Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

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Kilpatrick Stockton LLP is a full-service international law firm with more than 500 attorneys in nine offices across the globe: Atlanta and Augusta, GA; Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC; New York, NY; Washington, DC; Stockholm, Sweden and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Kilpatrick Stockton's delivery of innovative business solutions provides results-oriented counsel for corporations, from the challenging demands of financial transactions and securities to the disciplines of intellectual property management. Collaboration among Kilpatrick Stockton's corporate, tax, employment and employee benefit attorneys provides knowledgeable and proactive guidance for companies at every stage of the business life cycle.

General Practice including Civil, Trial and Appellate Practice in all Courts. Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Arbitration and Mediation, Aviation, Banking, Business Transactions, Charitable Foundations, Communications, Construction Law, Copyright, Corporations, Creditors' Rights, Criminal Defense and Special Matters, Employee Benefits, Entertainment, Environmental and Natural Resources, Finance, Financial Restructuring, Franchising, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Health Care, Health and Life Sciences, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, International Business, Labor and Employment, Latin American, Litigation, Medical Malpractice Defense, Mergers and Acquisitions, Municipal Finance, Patent, Patent Litigation, Probate, Products Liability Litigation, Public Utility, Real Estate, Securities, Taxation, Technology, Trademark, Trust and Estates, and Unfair Competition.

Internal Reorganization Results in Improper Assignment of Software License Agreement with Damage Award of Almost Half Million Dollars
Rosaleen H. Chou, Stephen W. Feingold, November 20, 2009
Internal reorganizations are not at all uncommon and usually are viewed as relatively simple transactions with few implications for a company's intellectual property. A recent decision by the Sixth Circuit, Cincom v. Novelis, 581 F.3d 431 (6th Cir. 2009), is a reminder of why it is important, even...

FTC Adopts Amended Guides Governing Endorsements and Testimonials
Barry M. Benjamin, Tywanda Harris Lord, Virginia S. Taylor, Laura C. Miller, October 13, 2009
Nearly thirty years after the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") last updated its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, the FTC announced on October 5, 2009, that it has approved final revisions to the Guides, which address endorsements by consumers,...

Medical Treatment and Diagnostic Claims are Patentable
Amr O. Aly, Susan A. Cahoon, Jamie L. Greene, Cynthia B. Rothschild, Matias Ferrario, Alyson L. Wooten, September 24, 2009
The Federal Circuit has calmed some anxiety over the patentability of medical diagnostic methods under 35 U.S.C. § 101 with its decision in Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, holding that some method of treatment and diagnostic methods are indeed patentable subject...

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