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Focused on More Productivity and Higher Profits?
Turning time into money begins with the metrics a firm has in place, whether the key performance indicators are being measured and tracked, and how technology is being leveraged to streamline the entire process. technology plays a vital role in not only monitoring and 'policing' these metrics, but financial management and billing technology in particular, can always be tweaked and customized to better firm metrics ' especially as they relate to firm utilization, realization, and A/R aging.
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Successful Data Migration
When corporate legal and IT departments deploy new enterprise software, migrating legacy data into the new system is usually one of the larger challenges faced. When it comes to e-discovery software, this challenge is exasperated as matter information may be contained in legacy systems or in a collection of spreadsheets or other ad hoc tools.
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IP News
Highlights of the latest intellectual property cases from around the country.
Right to Privacy: Do You Have Standing?
The legal framework of data privacy, though certainly in flux, has come a long way over the past few decades. Given a recent New York court decision, perhaps we should consider another right one might reasonably associate with privacy: the right of standing.
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Court Battles over Digital Television Distribution
Aereo Inc.'s pitch is this: With one of its tiny antennas, no bigger than a dime, viewers can watch television through the Internet. But this is erupting into a litigation nightmare for broadcasters. The fight boils down to whether the broadcasters' copyrights for their shows give them control over how the shows are distributed.
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The NLRB's Assault On Companies' Social Media Policies
This article discusses the NLRB's views on social media policies, through two recent NLRB decisions, and the eyes of the NLRB's General Counsel and its Administrative Law Judges.
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Display in Musical of Clip from 'Ed Sullivan' Show Was Fair Use
In <i>SOFA Entertainment, Inc. v. Dodger Productions, Inc.</i>, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered whether it was "fair use" under the Copyright Act for the award-winning musical "<i>Jersey Boys</i>" to use a seven-second clip of Ed Sullivan's introduction of the Four Seasons rock band on "<i>The Ed Sullivan Show</i>" that aired in 1966.
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Google Pays $7 Million to Settle Privacy Breach
A settlement was announced in charges against Google Inc. for collecting data from people's homes. Under the agreement, Google will pay $7 million to 38 states. The terms of the settlement were announced by Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, whose office led a privacy task force investigating Google for unauthorized collection of data using its 'Street View' vehicles. The company agreed to change its corporate practices regarding privacy.
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Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Can Apply Without Common Ownership
In <i>In re Hubbell</i>, the Federal Circuit held that obviousness-type double patenting applies when conflicting patent applications share common inventors, even if they lack common ownership. That is, complete identity of inventors or common ownership is not required for the Patent Office to impose an obviousness-type double patenting rejection.
Federal Regulators Issue Guidance on Social Media and Mobile Privacy
In a sign of the role new technology is playing in existing business models, two federal regulators recently released guidance covering two rapidly expanding technology markets: social media and mobile technology.
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