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Social and Mobile Media Games Creation Raise Sensitive Legal Issues for Developers

Eugene Pak

The social and mobile game industry is experiencing rapid growth as thousands of gaming companies and developers make their games available on iTunes, Facebook and other platforms in the hope of launching the next <i>FarmVille</i> or <i>Angry Birds</i>. The popularity of social and mobile games is expected to expand as sales of tablet computers and smartphones rise. In this competitive landscape, it is not uncommon to find new games that are similar to established popular games, even bearing similar names and features.

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In the Marketplace

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.

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Equipment Finance Industry Compensation Increases for Second Consecutive Year

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Sustained economic growth resulted in an increase in compensation among originators in the equipment finance industry in 2011, according to the 2012 Equipment Leasing &amp; Finance Compensation Survey from the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association and the performance reward consulting and benchmarking firm for the financial services sector, McLagan.

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Avoiding the Excess Layers

William P. Shelley & Samantha Evans

Several courts have recently held that an insured bears the burden of demonstrating proper exhaustion of underlying policies, including where multiple policies are involved in a settlement. These decisions have prevented insureds from accessing millions of dollars in excess coverage based on the unambiguous exhaustion language included in the operative excess policies.

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Lender Liability for the Acts of Settlement Agents

Marvin Bagwell

What happens in New York when in the absence of a CPL, the attorney to whom the lender forwarded the funds that were intended to fund a mortgage, misappropriates the lender's funds? Two cases are directly on point.

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Economic Outlook Report

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The Equipment Leasing &amp; Finance Foundation has released the fourth quarter update to its 2012 Equipment Leasing &amp; Finance U.S. Economic Outlook, which projects growth in equipment and software investment for 2012 at 6.7%, down from the 2011 growth rate of 11%.

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Recent Developments in Enforcement of Forum Selection Clauses

Patrick M. Northen

This article highlights several practical tips that will increase the probability that a forum selection clause will be enforced to its maximum effect.

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To Participate or Not to Participate: A Secured Party's Question

Alan M. Christenfeld & Barbara M. Goodstein

This article considers what might happen to a secured claim if the creditor fails, or elects not, to participate in its debtor's bankruptcy case.

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China's Transition to a VAT System

Stanley Kolodziejczak & Nancy Regan

Over the past 12 months, China has begun to transition from a business tax ("BT") system to a Value Added Tax ("VAT") system using Business to Value Added ("B2V") pilot programs. These B2V pilot programs have been introduced in Beijing and Shanghai for certain industries, including legal consulting services.

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Civil Authority Provisions in Property Policies

Sara E. Coury & Seth A. Schmeeckle

Courts have generally interpreted "civil authority" provisions as requiring that access to the insured premises must be made impossible and have consistently resisted attempts by insureds to expand coverage to situations where access to the insured premises is merely made inconvenient.

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