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The Finer Points of Using LinkedIn
All about creating a profile that works.
Smart Phones Require 'Smart' Employers
e-Commerce employers must be especially "smart" about employee smart-phone use and the problems it can bring if acceptable use isn't spelled out. Unfortunately, few employers fully consider the various issues these high-tech gadgets pose, such as overtime compensation dangers, security risks and offensive blunders in etiquette.
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Combination Drug Patents in the Post-KSR World
In this article, we survey post-<i>KSR</i> decisions in an effort to assess what impact, if any, <i>KSR</i> may have had on the patentability/validity of combination drug therapies.
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Recommendation Marketing Through Evolving Social Media Channels
In one of its more insidious forms, recommendation marketing can involve a marketer paying Internet users to post disingenuous positive product reviews at online retailers' sites, also called astroturfing, in which advertisers or their agents pretend to be unaffiliated consumers, and spread misleading or false information to advance the advertiser's objectives.
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