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Follow Other Topics » Email to Colleague »     Intellectual Property   Legal intelligence from leading lawyers and law firms      Featured    Baseball Analogy Catches Differences in Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Theories   Scott Joachim, chair of Fenwick's Private Equity Group, discusses the different vehicles through which limited partnerships (LPs) diversify their investments across venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) funds. Baseball… By: Fenwick & West LLP     Intellectual Property Newsletter - December 2012   In This Issue: ..News From the Bench: - Clarification of the “Vitiation Test” when applying the Doctrine of Equivalents. - The “Success More Likely Than Not” and “Ordinary Observer” Standards for a Preliminary Injunction in design patent... By: King & Spalding     USPTO Issues Final Rule Implementing Micro Entity Status   Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (77 Fed. Reg. 75019) issuing the Office's final rule implementing the micro entity provision of § 10 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. The notice... By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP     THQ Goes Down   As 2012 winds down and we all recover from what I’m sure was a wonderful Festivus celebration (I know I’m still feeling the effects of a particularly bloody Feats of Strength and an overly ambitious Airing of Grievances directed at me by my family... By: Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.     Opening Shots in Gunn v. Minton: The Petitioner's Brief and Several Amici Curiae Briefs in Support   Earlier this year we reported on the granting of certiorari for the case of Gunn v. Minton from the Supreme Court of Texas. The case involves a claim of attorney malpractice in an underlying patent litigation matter. The heart of the matter is... By: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP     Website Owners: Who Is Liable For Third Party Postings On Your Website?   A recent Fairfax County defamation case involving a consumer’s scathing postings against a contractor on Yelp and Angie’s List raises the issue as to who can be held liable for postings made by third parties. Can the party who owns the website be... By: Bean, Kinney & Korman, PC     2012 Top Canadian Entertainment, Media And Communications Law Stories   In keeping with tradition, and gambling that there won't actually be any significant entertainment/media law occurrences between now and January 1, 2013 (which is probably a pretty safe bet), we offer our humble thoughts on this year's most... By: Heenan Blaikie LLP     Most Popular Posts Of 2012   Yes, it’s the lazy way to do a post during the week before Christmas and New Year. In my next post, we will use this information to help predict the trends of legal issues for online media, marketing, internet law and start-ups for 2013.... By: Looper Reed & McGraw, P.C.     IP Update, Vol. 15, No. 12, December 2012   In This Issue: Patents - ..Federal Circuit Rules It’s Own Standards Apply When Considering Preliminary Injunctions ..Preliminary Testing of Medical Devices in Animals Enables Their Use in Humans ..Rare Finding of Non-Obviousness Based... By: McDermott Will & Emery     Microsoft Court Holds Right to Replicate Software Is an Intangible Property Right for Purposes of California's Sales Factor Sourcing Rules   Earlier this week, the California Court of Appeal, First District, held that the right to replicate and install software is an intangible property right for sales-factor sourcing purposes. Thus, for the years at issue, the cost-of-performance rule... By: Reed Smith     Top Posts of 2012   Here’s a quick summary of the top five blog posts from 2012. 1. American Express Can’t Enforce Arbitration Agreement Antitrust Class Action Waiver. Discussing the Second Circuit case refusing to enforce an American Express arbitration agreement... By: Howard Ullman     Bill Could Put Reins on Prosecutors' Efforts to Seize Domain Names   Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, has indicated that she is drafting legislation that would seek to increase judicial oversight over prosecutors’ efforts to act against Internet domain names accused of... By: Ifrah Law - Hands-on Counsel, Gloves-off     BaZynga!   Free-to-play games are all the rage these days. Many people while away their days playing Angry Birds, or Words with Friends before going home to watch Monday Night Football. Nerds — and, increasingly, “normal people” — do the exact same thing,... By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger     If Only I Could Be A Lego Product Tester…   Santa brought me one of my favorite trademarked and patented products: a LEGO® set! Yes that is Mr. Firefighter dousing the flames on the LEGO® tree while holding a cup of coffee. The hero of my LEGOland!... By: Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.     Girl Under Fire: Alicia Keys Sued for Copyright Infringement over Girl on Fire   Songwriter Earl Shuman sued Alicia Keys for allegedly “sampling” parts of the composition “Hey There Lonely Boy” (“Lonely”) that he co-wrote in 1962. According to the complaint, Keys’ recording of “Girl on Fire” (“Fire”), which is the lead single on... By: BakerHostetler     Court Report - December 23, 2012   About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Bayer Pharma AG et al. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. et al. 1:12-cv-01726; filed December 18, 2012 in the District Court of Delaware •... By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP     News from Abroad: Speculation Invalidates Invention?   Originally published in Forresters on December 23, 2012. Over the past few years the UK patents courts have moved closer to the approach of the European Patent Office (EPO) on inventive step. In particular, the UK courts have started to... By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP     Are the Regulators Coming after the Patent Trolls?   The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice recently held a workshop to discuss the effects of patent assertion entities (PAEs) on innovation and competition.... By: BakerHostetler     Will the Supreme Court Review Copyright Damages in Music Downloading Case?   Like Joel Tenenbaum, who has been discussed in prior entries in this blog, Jammie Thomas-Rasset has conducted a long-running battle with the recording industry over how much damages she should pay for her downloading activity. Like Mr. Tenenbaum,... 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