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Business Reality And The Law: Equal Issues For Experienced Counsel
Editor: Please tell our readers about your background and experience. Neyman: I attended Cornell University for undergraduate studies, then Boston University School of Law. I started my professional career in 1994 as an ADA at the Berkshire County District Attorney’s office, handling...
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Science And The Law Are Equal Partners In IP Practice
Editor: Tell our readers about your background and current practice. Davis: I started out as an organic chemist, having earned a chemistry degree from Swarthmore College and a PhD from Johns Hopkins. I worked in industry for five years before deciding to go to law school at Case Western Reserve...
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When Doing Business In China, Hire A Seasoned Practitioner!
Editor: Mr. Lewin, please describe your broad practice and how it relates specifically to protection of intellectual property rights in China. Lewin: My practice breaks down into three areas: (1) major case litigation in various parts of the world, particularly the United States; (2) second,...
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Does The America Invents Act Spell The Demise Of The Patent Troll?
Editor: Please describe your practice area. Is there a concentration of McCarter’s IP practice in the Hartford office? Grondahl: My own practice is a nearly even split of prosecution and patent litigation. The firm as a whole has over 70 IP attorneys, and in Hartford we have eight IP/IT...
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Navigating The Complex World Of Defense Exports
Editor: Please describe the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) authority to regulate export items under its International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) authority. Hadzismajlovic: The statutory authority comes from the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (AECA...
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U.S. Supreme Court Upends Bayh-Dole - Federal Contractors And Grant Recipients Must Tie Up Employee Inventions Or Risk Losing Right To Retain Ownership Of Inventions Developed With Federal Funds
Pop Quiz: When The Government Pays For Know-How, Who Owns It?You're Wrong. It's Not The Government. A fundamental understanding shared by both new recipients of federal research and development funds and some of its most experienced grant recipients and contractors is that if the...
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The Brave New World Of Predictive Coding
Editor: In its July interview, Recommind states that it has developed patented technology that achieves high levels of savings in e-discovery and in other applications. What are your general reactions? Faccone: The development of a program such as Recommind's is extremely important, but it...
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