Legal Pad
Legal matters of interest to businesspeople.
Author: Roger Parloff is a senior writer at Fortune, where he covers a wide range of legal issues—from mass torts to intellectual property.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Law Firms • U.S. Supreme Court • Legal News Publication • Blawg 100 • Business Law
Recent Posts from Legal Pad
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Law and economics 2.0
On Thursday the Kauffman Foundation will announce that it is making $10 million in initial contributions to found an initiative aimed at reinvigorating, and, to some extent redirecting, the exceedingly influential school of thought that…
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A no-fly zone to protect Linux from patent trolls
On Tuesday a consortium of technology companies, including IBM (IBM), will launch a new initiative designed to help shield the open-source software community from threats posed by companies or individuals holding dubious software patents and seeking…
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Did big patent ruling doom software patents?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s blockbuster patent ruling Thursday in the In re Bilski case obviously has important repercussions for the future of software patents, a subject I wrote about in the post…
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Google and Yahoo fight with the feds
Yahoo’s ad alliance with Google seems like a great deal to Messrs. Brin, Page, and Yang. Now they just have to win over the Justice Department. Google and Yahoo had hoped to have it all…
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Google and Yahoo fight with the feds
Yahoo’s ad alliance with Google seems like a great deal to Messrs. Brin, Page, and Yang. Now they just have to win over the Justice Department. Google and Yahoo had hoped to have it all…
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Russia v Bank of New York: How weak can a case get?
Russia’s $22.5 billion case against the Bank of New York Mellon now appears to hinge upon a stray misstatement contained in a continuing legal education outline written by a lawyer who’s never been involved in…
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eBay rulings relating to counterfeiting — English translations
Since a number of people have emailed me seeking English translations of the various international rulings relating to whether eBay (or other online auction houses, of course) can be held liable when visitors sell counterfeit…
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Russia is a no-show in its suit against the Bank of New York
A weird case got weirder this morning, when the Russian Federal Customs Service failed to send any representative at all to appear in a Moscow court for the resumption of pretrial hearings in its $22.5…
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U.S. prosecutors refute Russian claim in suit against Bank of New York
Notwithstanding frequent assertions to the contrary by lawyers representing Russia in that nation’s $22.5 billion lawsuit against the Bank of New York Mellon (BK), the bank has never admitted “criminal culpability” for a rogue employee’s…
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Cloud of uncertainty over non-profit HMOs
This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to hear a case of great interest to the $1 trillion non-profit healthcare industry: whether that sector, especially non-profit HMOs, will continue to qualify for tax-exempt…