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Class Action Lessons from Wal-Mart v. Dukes

Scott Burnett Smith & Andrew L. Brasher

The Supreme Court's decision in <i>Wal-Mart v. Dukes</i> draws bright lines that will redound to businesses' benefit and limit the size and scope of class actions in the future.

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Nigeria: An FCPA Minefield for Corporations

David Elesinmogun, Obumneme Egwuatu & Marcus Cohen

Corruption remains a fact of life in Nigeria ' a fact that has not been lost on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

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Developments in Indian Anti-Corruption Legislation

Paul R. Berger, Steven S. Michaels & Aaron M. Tidman

While U.S. authorities have stepped up FCPA enforcement to an unprecedented level, India, the world's largest democracy and second largest country by population, finds itself among the forefront of countries working to rid themselves of corrupt transactions.

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The SEC Whistleblower Incentives Program

Kurt Wolfe

This article examines how the SEC plans to use the powerful new incentives to draw out would-be whistleblowers, and how it plans to sort through and make use of whistleblower complaints.

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Music Published on Internet Ruled 'U.S. Work'

Julie Kay

A Finnish record company's claim that pop music producer Timbaland and pop star Nelly Furtado plagiarized its music was recently thrown out of court by a Miami federal magistrate.

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Protecting IP Rights in a New gTLD World

Elisa Cooper

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international body governing Internet naming and addressing practices, approved in June a plan that allows for a virtually unlimited number of new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs), including new non-English, character-set international domain names. Companies concerned with protecting intellectual property rights have two ways to address the issue &mdash; to the right of the dot and to the left of the dot.

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IP News

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg & Wyatt Delfino

Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.

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Patent Reform May Not Cure a Potential for Bias Against Patentee in Inter Partes Re-examination

Leslie A. McDonell

This article explores a perceived bias against the patent holder in <i>inter partes</i> re-examination as well as the effect that patent reform legislation may have on the process.

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