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'Who's Your Daddy?'
A roundeup of recent paternity and custody cases and what they portend in current matrimonial law.
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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
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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RIAA Tempers Tactics
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
Recent litigation of interest to you and your practice.
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Product Liability Litigation
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
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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