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A price charged by a franchisee that is too low can adversely affect other franchisees and the franchisor by discouraging the provision of pre- and post-sale services, eroding brand image and jeopardizing the ability to introduce new products by depressing price points. Although relatively rare, a franchisee also may cause marketplace problems by charging too high a price for an attractive, new product in great demand.
When the U.S. Supreme Court 25 years ago decided <i>Basic, Inc. v. Levinson</i>, it adopted a legal theory that commentators would describe as revolutionizing securities law in the United States. By accepting the "fraud-on-the-market" theory, the <i>Basic</i> Court made it much easier for plaintiffs to get their cases certified as class actions, increasing the potential exposure of corporations and their officers and directors.
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When is a sale a sale? This question is much more than semantics or a deep philosophical debate that college accounting majors have over a nice cold keg of Mountain Dew. Many an executive or business owner has gone to jail over this issue.
Television's old guard finally opened a hole in Aereo Inc.'s armor last month, winning a ruling that left the Internet TV upstart and its lawyers fighting to limit the damage ahead of arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in April.
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It is (high) time to rewrite and modernize the law that regulates access to our private communications and to the detailed information those communications automatically create.
Over the past decade, the volume of data in litigation and investigations has exponentially increased. As data has become more and more vulnerable to subpoenas and regulators, people have become singularly concerned with making relevance decisions for production. In the process, we have forgotten about focusing on the facts themselves and uncovering the stories within data.
Despite the active hostility of the Chinese, Indian and Russian governments, the spread of bitcoins throughout the world was untrammeled until last month. In a series of dramatic arrests and prosecutions, the U.S. government began an active campaign against the use of bitcoins for questionable purposes.
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Supreme Court Overturns Burden-Shift in Non-Infringement Judgment <br>Federal Circuit Clarifies Rules for Patent Term Extension<br>Federal Circuit Confirms That All Members of a Priority Chain Must Recite Full Lineage
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President Barack Obama's administration on Feb. 12 released its much-anticipated voluntary cybersecurity framework, giving U.S. companies a common handbook on how they can try to fend off hackers.
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For nearly a decade ICANN has been working on a plan to expand the Internet. That process is underway right now, and the expansion will be taking place in just a few months as a slew of top level domains like .nyc, .apple, .citi, .green, .apple, .app, .llc, .club and hundreds more will be going live in the next few months.