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IP Storm Awaits Microsoft/Yahoo

Zusha Elinson

If Microsoft can conquer Yahoo with its blustery takeover bid, there may still be another storm on the horizon over intellectual property. The two companies' views about what should be shared and what should be kept proprietary have been as different as Yahoo's sunny Silicon Valley and Microsoft's dreary Seattle.

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ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

A look at recent rulings of importance.

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Patent Troll Blogger Sued for Defamation

Brenda Sapino Jeffreys, John Council & Miriam Rozen

The moral of this story is 'Blogger Beware,' at least when it comes to blogging anonymously about litigation involving your employer. Before Cisco Systems Inc. in-house lawyer Richard Frenkel outed himself in February as the Patent Troll Tracker blogger, he posted blog entries in October 2007 that alleged two East Texas lawyers conspired with the Eastern District Clerk's Office to alter the filing date of an infringement suit. That suit was filed against Frenkel's employer, Cisco.

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Cooperatives & Condominiums

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

In-depth analysis of recent rulings.

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<b><i>Product Review:</b></i> Abbyy FineReader OCR 9.0: Experience Efficiency Image

<b><i>Product Review:</b></i> Abbyy FineReader OCR 9.0: Experience Efficiency

Alan Pearlman

One of the basic challenges to law firms since the advent of the PC has always been how to convert paper documents into a searchable or editable electronic format. I have been using a product for many years that has continued to improve itself with each new version. I am speaking of Abbyy FineReader OCR 9.0, which comes in two editions, Corporate and Professional.

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<b><i>Product Review:</b></i> Wave Software Enhances Its Trident Suite

Jason Park

The upgrades seen with version 4.5 (or the third prong of the Trident) include the 'loose file' handling capability that many electronic discovery professionals have been requesting.

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Communication Is Key to e-Discovery Success

Michael Feldman

The recent lawsuits filed by Sullivan &amp; Cromwell and Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. against one another brought to the forefront some of the frustrations that law firms and the vendors to which they outsource are currently experiencing. So how do you get legal professionals at law firms, e-discovery and staffing vendors to function harmoniously in order to minimize problems?

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Judges Take Notice of Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Marvin N. Bagwell

Just in case you missed it, here is the most recent addition to the list of famous last words: "Your honor, you just don't understand how things work." According to press reports, that is how Judge Christopher A. Boyko of the Federal District Court in Cleveland, OH, characterized the foreclosing lender's counsel response to the judge's request for proof that the lender, Deutsche Bank, actually owned the 14 unpaid mortgages that the lender was asking the court to foreclose.

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Hot Tips for Effective e-Discovery Review

Rich Wersinger

Effective electronic discovery review requires careful planning and project team training in order to ensure timelines are met, critical evidence is not missed (or inadvertently produced), and that resulting production sets meet both requesting party and court requirements. Following are three scenarios and approaches that can be applied to ensure success on future e-discovery engagements.

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Declaring Digital Documents As Records

Eric Mosca

Many law firms have joined the quest to go 'paperless.' This holy grail of efficiency and order in the digital age has been touted for years as being just over the horizon. The answer to the question 'how do we get there?' has been just as elusive. In a world where so many attorneys and support staff still rely on hard copy versions of documents, the only way to quickly go paperless has involved massive amounts of document imaging, even when many of the documents being scanned originated in an electronic format.

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