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Battle Lines Sharply Drawn in Viacom's Appeal of U.S. District Judge's Ruling in YouTube Case
Now that the long-simmering copyright dispute between Hollywood and the Web has hit the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the outcome could set a national precedent regarding the scope of potential liability for nearly every business on the Internet that posts infringing content.
Calculating Reasonable Royalty Damages for Indirect Infringement
In two recent cases decided only three weeks apart, the Federal Circuit gave conflicting pronouncements on the issue of whether trial courts can limit damages as a matter of law to proven instances of direct infringement.
Supreme Court 4-4 Split Decision Results in Affirmance on Limitation of First Sale Doctrine
On Dec. 13, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a Ninth Circuit decision limiting the first sale doctrine to copyrighted works manufactured in the United States or sold with the copyright holder's authority.
Social Networking
Not only is social networking taking over how we live, work, communicate and "socialize," it is changing how lawyers litigate and practice law.
SWOT-ting Yourself ' and Your Competition
One tool used by for-profit and non-profit firms alike to plan to achieve specific goals is SWOT analysis. At its most basic level, a firm identifies its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats when decision-makers ' and others, if the process is planned that way ' thinking about how to achieve one goal, or more.
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IP News
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
Fast or Slow?
A threshold question for each patent filing is the speed at which a patent is desired.
New Math for the Entire Market Value Rule
A recent order from the Eastern District of Texas shows that patentees may not be able to calculate damages under the entire market value rule using a simple (<i>market value base ' royalty rate</i>) formula. Such damages calculations may be excluded from trial, leaving the patentee seeking to recover a fraction of the original damages figure.
Ninth Circuit Holds That Even Brats Deserve Equitable Treatment
Many companies require their employees to sign agreements that any inventions they create "during the course of their employment" will belong to the employer. A recent case decided by the Ninth Circuit, however, illustrates why companies should revisit such agreements in order to ensure that the ideas developed by their employees may not be exploited by those employees to the detriment of their employer.

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