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'Who's Your Daddy?'

Mary Cushing Doherty

A roundeup of recent paternity and custody cases and what they portend in current matrimonial law.

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Case Notes

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Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.

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The Golden Rule of Biological Inventions And the Written Description Requirement

Stefan M. Miller

In an ideal world, a business would have a patent practitioner everywhere at once: in the lab, in the office, and in the boardroom. The purpose of this article is to interpret a sphere of patent law related to the description of biological inventions in terms that are practical for researchers and business managers in the biotech industry who live in a non-ideal world.

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Real Property Law

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Analysis of recent rulings.

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Development

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

A look at recent rulings of importance.

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RIAA Tempers Tactics

Eric R. Chad & William D. Schultz

In December, the RIAA announced that it would no longer look to file suit against individual file sharers and instead form relationships with ISPs that maintain the online accounts of the consumers.

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Case Notes

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent litigation of interest to you and your practice.

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Product Liability Litigation

Sheila T. Kerwin

The different ' sometimes even higher ' product standards required by non-American countries can adversely affect product protection here in the United States, as plaintiff's attorneys can use these discrepancies to their advantage in litigation against product manufacturers.

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Preemption Beyond Drugs and Medical Devices

Daniel J. Herling

Although the issue of Federal Preemption has grabbed the headlines in medical device and pharmaceutical cases, those analyzing preemption's impact on plaintiff's failure-to-warn claims on other types of products that are subject to federal regulation are significant for their varied results.

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Trial Tactics in Psychiatrist Liability Cases

Joshua D. Koskoff

The average juror may not be aware of the extent of mental-health professionals' duty to protect innocent third parties from their dangerous patients, and they may be reluctant to hold these professionals responsible. Following are some strategies that will help to get the plaintiff's point of view across to the fact finder.

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