court stands at odds with a major goal of Federal Rule of Evidence 502 — reducing the cost of electronic discovery through the endorsement of “quick peek” and “clawback” agreements in those cases in which the parties jointly agreed to such procedures.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A New Jersey judge on Wednesday ordered a $450,000 reduction in a pain and suffering award for an Accutane inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) plaintiff but denied motions for judgment as a matter of law or a new trial in her case and two other cases (In Re: Accutane Litigation, No. […]
BOSTON - Stryker Biotech LLC and four current or former executives were indicted Oct. 28 on federal criminal charges of conspiracy, making false statements, wire fraud and misbranding in connection with off-label promotion of two of its bone repair products (United States of America v. Stryker Biotech, LLC, et al., No. n/a, D. Mass.).
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NEW YORK - Exxon Mobil Corp. said Oct. 27 that it reached a $17.5 million settlement with plaintiffs in 50 actions alleging methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) contamination in their water supplies in the multidistrict litigation court based in New York (In re: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Products Liability Litigation, No. 1:00-1898, MDL 1358; Village […]
OWENSBORO, Ky. - A Kentucky woman who submitted a claim as part of a civil rights class action lawsuit nearly nine months after the claims deadline can still file her claim because of excusable neglect, a federal judge in Kentucky ruled Oct. 13 (Edward Lee Sutton, et al. v. Hopkins County, Ky., et al., No. […]
MISSOULA, Mont. - In the first bisphosphonate case to go to verdict, a Montana state court jury on Oct. 21 awarded a plaintiff $3.2 million after finding that Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. was negligent in failing to warn her doctors of the risks of its Zometa bone-loss prevention drug and causing her osteonecrosis of the jaw […]
NEW YORK - A jury in the MTBE multidistrict litigation court on Oct. 19 held Exxon Mobil Corp. liable for contaminating the city’s drinking water with the gasoline additive and awarded the city of New York $105 million in compensatory damages (In re: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Products Liability Litigation, No. 1:00-1898, MDL 1358, City […]