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Patent Audits And Internal Invention Surveys: 7 Strategies, 33 Tactical Steps, And 2 Benchmarks
Both the corporate management and investment communities increasingly recognize that building and exploiting a strong corporate patent portfolio increases shareholder value.Recent empirical studies have shown for the first time that for both large cap S&P 500 index companies and new tech start...
Read MoreChina Passes New Labor Contract Law In Effort To Achieve Its Goal Of Maintaining A "Harmonious Society"
The comprehensive Labor Contract Law (LCL) was passed on June 29, 2007 by the Chinese Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (the highest legislative body in China) and will take effect starting January 1, 2008.Although the LCL includes some provisions that have appeared in the...
Read MoreLCJ's Associate Member Law Firms Support Corporate Counsel Goals - The E-Discovery Example
Editor: How long have you been associated with LCJ? Dawson: I went to my first meeting as a guest in 2003 and later that year the firm joined the LCJ network. We liked LCJ's commitment to civil justice reform. At that time, LCJ was at the forefront of seeking federal rules that would take into...
Read MoreThe World Justice Project: The American Bar Association's Multidisciplinary Initiative To Advance The Rule Of Law
Editor: Mr. Neukom, would you tell our readers something about your professional experience? Neukom: I have been practicing law for 40 years in Seattle. For almost 25 of those years I had the opportunity to serve as lead counsel for Microsoft Corporation, and for 17 of those years I was the...
Read MoreK&L Gates' Securities Enforcement Manual: A Guide To Navigating The Securites Enforcement Process
Editor: Mr. Missal, would you tell our readers something about your professional experience? Missal: I started my career in the SEC's Division of Enforcement in 1983. One of my most noteworthy cases involved the prosecution of R. Foster Winans, the former Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote...
Read MoreUsing "Special e-Discovery Counsel" To Gain A Litigation Edge
Discovery in commercial litigation is increasingly focused on records stored in electronic form. News reports of evidentiary "smoking guns" are plentiful, including a $229 million punitive damages award against a pharmaceutical company whose employee estimated that amount of revenue would result...
Read MoreSea Changes In Our Patent System: Has The Pendulum Reversed? - Part II
Part I of this article appeared in the June issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. Part 1 of this two-part article examined several recent Supreme Court decisions that portend a less hospitable climate for patent holders by making it more difficult to obtain and to sustain the validity of...
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