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February 26, 2007 |

Fast Food Lawsuits

Despite a few well-publicized lawsuits (some of which have had the effect of changing the content of some companies' food), there appears to be little basis for widespread and panic-inducing predictions of a new 'big tobacco.'
8 minute read
July 18, 2007 |

GC leads legal department through merger with Cisco

MICHAEL C. VEYSEY, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Scientific Atlanta, greeted visitors to his office on a rainy afternoon last week by showing them a stick-a flexible one with rolling cylinders meant not to inflict pain but to soothe it. The lean 63-year-old runner finds the stick handy to "work out the kinks" during long meetings.
7 minute read
February 21, 2007 |

Fast food lawsuits

There has been a proliferation of articles predicting that fast food litigation will be the next big tobacco litigation. But tobacco companies and fast food restaurants are not treated the same way by the courts, and such disparate treatment is likely to continue.
7 minute read
January 19, 2006 |

Whistleblowers

Corporate whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley securities law stops at the U.S. border, said the first U.S. appellate court to address the issue. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has held that the law does not extend to foreign workers employed by the overseas subsidiaries of U.S. companies.
4 minute read
November 15, 2012 |

I Can Haz Copyright Infringement? Internet Memes and Intellectual Property Risks

Given the vast popularity of some Internet memes, it is not surprising that corporate marketers want to harness this popularity to promote commercial interests. But online memes pose a number of intellectual property-related questions for companies.
8 minute read
January 31, 2011 |

Social networking can lead to tricky issues for trademark owners

On Facebook and Twitter, a variety of people not associated with a trademark may refer to it, and some of them may abuse the mark.
7 minute read
February 04, 2011 |

Tweeting Your Trademark, Saving Its Face on Facebook

Trademark abuse on social networks runs the gamut from use of a mark as a personal identifier in a profile to posting content misleadingly attributed to the manufacturer to online identity usurpation. IP attorney Ethan Horwitz lays out what can happen to your mark on Twitter or Facebook and how to respond.
7 minute read
September 16, 2004 |

U.S. House Passes Frivolous Lawsuit Bill

House Republicans pushed through legislation Tuesday aimed at reducing frivolous lawsuits.
3 minute read

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