Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%

Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.

Search


Court Watch
October 29, 2009
Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.
Media & Communications Corner: Every Law Firm Should Be a Media Company
October 29, 2009
It's time to take a leap and leave behind your firm's entrenched identity as a legal services provider: to succeed, you must start thinking of your firm as a media company.
<b>Special Issue:</b> The Fifth-Anniversary MLF 50
October 29, 2009
At long last, marketing and communications can take center stage and become the key indicator by which law firms can measure their success ratio.
IP News
October 29, 2009
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
Accepting a 2(f) Registration
October 29, 2009
There are many ways that accepting a 2(f) notation can come back and haunt you once litigation has commenced.
Inequitable Conduct
October 29, 2009
Taking a page from the Federal Circuit's own analysis of the issue, we will examine the who, what, when, where (and why) of the decision in <i>Exergen Corporation v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.</i>
Is the Federal Circuit Playing with Fire?
October 29, 2009
Less than two months before the Supreme Court is scheduled to review the Federal Circuit's <i>en banc</i> decision in <i>In re Bilski</i> that found Bilski's business method claims unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. &sect; 101, the Federal Circuit held in <i>Prometheus Labs., Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Servs.</i> (Fed. Cir. 2009) that claims to a diagnostic method are patent-eligible subject matter. The Federal Circuit reversed the district court's decision and held that Prometheus' personalized medicine claims satisfied the machine or transformation test set out in <i>Bilski</i>.
Franchise Relationships Beyond the Contract
October 28, 2009
Attendees at the 32nd Annual ABA Forum on Franchising were given a timely reminder of the importance of relationships in franchising during a keynote presentation by Greg Nathan, managing director of the Franchise Relationships Institute (Brisbane, Australia).
FTC Reassures Bloggers: Big Brother Isn't Watching
October 28, 2009
Bloggers of the world, relax ' the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") is not out to get you. That was the message from Mary Engle, associate director for advertising practices at the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Revised FTC Guidelines: Blogger Beware
October 28, 2009
Regular readers of blogs and other Internet-based sources of news and information know it's not unusual to see product reviews in these virtual venues. While the reviews sometimes appear to be careful, impartial journalism, other times the writer seems just a bit too enthusiastic about the post's subject matter. Of course, readers have good reasons to question just how impartial the authors of these reviews might be.

MOST POPULAR STORIES