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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> A Big Win for Pharma Companies in Overtime Case
June 18, 2012
Pharmaceutical companies scored a major victory on June 18 when a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that the industry's sales representatives are not eligible for overtime pay.
<B><I>Online Exclusive:</b></i> <b>No Liability Found for Sending Texts to Driver Just Before Crash</b>
May 31, 2012
A person can't be sued for allegedly helping to cause an accident by texting a driver, a New Jersey judge holds in a widely watched case.
Damages Soar from False Advertising About Skydiving
May 30, 2012
In March 2012, the Ninth Circuit in <i>Skydive Arizona, Inc. v. Quattrocchi, et al.</i> upheld a $6.6 million judgment for trademark infringement, false advertising, and cybersquatting, while overturning the district court's doubling of actual damages. The opinion succinctly outlines appellate review standards while offering insights into how to prove a Lanham Act and cybersquatting case.
Duty to Defend: Johnson Controls' Attempt to Turn Excess Insurance into Primary Insurance
May 30, 2012
On April 2, 2012, Johnson Controls and certain of its excess insurers filed simultaneous motions for summary judgment on the duty to defend issue in the Milwaukee County circuit court. The outcome of these motions will be of great interest to insurers since Johnson Controls is seeking to fundamentally change the role and function of excess insurance.
Applying Technology To the Business of Health Care
May 29, 2012
Advocates for online health services have long argued that the health care-services and health care-products industries could significantly enhance its ability to deliver quality products and services to consumers by using e-commerce to improve access to, and the timeliness and accuracy of, information, delivery and purchasing pertaining to the health care-sector supply chain.
The Evolving Landscape of Modern Tort Liability
May 29, 2012
While the call for tort reform is a continuing cry by opponents of our civil justice system, the necessity for, and the scope of, reform remains largely debatable.
Practice Tip: Spoliation and the 'Bad Faith' Requirement
May 29, 2012
This article underscores the necessity of understanding the importance of preserving evidence given the jurisdictional differences in spoliation law.
Navigating the Stream of Commerce in the Wake of Nicastro
May 29, 2012
What is required to establish the minimum contacts necessary to exert specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant in a forum state?
Germer Gertz Improves Productivity with Secure Document Delivery
May 29, 2012
When you send a document to someone electronically, what's your preferred tool? Do you turn to File Transfer Protocol (FTP)? Or perhaps a thumb drive? For many lawyers and legal professionals (and this won't come as a surprise), the go-to tool is e-mail. It is easy and lawyers get it. But from an IT perspective, e-mail poses many problems.
Your Tenant Is in Default, But the Entity Does Not Exist
May 28, 2012
More often than you might think, landlords enter into leases with tenant-entities only to find later, when the tenant defaults under the lease, that the tenant-entity was never lawfully formed or did not exist at the time of entering into the lease.

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    Most experienced intellectual property attorneys understand the significant role surveys play in trademark infringement and other Lanham Act cases, but relatively few are likely to have considered the use of such research in patent infringement matters. That could soon change in light of the recent admission of a survey into evidence in <i>Applera Corporation, et al. v. MJ Research, Inc., et al.</i>, No. 3:98cv1201 (D. Conn. Aug. 26, 2005). The survey evidence, which showed that 96% of the defendant's customers used its products to perform a patented process, was admitted as evidence in support of a claim of inducement to infringe. The court admitted the survey into evidence over various objections by the defendant, who had argued that the inducement claim could not be proven without the survey.
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