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A Review of the ITC and the Recent Increase In Filings Image

A Review of the ITC and the Recent Increase In Filings

Rel S. Ambrozy & Matthew T. Bailey

Practitioners before the International Trade Commission have noted a substantial increase in the number of filings and Section 337 investigations over the last several years. In addition to providing possible reasons for that substantial increase, this article provides an overview of IP-related investigations at the ITC, and explores the success rate of the complainants over the respondents in the ITC. Finally, this article considers whether the ITC will be "a victim of its own success," following the pattern of the Eastern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia.

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Taming the Tenant's Form of Lease: Common Landlord 'Fixes' Image

Taming the Tenant's Form of Lease: Common Landlord 'Fixes'

Myles Hannan

Part One of this article discussed some of the major landlord "fixes" often required when working from a tenant's form of lease, <i>i.e.</i>, remeasurement, rent, taxes, tenant self-help, default, mitigation, assignment, subordination, and estoppels. This conclusion continues the discussion with additional "fixes."

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The Impact of the Internet on Strict Product Liability Law Image

The Impact of the Internet on Strict Product Liability Law

Sarah L. Olson

Strict product liability emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as a potent force shaping the way product manufacturers do business in America. Although the relevant common law of each state has been modified from time to time since its inception, the basic parameters of the theory have been settled for some time. Now, however, market conditions are changing dramatically, and the law is likely to change with it.

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And on the 46th Day, Who Wins? Image

And on the 46th Day, Who Wins?

Francis X. Buckley, Jr. & Nicholas H. Kappas

This article provides a review of the basic principles of federal tax liens and secured transactions under Article 9 of the UCC ("Article 9") and discusses certain issues that arise with respect to the priority of federal tax liens against certain interest holders under the "45-day rule" of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code").

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What Your Terms and Conditions Tell Your Customers Image

What Your Terms and Conditions Tell Your Customers

Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

What businessperson hasn't complained about how lawyers ruin deals? The simple handshake and bar-napkin agreement too often turns into hundreds of pages of fine print, with hourly billing to match. Yet neither party really knows whether it all actually states the deal as each understood it over handshakes. Sometimes the fallout begins because the contracts are unintelligible to the layman ' not good. Other times, the lawyer may have taken far longer than the deal allowed to write a contract, or simply blew the budget ' also not good. Whatever the cause, these problems lead many businesspeople to wonder whether their lawyers are for them, or against them.

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Ethical Issues of the 21st Century Image

Ethical Issues of the 21st Century

Frederick L. Whitmer & Benjamin D. Goldberg

Why and how a "confidential e-mail" might not be so confidential--and what can ensue when it leaks.

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To Catch an e-Criminal Image

To Catch an e-Criminal

Ken Stasiak & Dave Kennedy

Someone is stealing electronic data from you ' right now. A person your firm or company has trusted for years is doing things that are making you suspect he or she is stealing. You don't know how or with whom, but you know something is wrong. What do you do? Where do you turn? How do you find out for sure?

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New York's Post-Marital Compensation Image

New York's Post-Marital Compensation

Alton L. Abramowitz

Last month, the author discussed the controversial proposal to replace New York's current maintenance scheme with "Post-Marital Income Guidelines." What follows is a critique of the proposed legislation, based in large measure on a report of the Legislative Committee of the Family Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.

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Prevent Your Tenant Mix from Turning Your Property into a 'REC' Image

Prevent Your Tenant Mix from Turning Your Property into a 'REC'

Am'lie H. Mailloux

An increasing number of properties have been and continue to be classified as having some kind of recognized environmental condition. The REC classification arises from the EPA crackdown over the past few decades to ensure that property owners and the parties who are responsible for causing the contamination actually share in the cost and burden of the remediation process.

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Economic Abuse: A Form of Abuse That Needs More Scrutiny Image

Economic Abuse: A Form of Abuse That Needs More Scrutiny

Nancy S. Erickson

Domestic violence is now recognized to be coercive control, whether that control is exercised by physical violence, psychological abuse, or some other type of coercive act. Herein is the conclusion of this discussion.

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