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Innovators take patent bill battle to Senate

with F. Scott Kieffvia Reuters
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Executives and lobbyists from some of America's richest and most influential companies are walking the halls of Congress, buttonholing senators to argue for strong patents to preserve U.S. innovation...

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Attorneys at Politics: Would You Hire One to Represent You?

with Richard A. Epsteinvia New York Times
Saturday, October 27, 2007

You could put together a pretty decent little law firm drawing on just the leading presidential candidates...

Analysis and Commentary

A dangerous one-two punch

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Financial Times
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Right now, patent holders everywhere are warily watching the Patent Reform Act of 2007 (PRA) as it winds its way, perhaps inexorably, through the US Congress...

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The Immigration Solution?

with Victor Davis Hansonvia PR Newswire
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

In The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's, authors Heather Mac Donald, Victor Davis Hanson, and Steven Malanga diagnose and offer prescriptions for our current immigration mess...

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Third-Party Liability?

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, October 21, 2007

I agree with Posner that third party liability is desirable in some cases, but that class is narrow...

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SEC Tells Marvell, Exec to Expect Suits

with Abraham D. Sofaervia Recorder (CA)
Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Securities and Exchange Commission has notified Marvell Technology and one of its top officers that it plans to sue over stock option backdating...

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With 'Injustice' As An Excuse, Crime Soared

with Thomas Sowellvia National Center for Policy Analysis
Thursday, October 18, 2007

The idea that "injustices and inequities" explain crime goes back more than two hundred years...

Analysis and Commentary

FISA Follies

by Benjamin Wittesvia New Republic
Monday, October 15, 2007

For all the fire-breathing rhetoric we can expect to hear about modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the coming months, last week's introduction by House Democrats of their bill on the subject makes one thing abundantly clear: The Democrats and the Bush administration aren't very far apart...

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Liability lawyers offer corporate America a deal it can’t refuse

with Richard A. Epsteinvia Examiner
Friday, October 12, 2007

They just don’t get any more important than Stoneridge Investment Partners v Scientific Atlanta, the potential landmark case argued earlier this week before eight justices of the U.S. Supreme Court...

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On Coordinating Transactions in Intellectual Property: A Response to Smith’s Delineating Entitlements in Information

by F. Scott Kieffvia Yale Law Journal
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Henry Smith’s Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information contributes to the intellectual property literature by arguing that enforcing IP with rights to exclude can mitigate the high information costs associated with information-based assets...

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