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Who Wins With Google’s New Patent Purchase Marketplace – Other than Google?

BigLaw, Featured / May 20, 2015

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Hodgson Russ – Jordan Walbesser – There’s something off about Google’s Patent Purchase Promotion. Purchasing patents is not new. In fact, Google has a long history of buying patents. What’s new is the idea of a limited-time solicitation. To me, Google’s announcement evokes a stereotypical used-car ad—“Get a great deal on your patent, but you

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“Innocence of Muslims” Video Decision

Featured / May 20, 2015

Tom Rubin is a lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, former Chief Intellectual Property Strategy Counsel at Microsoft, on the Board of Directors at Creative Commons, and on the Board of Advisors of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. This opinion piece appeared in Huffington Post. Welcome news this week from the

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The Fast-Growing Law Firm Hits UK Startup List

Featured, Rankings, UK Law / May 18, 2015

It’s unusual for a law firm to make a high-growth startup list, but Cardiff-based firm Greenaway Scott has done it. Making the influencing British Startups 100 2015, the recently launched firm is focused on growth, foucsing on life science and technology companies. With just over two years of solid trading and year on year growth,

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Top Gear 2: “House of Cars”

Featured / May 14, 2015

Top Gear: Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May

Jeremy Clarkson and his co-presenters on the “Top Gear” show will be avoiding any legal issues with news that they are talking about launching a new car show entitlerd “How of Cars”. Netflix will be looking at an on-demand service with the craftily titled show being a take on their wildly popular “House of Cards”

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Tom Brady: Deflated!

Featured / May 13, 2015

Deflated! That must be the word for both Tom Brady and the Patriots after they received a hefty punishment for deflating footballs. But for the NFL it was far more than that. The so-called DeflateGate scandal erupted at a time when the NFL had a $25,000 punishment on their books for altering game balls. Tom

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Lawyer’s Fake Blog Leads to ISIL Threat and Neo-Nazi Diatribe

Australia Law News, Featured / May 12, 2015

An intricate neo-Nazi plot has involved a Jewish Melbourne lawyer in a nasty ISIL threat and a swirling controversy over his alleged claims for genocide for Palestinians has been revealed. The odd twist of events involved Australian neo-Nazis who wrote in an online forum about “all out war” against ISIL and the lawyer, Josh Bornstein,

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Oxford University Rape Claim Fails

Featured / May 11, 2015

Issues of rape and sexual assault are too frequent on many university campuses and Oxford University has just resisted a legal challenge brought by a former student who sought to challenge the university’s restrictive approach towards inquiries into such matters. Elizabeth Ramey took a judicial review proceeding to the High Court but the court refused

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Slower Law Firm Growth in 2015

Featured / May 10, 2015

2015 has seen a slower start for the larger law firms, according to Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group’s recent survey. The survey showed that revenue growth was modest and demand was essentially flat in the first quarter, compared with the same period last year. Gretta Rusanow, senior client adviser at Citi Private Bank’s Law

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The Seven Key factors About Mother’s Day You Never Knew

Featured / May 9, 2015

Some key facts about Mother’s Day that you may not have known by anyone, lawyers included. For instance, the Courts heard custody hearings on Mother’s Day. Anna Jarvis always considered Mother’s Day her intellectual and legal property and wasn’t afraid to lawyer up in its defense. She included a warning on some Mother’s Day International Association

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“How Does Litigation Work In . . ” A Country-by-Country Report

BigLaw, Featured / May 6, 2015

Clifford Chance – Clients regularly ask us questions concerning litigation procedures and processes in their respective jurisdictions and beyond. We have taken a selection of those commonly asked questions and compiled the responses into this practical guide for in-house litigation counsel. The guide provides a country-by-country overview of litigation in Asia-Pacific, Continental Europe, the Middle

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