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Movers & Shakers

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Information about the advancement of lawyers in the patent profession.

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Don't Get Caught With Your Patents Down Image

Don't Get Caught With Your Patents Down

Terry Ludlow

Part One of this series discussed the history of licensing and the need to prove infringement. This month's installment addresses patent trolls and the rise of the Asian IP powerhouse.

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Searching for BRICS

John H. Hornickel

The worldwide patenting landscape is undergoing slow but inevitable tectonic shifts. During the first half of this century, the oligopoly of the United States, Europe, and Japan as the source of the vast majority of new ideas will be broken with the rise of innovation concentrated in other nations beyond the Trilateral, as the USPTO, EPO, and JPO are known.

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Intellectual Property: Currency of the New Economy

Keith Bergelt

This article considers the way in which the capital markets view IP assets and the means by which IP is emerging as the currency of the new economy.

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Five Significant Inter-Generational Relations Blunders

Phyllis Weiss Haserot

Firms are struggling with generational divides because they make the blunders enumerated in this article.

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It's No Coincidence: The Successful Firms Have Strong Management and Leadership Image

It's No Coincidence: The Successful Firms Have Strong Management and Leadership

Robert W. Denney

Nothing is as important to the success of a law firm as strong leadership at the top. Yet, in far too many firms, the partners are still reluctant to give anyone the CEO authority needed for effective management and leadership.

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Advancing Women in Law Firms

Jennifer Bluestein

This article lays the groundwork for those in power to learn how they can help women lawyers succeed.

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Forfeiture-for-Competition Agreements

Wayne N. Outten & Mark R. Humowiecki

Law firms are constrained by professional ethics in how they address the issues of lawyer mobility. Rule 5.6 of the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility expressly prohibits lawyers from entering into agreements that restrict their right to practice, including covenants not to compete. The overwhelming majority of jurisdictions interpret the rule to preclude less direct restrictions on competition, including financial penalties known as 'forfeiture-for-competition' agreements.

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