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

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

In CyberSource v. Retail Decisions, 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. § 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 Beauregard claim, did not satisfy § 101.

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.

Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

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.

A look at a recent key ruling.