Federal Circuit: A Computer Database Logical Model Is Not an Abstract Idea If Directed At a Specific Implementation of a Solution to a Problem In the Software Arts
Federal Circuit: In Claim Construction Analysis, Plain Term Meanings and Presumption of Claim Differentiation Get Outweighed By Intrinsic Evidence and Prosecution History
- June 01, 2016Howard J. Shire and Daniel Shea
Buy-sell agreements are arrangements between owners of a business where one or more owners agree that they will purchase the interest of an owner who withdraws or becomes deceased. Essentially, a buy-sell agreement is similar to prenuptial agreement between business owners, which details the financial aspect of the unwinding of the business relationship.
June 01, 2016Clyde Tinnen and Patricia M. LeeOne of the motivations for enacting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was the acknowledgement by Congress of "the ease with which pirates could copy and distribute a copyrightable work in digital form was overwhelming the capacity of conventional copyright enforcement to find and enjoin unlawfully copied material." Among the provisions created to redress this rampant infringement were the prohibitions against: 1) removing copyright management information (CMI); and 2) circumventing technological measures in place to prevent infringement. Each is controversial.
June 01, 2016Richard Raysman and Peter BrownA look at a co-op shareholder's action for a judgment that the co-operative corporation and its board breached obligations under the proprietary lease by unreasonably withholding consent to alterations.
June 01, 2016Textualism" in statutory interpretation ' generally speaking, a focus on the objective meaning of statutory language in context ' has now become an essential feature of this pattern.
June 01, 2016Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan SackThis article is a follow-up to the author's September, 2015, review of best practices for obtaining spousal guaranties in equipment financing transactions in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Hawkins v. Community Bank of Raymore.
June 01, 2016Dennis A. DresslerDiscussion of several key news items that affect med mal practitioners.
June 01, 2016The whole purpose behind the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), adopted, for example, as Article 5-b of the New York Family Court Act (FCA), is to make the process uniform, cheap and easy to register and enforce support judgments from different states. But what about a cross-border award?
June 01, 2016Seth Lapidow, Michael Rowe and Heidi TallentireThis article provides a broad overview of cyber security challenges, and the insurance coverage (or lack thereof) for the financial impact of those cyber security challenges.
June 01, 2016Ann Marie Petrey and Eric LeibowitzThe old-school term is Client Satisfaction. It's been replaced with Client Delight, which is defined as beyond satisfaction. No matter what you call it, best-in-class client service is where it's at ' and where it will be going for some years to come.
June 01, 2016Bruce D. Heintz

