LJN Newsletters

Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

It's time to take a leap and leave behind your firm's entrenched identity as a legal services provider: to succeed, you must start thinking of your firm as a media company.

At long last, marketing and communications can take center stage and become the key indicator by which law firms can measure their success ratio.

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

There are many ways that accepting a 2(f) notation can come back and haunt you once litigation has commenced.

Taking a page from the Federal Circuit's own analysis of the issue, we will examine the who, what, when, where (and why) of the decision in Exergen Corporation v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Less than two months before the Supreme Court is scheduled to review the Federal Circuit's en banc decision in In re Bilski that found Bilski's business method claims unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101, the Federal Circuit held in Prometheus Labs., Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Servs. (Fed. Cir. 2009) that claims to a diagnostic method are patent-eligible subject matter. The Federal Circuit reversed the district court's decision and held that Prometheus' personalized medicine claims satisfied the machine or transformation test set out in Bilski.