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Intellectual property and business litigation, Massachusetts and nationallyWritten by humans
Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer
Antitrust and the "Single Entity" Doctrine
It is axiomatic that an entity cannot "conspire" with itself. For example, the Supreme Court has held that a parent corporation and its subsidiary are not capable of an illegal conspiracy under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Of course, as is true with most legal principles, what looks simple at 30,000 feet altitude becomes more complicated the closer one gets to the ground, and the courts have struggled with the definition of a "single entity" in a variety of contexts. Dean Williamson of the DOJ...
Supernova 2006: Connecting in Complex World
I usually find the Knowledge@Wharton reports and articles interesting. Here is a series of articles summarizing some of the topics discussed at their annual Supernova Conference, which was held in San Francisco in late June. The topics include: What's the Future of Desktop Software -- and How Will It Affect Your Privacy? Kevin Lynch on Adobe's Plans for a New Generation of Software The Rise of the 'Videonet' Tantek
The "Anonymous Lawyer" Industry
First the blog, then the web site, and finally the book. Jeremy Blachman has quite an operation! Law firms, and especially large law firms, are very strange places. Combine driven, intelligent (mostly), eccentric people, big egos, big money, competition for partnership among associates and for share of income among partners, clients pressures, competition between firms, greed, .... I could go on. Having worked at three of these institutions (the-firm-formally-known-as Hale and Dorr,...
Things Just Ain't Like They Used To Be
When a popular blogger/law firm associate gets fired by her firm, in this case mega-firm Reed Smith, she doesn't just go gentle into that good night, as so many thousands of associates have done before her. Or silently, for that matter. Denise Howell, author of the popular Bag and Baggage blog (and coiner of the term "blawg"), discusses her experiences, motherhood, and her opportunities here.