Several issues face those migrating from traditional document management systems to Matter-Centric Content Management Architectures. This first part of a two-part will series will review some of the key ones for IT professionals.
Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.
It is becoming increasingly common for franchise companies to acquire their competitors. Predictably, the franchisees of the acquired system often will feel threatened and take legal action.
The first two installments discussed how 7-Eleven, Inc. ("7-Eleven" or the "Company") planned for and developed a new franchise agreement to offer to all of its 3400 franchised stores in the United States. In this final article, we will critique the results by analyzing the final terms and discussing the principal issue that was not resolved to all parties' satisfaction. We will also discuss two important issues that must be resolved in any such undertaking and the Company's approach to them, as well as provide recommendations for future efforts of this nature.
Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
Companies involved with technologies that use components located both within and outside the United States will be interested in a recent decision in the patent infringement action brought by NTP, Inc. ("NTP") against Research In Motion, Ltd. ("RIM"). In August 2005, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit distinguished between infringement of "system" and "method" patent claims in "out of country" situations. The Federal Circuit held that if a component is located outside the United States, a system claim would be infringed if there is beneficial use of the patented system in the United States, while a method claim would not be infringed.
Ambush marketing," a term coined by Jerry Wexler, manager of global marketing efforts for American Express in the 1980s, refers to the marketing activities of companies that manage to associate themselves, or their products or services, with high-profile events without paying to become an "official sponsor.
On Sept. 7, 2005, the Federal Circuit issued a hard-hitting decision for mavens of the agricultural sciences. The ruling touches on the patentability of a large portion of naturally occurring, protein encoding nucleotide sequences, referred to as "expressed sequence tags" or "ESTs."
Highlights of the latest commercial leasing cases from around the country.
