Recently by Randy Lipsitz
Intellectual Property
From Books To Bytes: Second Circuit Endorses Library Digitization Projects
It’s been a very good stretch for digital libraries. Late last year, Second Circuit Judge Denny Chin, sitting as a Southern District of New York judge, ruled that digital book scanning in the Google Books Project constituted a fair use of the authors’ works and therefore did not...
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America Invents Major Revisions To U.S. Patent Law
While there have been various changes to U.S. patent law in the years since the last significant revamping of the U.S. patent system in 1952, not any have been as sweeping in scope as the changes that recently became law through the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (H.R. 1249). With campaign-style...
Read MoreForum Selection Clauses - Never Mere Boiler Plate
Parties to a contract will, more often than not, include: (i) a forum selection clause to identify the agreed location where disputes among the parties should be litigated and (ii) a choice of law clause to select the law governing the contractual relationship. However, as demonstrated in the...
Read MorePatent Assignments - Employers: Check Your Employment Agreements Before Bringing A Patent Infringement Suit
All of the "owners" of a patent must generally be included in an action to enforce the patent. The failure to include any such necessary party may be grounds for dismissal of the action (entities declining to join in the action may, however, be joined involuntarily). Such defects in "standing"...
Read MoreIP And Technology Law: At The Center Of A Firm's Practice
Editor: Would each of you give our readers something of your professional experience? Gilden: I have been practicing as a corporate lawyer for over 30 years. Prior to joining Kramer Levin, I was the Managing Partner of the New York office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, a national firm with...
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