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Professional Development: The One Thing You Must Do in Your Marketing Image

Professional Development: The One Thing You Must Do in Your Marketing

Sara Holtz

If you fail to keep in touch with your prospects on a regular basis, your business development efforts will likely fall short of your hoped-for results.

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The Place to Network: What's So Good About Hosting an Event? Image

The Place to Network: What's So Good About Hosting an Event?

Timothy B. Corcoran

The intent of this column is to provide a framework for identifying the relative benefits of hosting an event. How can we turn an event into a means for generating revenue?

The Business of Branding: Put Some Poetry in Your Marketing Image

The Business of Branding: Put Some Poetry in Your Marketing

Sean Leenaerts

How you say something is as important as what you say. If content is king, then delivery is its scepter, crown and cape.

Technology in Marketing: Google+. Rethinks Online Privacy Image

Technology in Marketing: Google+. Rethinks Online Privacy

Jay Jaffe

There's a fairly robust legal community developing on Google+. Here's what you need to know.

CyberSource: Machines Executing Processes and the Computer-Readable Medium Image

CyberSource: Machines Executing Processes and the Computer-Readable Medium

Brian Avery

In <i>CyberSource v. Retail Decisions</i>, a panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's summary judgment ruling that the asserted patent claims were invalid under 35 U.S.C. &sect; 101, and held that purely mental processes are unpatentable abstract ideas. The court decided that merely limiting an unpatentable mental process to a computer-readable medium for execution on a processor, in a so-called <i>Beauregard</i> claim, did not satisfy &sect; 101.

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How the New Patent Act Will Affect the Way Counsel Practice and Advise Their Clients Image

How the New Patent Act Will Affect the Way Counsel Practice and Advise Their Clients

Larry. A. Roberts

The America Invents Act, passed by Congress on Sept. 9, 2011, and signed into law on Sept. 16, 2011, imposes sweeping changes to U.S. patent law. This article focuses on how the new patent laws will require patent practitioners to change the way they practice and advise their clients.

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October issue in PDF format

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New Briefs

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.

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Court Watch

Charles G. Miller & Darryl A. Hart

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

Fighting Encroachment Claims with Clear Contract Language Image

Fighting Encroachment Claims with Clear Contract Language

Jay W. Schlosser

Two relatively recent court decisions addressing the common franchise issue of encroachment re-confirm the importance of carefully drafting each provision in a franchise agreement and shed some additional light on how courts will view and address encroachment claims going forward.

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