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Client Feedback: Have You Taken It To The Next Level?

Donald E. Aronson & Bruce D. Heintz

Is it possible that your firm has gone as far as it can with its present approaches to client feedback ' that is, surveys conducted either by written/Web questionnaires, by telephone interviews or by in-person interviews? Has the value received reached a plateau and are you now experiencing diminishing returns? If so, isn't now the time for your firm to be exploring ways to take client feedback to the next level ' especially with the firm's largest and most valued clients?

Note From The Editor

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Well it's a new year and I am hoping that it will be an exciting one. This year in addition to the MLF 50, which is open to firms of 100 attorneys or more,…

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The Market Power Presumption Revisited: Court to Consider Whether Patents Confer Market Power in Tying Cases

Paul A. Ragusa

Antitrust law has long prohibited producers with market power from engaging in tying arrangements, agreements in which the sale of a highly desired "tying" product is conditioned on the purchase of a second item. The Supreme Court has held that sellers must exert power over the marketplace to be guilty of illegal tying under the Sherman Act. Does the existence of a patent on a product create a presumption of market power? On June 20, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in <i>Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc.</i>, 2005 WL 770269, *1 (U.S.) (2005) to consider this question.

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IP News

Compiled by Eric Agovino & Shane Cortesi

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

The Third Circuit Carves Out New Real Estate for Itself: A New Standard for Nominative Fair Use in the Trademark Context

Erin S. Hennessy

A trademark identifies the source of a particular good or service, and trademark law seeks to protect against a third party's use of a mark that "is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive" as to source. 15 U.S.C. '1114(1). That is, certain aspects of trademark law "preven[t] producers from free-riding on their rivals' marks." <i>New Kids on the Block v. News America Publishing, Inc.</i>, 971 F.2d 302, 305, (9th Cir. 1992).

Damage Dilemma: Conflicting Standards for Disgorging Trademark Infringer's Profits

Joseph F. Schmidt

Is willfulness a prerequisite for recovering a defendant's profits under 35 U.S.C. &sect;1117(a) for infringing a registered mark or for violations under Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act? Maybe. It depends on the circuit in which the case is decided, but it shouldn't. The substantive rights and remedies under the Lanham Act should be uniformly interpreted throughout the nation. This is especially so with respect to monetary remedies in view of the Trademark Amendments Act of 1999, which should have, but did not, resolve this issue.

Video Games Update

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Recent developments in video game cases and law.

Internet Piracy Update

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Recent cases in Internet piracy of to the entertainment law community.

Cameo Clips

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Recent cases in entertainment law.

<b>Decision of Note:</b> Court Jurisdiction Over Accountants In Film-Deal Suit

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled it had personal jurisdiction over accountants allegedly in-volved in a scheme to defraud in a film-production investment.

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