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What Your Firm Can Learn from Toyota Image

What Your Firm Can Learn from Toyota

Paul Silverman

Any adjustments we can make to our management style using LEAN processing techniques can significantly beef up a firm's bottom line.

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Law Firm Survival: Tough Economic Times Call for Sound Management Image

Law Firm Survival: Tough Economic Times Call for Sound Management

Spencer Barback & Rick Hayden

There are steps firms can take — many in the areas of accounting and financial planning — to best ensure that they emerge from the current economic slump just as strong as when they entered it.

Exchange Rate Fluctuation in the Context of Partner Remuneration at the Global Firms Image

Exchange Rate Fluctuation in the Context of Partner Remuneration at the Global Firms

Michael Roch & Clive Zickel

Foreign exchange issues can present problems in the partner remuneration context. Various internal methods can be employed, however, to successfully address the challenges.

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IP News

Matthew Berkowitz & J. Ryan Yates

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

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Attacking the Customer: Coercing Patent Infringers While Avoiding Exposure to DJ Actions Image

Attacking the Customer: Coercing Patent Infringers While Avoiding Exposure to DJ Actions

Patrick Fay & Aaron Marx

To avoid declaratory judgment actions, patent holders may opt to sue or threaten the purchasers of an allegedly infringing product, without threatening suit against the manufacturer. In effect, the patent holder coerces the manufacturing company to give up the right to manufacture or distribute the accused product by scaring off its customers. At what point does this activity create grounds for a declaratory judgment action by the manufacturer?

Proveris Scientific Corp. v. Innovasystems, Inc.: Federal Circuit Addresses 'Safe-Harbor' Immunity Image

Proveris Scientific Corp. v. Innovasystems, Inc.: Federal Circuit Addresses 'Safe-Harbor' Immunity

Megan M. O'Laughlin

In <i>Proveris Scientific Corp. v. Innovasystems, Inc.,</i> the Federal Circuit addressed whether the "safe-harbor" provision of the Hatch-Waxman Act applies to immunize infringement if the accused product is reasonably related to the development and submission of information to the FDA for regulatory approval purposes.

The Federal Circuit Attempts to Right the Inequitable Conduct Ship Image

The Federal Circuit Attempts to Right the Inequitable Conduct Ship

Darryl J. Adams

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has long maintained a high bar for proving inequitable conduct. This high bar is appropriate given the severity of the remedy &mdash; unenforceability of the entire patent &mdash; and the relative ease of using hindsight to find fault with the prosecution of a patent. Several recent decisions, however, have pointed toward a sinking standard for proving inequitable conduct, which has created an atmosphere of uncertainty about the proper scope of the inequitable conduct defense. The Federal Circuit's recent opinion on the subject, <i>Star Scientific, Inc. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.,</i> appears to be an attempt to right the ship by reiterating the standards for proving inequitable conduct that were established more than 20 years ago.

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'Bump Messages' Ruled Not Republication

Kate Fazzini

Bump messages" ' messages posted to Internet forums for the purpose of moving older message threads to a more prominent spot on the page ' do not constitute "republication" of an allegedly defamatory statement, a New York state judge has concluded.

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Online Promotion of FDA-Regulated Products

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

One area that continues to surface is the use of chat rooms, blogs, and other venues by which users of the Web site, whether the company's or a third-party site supported by the FDA-regulated company, can exchange experiences about medical treatments, comment on the company or competitor's products, or otherwise share information. Some companies may provide such forums on their own Web sites to amass the information for market research or generate goodwill. Other companies may engage a third-party site to control the dissemination of information and even disclaim responsibility for the content by giving an unrestricted grant and allowing the third party to run and control the information posted on the Web site.

Web 2.0: Don't Miss The Big Picture Image

Web 2.0: Don't Miss The Big Picture

Jay M. Jaffe

Web 2.0 is more than merely an upgrade of Web 1.0; rather, it is an evolutionary step toward a major change to the practice of law ' and the end of the bricks-and-mortar world of law firms as we know them today.

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