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Technology Deals

Reviewed by Al Driver. He was assisted by Ardin Marchetta, an intern and third year student at Lafayette College.Want To Use Your Intellectual Property To Best Advantage? Make Sure You Read This Book Technology Deals is the much anticipated sequel to the classic works by Glazier Patent Strategies...

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Leonardo, Lingerie And George Of The Jungle: Practical Considerations In Trademarks And Licensing

Trademarks play an increasingly important role in most businesses, yet many companies still deal with them on an ad hoc basis. There are a number of areas companies can focus on to maximize the value of their trademarks. Brand management encompasses everything from providing basic guidelines on...

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D&O Insurance: Do You Really Have It?

The headlines are packed with references to high profile corporate scandals, including the recent Enron, Tyco, and Martha Stewart scandals. Couple this media frenzy with the enormous increase in securities class actions, and the directors and officers of corporations appear to have become some of...

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New England And Boston - Law Firms Homeland Security: The Massachusetts Advantage

This article describes some of the significant commercial opportunities created by the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), with a focus on the unique advantages centered in Massachusetts.In addition, the article provides practical tips on doing business with the government.Finally, the...

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Restoration And Redevelopment Of Urban Rivers: Averting A Paradigm Shift

I. Introduction For years, attention has been focused on returning old abandoned industrial properties to productive use.These "Brownfields" properties are common throughout the industrialized areas of the country.In 1987, the United States Government Accounting Office estimated that anywhere...

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Is Your Hospital Board Vulnerable?

The duties, responsibilities and failures of institutional directors and boards of directors have never been more focused in the public's eye. Failures and scandals have raised questions of the roles of boards and how they undertake and discharge their duties. We continue to read of corporate...

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Is Your European Patent Strategy Still On Course? Recent Law Changes And Parliamentary Action Suggest New Approaches

Those of us who entered the patent field when intellectual property law was viewed as an obscure legal backwater might have been somewhat amused by the recent spirited debate about software patent protection in the European Parliament, but for the alarming amendments to the text of the software...

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