Intellectual Property Law

More Speculation on Mergers and Acquisitions in Legal Publishing
Acquisitions and mergers are expected to continue as the major legal publishers explore ways to increase their profitability, achieve growth and increase market share. When organic growth fails to achieve corporate expectations, acquisitions and mergers are the next best thing...

Professional Publishing Mergers and Acquisitions Why Not
Oligopolies? Reduction in healthy competition? Up go the prices. Down goes the quality. Customers in a stranglehold.  Duopoly fear is discussed continuously. It?s a bad thing. Right? I?m not so sure, my reason being that I want to see professional information thrive for all concerned ? shareholders, employees past, present and future, customers, suppliers and society, and in the interests of the supremacy of law...

Walmart DRM Music: Save it or Lose it
Purchasers of music from Walmart prior to February 2008 have been instructed by Walmart to back up their music or risk losing their music altogether.   Before February 2008, Walmart music purchasers bought music containing DRM (digital rights management) technology...

SURVEY: Teens Buying and Illegally Downloading Less Music
Suggests shift in how teens listen to music, streaming more music online and listening to satellite radio. According to a recent survey by The NPD Group, a market research company, teens (13-17yo) acquired 19% less music, both legally and illegally, in 2008 than they did in 2007...

New District of Delaware Intellectual Property Case Filings
4/4: Mallinckrodt Inc., Liebel-Flarsheim Co. v. E-Z-EM Inc. and ACIST Medical Systems, Inc. (patent infringement) 4/6: Perren-Vibes Music, Inc., Universal Polygram International Publishing, Inc...

Digital Wrongs Management
A month after MSN Music attempted to pull the plug on supporting the DRM music files it had sold consumers, now Yahoo! Music is doing the same thing. The online music vendor announced it will cease operations in September...

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Windsor Healthcare Management
allegedly provided substandard care and neglected the rights of its senior residents.

Ram Publishing
alleging phone book advertising contract fraud.

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

Apple Inc.
allegedly maintained an illegal monopoly on the digital music market.

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

Music Teacher
Town of Brookline agrees to $150,000 settlement after the former employee exploited a freshman student.