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A Practical Guide To Merger And Acquisition Antitrust Clearance
The antitrust laws stand as a potential roadblock, if you will, to the successful completion of a strategic merger or acquisition. Strategic acquisitions - those involving horizontal competitors, or upstream and downstream suppliers and customers - draw the interest and curiosity of antitrust...
Read MoreFalse Patent Marking Litigation: The Present Landscape And Mitigating Its Risks
With Forest Group v. Bon Tool , 590 F.3d 1295 (Fed. Cir. 2009), the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit breathed life into a "cottage industry of false marking litigation." Id . at 1303. The Forest Group court held that the plain language of the false patent marking...
Read MoreThe Art Of Managing Trade Remedy Cases Involving China
Editor: Please tell our readers about your practice area. Cannon: My practice focuses on trade remedy actions, primarily antidumping and countervailing duty cases. I represent U.S. manufacturers and agricultural producers having problems due to unfairly traded imported goods. I generally...
Read MoreRe-Assessing Data Security In 2010: A List Of Practical Action Items
The beginning of 2010 makes clear that data security's bottom line is unequivocal. Even in a down economy, businesses that handle personal information - whether customer or employee data - face a number of rigorous legal obligations. A recent wave of state laws - Massachusetts,1 Nevada,2...
Read MoreThe Push For Climate Change Business Impacts Analysis And Disclosure
Companies that have something to lose or gain from climate change, whether from actual physical consequences of global warming and associated weather events or from increased regulation or liability exposure, are facing increased pressure from different quarters to track and report how those...
Read MoreDo Your Bit To Control Runaway E-Discovery Costs
Mark Austrian is a Partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. He focuses his trial practice on litigation, mediation and arbitration proceedings, including matters in the intellectual property, toxic tort, products liability, customs, telecommunications, commercial and environmental law areas...
Read MoreIT Procurement Practices That Produce Outsourcing Savings
Editor: What can corporate legal departments expect regarding IT procurement in 2010? Madison: With the country coming out of the recession, there should be an uptick in the procurement of information technology and software, particularly in the last three quarters of 2010. We are seeing the...
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