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G2 Compliance Report -- Keeping the Whistle Away From the Whistleblower: The Laboratory Compliance Officer’s Role in Qui Tam...

by Mintz Levin - Life Sciences on 5/21/2012

Do you, as a laboratory compliance officer, want to spare your employer the disruption, expense, and burden of a government enforcement action? The answer, of course, is “yes.” The most effective and efficient way of doing so...more

Planning for Outsourcing’s Exit

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 5/21/2012

As the average duration of outsourcing contracts continues to become shorter, the issue of exit grows in importance. By tradition, best practice in negotiating exit terms has been: plan it early, and work hard to make it...more

Digital Media Law Alert -- Court Orders Search Engines and Social Sites to De-Index Websites -- May 2012

by Ruskin Moscou Faltischek on 5/17/2012

Hermes International SCA (www.Hermes.com), maker of Birkin handbags and silk scarves, recently won a judgment that includes $100 million in damages against 34 websites that sold fake copies of its luxury goods on websites...more

A Sea Change in the Safe Harbor

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/17/2012

To the delight of content owners everywhere, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has become the first court in the country to rule that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can be liable for copyright infringement even if they...more

ACTA: The Public Revolt

by Ladas & Parry LLP on 5/17/2012

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is the latest and most far-reaching attempt to harmonize intellectual property enforcement and strengthen anti-counterfeiting efforts across the globe. As of May 2012, the...more

Do Your Vendors Have the Right Insurance to Pay for the Damages They May Cause to Your Business?

by Pierce Atwood LLP on 5/14/2012

When you enter into a contract with a vendor, you generally impose insurance requirements on the vendor and an indemnification obligation. But consider whether your current contracts have insurance requirements that would...more

California Jury Finds the Google Mobile Software Infringes Oracle Copyrights, but Fails to Decide if Google’s Use is Protected...

by Patton Boggs LLP on 5/10/2012

On Monday, a California jury found that the Google, Inc. Android mobile device software infringed Oracle Corp. copyrights that cover their Java product. Oracle acquired Java from Sun Microsystems several years ago and sued...more

European IP Bulletin -- Issue 89, April 2012

by McDermott Will & Emery on 5/9/2012

In This Issue: Contracts Court of Appeal of England and Wales Considers “Best” and “All Reasonable” Endeavours The Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Jet2.com Limited v Blackpool Airport Limited [2011]...more

Let a Thousand .Flowers Bloom? Update on New gTLDs

by Field Law on 5/8/2012

You may recall our earlier posts describing the gTLD process (see: The New gTLDs: Who, What and When). ICANN’s process introduces new generic Top-Level-Domains (or gTLDs), expanding the domain name system from the...more

DMCA Safe Harbors De-Coded: 17 U.S.C. Section 512 Re-Organized in More Logical Order

by Fenwick & West LLP on 5/8/2012

Organizationally speaking, the Safe Harbors part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512, doesn’t make much sense. Provisions governing related matters are often scattered through the section, and...more

Data Breaches: Will You Be Sued, And Can You Lower Risk?

by Bryan Cave on 5/2/2012

Originally published in Law360, New York (April 25, 2012, 1:29 PM ET) Statistics regarding data security breaches can be sobering. For instance, according to one widely reported study conducted by the Ponemon Institute,...more

Court Report - Part III - April 26, 2012

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 4/27/2012

In an effort to catch up with recently filed biotech and pharma cases, Patent Docs presents this additional installment of Court Report. Depomed Inc. et al. v. Watson Laboratories Inc. Florida et al. 1:12-cv-00492;...more

Alleged pirates to walk the plank

by Baldwins l Intellectual Property on 4/24/2012

The first enforcement (third strike) notices have now been issued to alleged copyright infringers in New Zealand. New Zealand brought the ‘three strikes’ or ‘skynet’ law into force in September 2011, under the provisions...more

Court Report - Part III - April 19, 2012

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 4/20/2012

In an effort to catch up with recently filed biotech and pharma cases, Patent Docs presents this additional installment of Court Report. AR Holding Co. Inc. v. Par Pharmaceutical Inc. 1:12-cv-00419; filed April 4, 2012...more

The Supreme Court Reverses the Federal Circuit’s Decision in Caraco v. Novo Nordisk

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 4/19/2012

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Caraco v. Novo Nordisk, holding that Hatch-Waxman permits generic drug companies to counterclaim to force correction of a use code that inaccurately describes the brand company’s...more

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