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Do Not Pass Go? U.S. Supreme Court to Review Federal Circuit's Finding of Justiciability
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Miami Agrees to Settle Costly Island Development Dispute After Losing Key Ruling Breach of Lease By Subsidiary Does Not Justify Piercing Corporate Veil Tenant Not Entitled to Preliminary Injunction Requiring Landlord to Co-Operate
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Court of Appeals Upholds Rent Overcharge Class Action
Can tenants maintain a class action against landlords asserting a pattern and practice of illegal conduct when the various plaintiff tenants have been injured by different forms of allegedly wrongful conduct?
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Real Property Law
Statute of Limitations Did Not Bar Foreclosure Action Nuisance Claim Arising Out of Environmental Remediation Not Barred By Statute of Limitations Mortgage Contingency Clause Did Not Give Buyer Right to Cancel Mortgagor Did Not Prove Damages Arising Out of RESPA Violation Questions of Fact Preclude Summary Judgment on Whether Adverse Possession Extinguished Easement
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Patenting Diagnostic Tests: Can We Expect Changes?
This article discusses the jurisprudence applied to determining patent eligibility of claims for diagnostic methods, and the expectation for changes in analysis of patent eligibility under §101 in the near future.
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Safeguarding Your Intellectual Property
Documents are the lifeblood of any law firm. The documents that a firm produces are its greatest asset, especially the intellectual property — trade secrets, patent information, etc. — contained in those documents, yet firms historically have not made sufficient efforts to safeguard those documents from both internal and external threats.
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