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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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The SEC Whistleblower Incentives Program
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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
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 — to the right of the dot and to the left of the dot.
IP News
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
Patent Reform May Not Cure a Potential for Bias Against Patentee in Inter Partes Re-examination
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