How to Avoid Website Liability by Fred Zemel on 5/24/2012 Your company's website is the world's window into your business. It can also be the source of unlimited liability. Like any other business risk, this potential liability can be managed. First, you need to know the sources...more
Making Your Online Evidence Usable in the Courtroom by Kaiser Legal Group on 5/23/2012 Presented at, and written for, the Seattle Continuing Legal Education seminar "Everything You Don't Know About E-Discovery (But Wish You Did)." The CLE was held at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle,...more
Innovation to Industry Japan Initiative by Baldwins l Intellectual Property on 5/23/2012 The Ministry for Science and Innovation has made a new grant available through the International Relationships Fund. The grant is designed to support local science-based business in the biomedical, health and functional food...more
USPTO Posts Comments on Genetic Diagnostic Testing by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/23/2012 As part of its efforts to implement the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a Federal Register notice (77 Fed. Reg. 3748) earlier this year indicating that the Office had begun to...more
Resolving Life Science Collaboration Disputes by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 5/22/2012 This article first appeared in Law360, May 11, 2012. Life science companies frequently collaborate to develop drugs or devices. Some collaboration agreements refer disputes to arbitration. Others are silent so any...more
Emerging Payment Products And Payment Systems by Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 5/22/2012 This presentation was originally given at the 26th Annual Payment Card Institute in Arlington, VA, on May 3-4, 2012. DWT partner Andy Lorentz was featured on a panel that addressed emerging payment products and payment...more
Federal Circuit Upholds Jury’s Verdict Invalidating a Software Patent Under the On-Sale Bar of 35 U.S.C. §102(b) by Patton Boggs LLP on 5/22/2012 In Leader Technologies, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., No. 11-1366 (Fed. Cir. May. 8, 2012), the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a District Court jury’s verdict that a software patent was invalid as...more
FDA Finalizes Rule Expanding Scope of Clinical Investigator Disqualification by McDermott Will & Emery on 5/22/2012 Effective May 30, 2012, a clinical investigator deemed ineligible to receive one type of test article (e.g., drug, device or new animal drug) due to repeated or deliberate violations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s...more
Court Report - May 21, 2012 by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/22/2012 About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Orion Corp. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. 1:12-cv-00523; filed April 26, 2012 in the District Court of...more
mHealth: Technology's Healthcare Reform by Duane Morris LLP on 5/22/2012 "If you don't have mobility in your [healthcare] strategy, then you don't have a strategy," said Allina Health System's Susan Heichert at a 2012 national health information conference. As funds for traditional...more
Mobile App Developers Need To Have A Privacy Policy If They Want To Do Business With Apple, Google, Amazon… And Capitalize On... by Michelle Sherman on 5/22/2012 “Say what you mean, and mean what you say.” This simple expression is very fitting for how mobile app developers should be drafting their privacy policies. Now that the major platforms for your apps have entered into an...more
China Briefing - April 2012 (May 21, 2012) by Reed Smith on 5/22/2012 Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Health Care & Life Sciences News • NDRC: Chinese government to review carefully drug pricing differences between ex-factory and bid prices (NBD News 2012-04-05) – April 5, 2012...more
mHealth Stakeholders: Bullet List of Legal Considerations by Duane Morris LLP on 5/22/2012 You are a device maker, an app or software developer, a potential investor, a healthcare provider, a healthcare payor or an insurer and you see opportunities in mobile health (mHealth). You have an idea for a revolutionary...more
Applying Prometheus To Myriad: Possible Outcomes by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/22/2012 Originally published in Law360, New York, May 21, 2012 -- On March 26, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a much anticipated GVR (grant [certiorari], vacate and remand) order in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. the...more
What If I Discover Unlicensed IBM Software on My Servers? by Scott & Scott, LLP on 5/22/2012 Scott & Scott, LLP attorney Christopher Barnett suggests tools to minimize licensing exposure resulting from unintended IBM product deployments....more