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Decisions such as the recent opinion by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Marvel Worldwide v. Kirby highlight the importance of carefully drafting provisions governing the transfer of rights in new works of authorship.

The Ninth Circuit has now concluded that the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act does not apply to a domain name that is first registered prior to the time the trademark at issue becomes distinctive, even if the domain name is later re-registered by a new owner. However, the Ninth Circuit also held that the ACPA can apply to new domain names registered by the new owner after the mark acquires distinctiveness.

Though long used in trademark, false advertising, and antitrust cases, the use of consumer surveys in patent cases is a relatively recent phenomenon. Counsel responsible for managing patent litigation should understand the potential role that survey evidence can play at trial.

In 2001, Williams found itself in the midst of a painful downturn that ultimately changed the composition of the company's assets and its direction. As such, our legal department was given a corporate mandate to increase our internal services while dramatically reducing our budget, headcount and spending on outside legal services.

As physical security systems become more IT-centric, they are more often being identified as an application on the network and not as a disparate system. Security guards have been replaced by intelligent IP-based enterprise security systems that ideally are tied into the existing IT infrastructure and normally segmented via a VPN.

Measuring service levels, ticket volumes, conversion staffing levels, and user satisfaction are all important aspects of running a successful helpdesk, but only of true value if compared to other metrics, and more importantly, acted upon.

Predictive coding is the latest of several innovations that have fundamentally altered the process of e-discovery, some of them even leading to changes in the Federal Rules. It has become a must-have e-discovery capability.

Who's doing what; who's going where.