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Legal Lessons Gleaned from Music Industry’s High-Profile, File-Sharing Litigation
Entertainment Law & Finance
When the cash-strapped recording industry announced at the end of 2008 that it would largely drop its aggressive litigation campaign against unauthorized file sharers, some observers saw this as a defeat for record labels. But numerous court rulings have been issued over the past few years that debate and/or establish legal guidelines that will be referenced in file-sharer cases that are either still in the pipeline or may later crop up.

Virgin Advantage from a New, Near-Shore Corporate Frontier
e-Commerce Law & Strategy
With bona fides now suitably established, is it possible to actively leverage the USVI’s fiber and bandwidth assets to deliver greater competitive and stakeholder advantage to the enterprise? Yes it is; an economic development program chartered in law by the USVI government may be of particular interest to e-commerce and other knowledge-based businesses.

Ninth Circuit Finds No First Amendment Violation in Teacher’s Demotion over Blog Comments
Internet Law & Strategy
Delivering a blow to bloggers’ rights, a federal appeals court has ruled that a Washington state teacher’s blog attacking co-workers, the union and the school district was not protected speech, and therefore she was not unlawfully demoted over it.

Damage Calculations Post eBay: The Economic Considerations
Patent Strategy & Management
This article provides an overview of how various courts have dealt with the question of post-verdict compensation in the wake of the eBay Inc. v. MercExchange L.L.C. verdict.

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Kubin and Permissibility of the ‘Obvious to Try’ Standard
Urged by the Supreme Court’s opinion in KSR, the Federal Circuit has addressed its precedent regarding the obvious-to-try standard, positively stating a standard implied in its previous holdings.

Takeda v. Mylan: High-Cost Generic Drugs from Baseless Paragraph IV Certifications
In Takeda v. Mylan, the Federal Circuit revisited attorney fees in the context of an ANDA application. In doing so, the court provided additional guidance regarding factual circumstances that may support such awards and addressed several of the unanswered questions from the Yamanouchi v. Danbury opinion.

Foreign Defendants: Alternative Service via e-Mail
Federal courts are increasingly allowing litigants to serve foreign defendants via e-mail under certain circumstances.

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Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.

Movers & Shakers
Who's doing what; who's going where.

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