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Hospital LIability for Medical Research Studies
Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy
Your hospital and physicians have the opportunity to conduct a study on a new method for the early detection of a disease. They go through the necessary procedures of obtaining patients at risk for the disease, and those patients knowingly agree to participate in the program. However, there may be one problem with this scenario.

Nanotechnology: Law and Business at One-Billionth of a Meter
LJN's Product Liability Law & Strategy
Nanotechnology represents a vast frontier for science, business, and law. Already governments and corporations are sinking an estimated $10 billion annually into nanotechnology R&D. The plaintiff’s bar, mass torts, and class actions cannot be too far behind such words.

Intellectual Property: Currency of the New Economy
Patent Strategy & Management
This article considers the way in which the capital markets view IP assets and the means by which IP is emerging as the currency of the new economy.

The Changing Landscape of Divorce
New York Family Law Monthly
There are noticeable new trends in divorce that affect both the legal process and the financial strategies required to help clients move past it.

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Filing Time for Copyright Suits Bars Profit Claim
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit decided that the three-year federal statute of limitations for copyright suits, rather than a longer state limitations period for accounting actions, applied to a complaint for a portion of profits from figurines, including “The Merry Wanderer,” derived from the book “Das Hummel-Buch.”

Microsoft Sues Auction Site Users For Counterfeiting
Microsoft is moving against alleged counterfeiters who use online auction sites like PriceGrabber.com and eBay to sell software that is packaged to look like the real thing, but is far from it.

Pleading Standards in Patent Litigation After Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, a recent Supreme Court decision which addressed the sufficiency of pleadings for a claim under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, has prompted defendants in a wide variety of actions, including patent cases, to file motions urging district courts to apply the “new” Twombly pleading standard to dismiss the actions against them.

Mental Illness and the ADA
A potentially dangerous situation employers struggle to understand arises when an employer neither knows nor recognizes an employee’s mental disability, and has cause to terminate that employee, but, prior to termination, discovers the disability. This article discusses the pitfalls and solutions.