Intellectual Property

Biotechnology | Healthcare | Life Sciences

Blaine Templeman | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

What is the crashing noise so many pharmaceutical companies are hearing these days? Some say it is the sound of key products going over the “patent cliff.” The press has focused recently on the number of blockbuster drugs that are coming off or have come off patent. The news has...

Technology

Theodore C. Max | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

What Is Reality? In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel, Snow Crash,[1] humans battle each other as avatars in the “Metaverse,” the collective product of online shared three‑dimensional space.[2] While Stephenson's “Metaverse,” created by all...

Technology | Telecommunications

Jeffrey D. Neuburger | Proskauer

Editor: As co-head of Proskauer’s Technology, Media and Communications Group and a member of the Privacy & Data Security Group, your practice covers many different areas. Please describe these broad areas. Neuburger: The practice is quite diverse, generally covering the use of...