MacArthur Genius Award Winner Says Patent System Stifles Innovation
One of the recipients of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship, known as the "genius award," is best known for a study that concludes that intellectual property rights on existing technologies hinder innovation.
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MacArthur Genius Award Winner Says Patent System Stifles Innovation
SEC Can’t Get Insider-Trading Defendants’ Phone Passwords
The smartphone passwords of two former Capital One data analysts accused of insider trading will remain a secret to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal judge has ruled in a case one securities lawyer said covered rarely-trodden ground.
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SEC Can’t Get Insider-Trading Defendants’ Phone Passwords
Special Report: The 2015 Global 100
The world’s top-grossing firms are experiencing steady growth after a long, bumpy journey. But while revenue per lawyer and profits per partner have rebounded, that’s due in part to declining headcount.
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Special Report: The 2015 Global 100
Law Schools Special Report: <br />Staying Sane, Before and After Graduation
This week, we present a "how-to" for students and for lawyers starting their careers.
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Law Schools Special Report: <br />Staying Sane, Before and After Graduation
Abortion Clinic, Privacy Cases Wait in Wings at High Court
Significant challenges that involve abortion, solitary confinement, insider trading and other contentious questions await the justices’ decisions on whether to add them to the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Abortion Clinic, Privacy Cases Wait in Wings at High Court
Magic Diet Powder Didn’t Work? Tell Anyone and We’ll Sue You
It sounds great: Mix a powder in your drink and lose up to 21 pounds a month. Eat chocolate cake and ice cream and all the foods you love! The success rate is 90 percent! Or so claimed Roca Labs Inc., which was sued by the Federal Trade Commission last week in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida for deceptive advertising. But this case has a twist.
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Magic Diet Powder Didn’t Work? Tell Anyone and We’ll Sue You
