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Recent Patent Law Job Postings: Patent Counsel - Mid-sized Corporation - Gaithersburg, Md. Patent Associate - Law Firm - Seattle, Wash. Patent Prosecution - Law Firm - Los Angeles, Calif...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: RAJUL SHETH - PING PONG GURU
Often, when there is a great concentration of businesses focused on a specific industry in a particular geographic location, the area is called the "Silicon Valley" of and then you fill in the blank...

Leading Chinese Firm Opens Silicon Valley Office
Following the lead of China's largest law firm, the Beijing-based Jun He Law Offices has opened an office in Silicon Valley with lateral hires from three U.S. firms.

S.F. v. S.V.: Firms Bypassing San Francisco for Silicon Valley
When Skadden closes its San Francisco office next June, the firm will be the third New York-based firm to relocate its Northern California operations to Silicon Valley since 2006.

Covington Moves Three D.C. Partners to Silicon Valley
Updated: 4:55 p.m. Three Covington & Burling partners have moved from Washington to the firm?s Silicon Valley office in what the firm says is an effort to add depth to its presence in California...

Blawg of the Day - Flat Fee IP
Flat Fee IP aims to be at "The Frontlines of IP Litigation[/url], and as a sustainable flat fee IP litigation firm, they are definitely up near the front. Confluence Law Partners, a Silicon Valley firm, will provide progress reports and community comments on how or hot not to practice law under the new alternative fee paradigm, and how and when a high-tech business should use a flat fee litigation firm.

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Firm Associate
Attorney Jay Wingate ordered to pay widow $2.5 million settlement for collected legal fees.

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

$189 Million Settlement Reached in Slab Litigation
$189 Million Settlement Reached in Slab Litigation

Breakthrough Settlement Reached In Chinese Drywall Litigation
Chinese Drywall Litigation Breakthrough Settlement Reached

DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.