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California Attorney General and Mobile Platform Providers Agree to Require Mobile Software Application Developers to Implement Privacy Policies
Barry M. Benjamin,Stephen Feingold,Christina M. Gattuso,A. Ashford Tucker,J. Henry Walker, March 1, 2012
On February 22, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a privacy agreement concerning mobile software applications with the six largest mobile application platform providers — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard and Research In Motion. This agreement effectively...

Liability Insurers With Grounds Must Timely Disclaim Coverage Even While Investigating Claim George Campbell Painting v. Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa.
David L. Cox,Antoinette L. Ellison,Carl A. Salisbury, February 10, 2012
The First Department of the New York Appellate Division has now overruled its own precedent and joined the Second Department in holding that a New York insurance statute requires a liability insurance company to inform New York policyholders as soon as it believes it has grounds for denying...

Myriad Questions with but Two Answers: Isolated DNA is Patentable Subject Matter but Certain Diagnostic Method Claims are Patent Ineligible
Charles W. Calkins,Wendy A. Choi,Jennifer Giordano-Coltart,Leslie T. Grab,William B. Kezer,Frederick L. Whitmer, August 19, 2011
In reversing the summary judgment of the Southern District of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held today in an opinion by Judge Lourie that claims to isolated DNA and claims for methods of screening potential cancer therapeutics were directed to patentable subject matter. ...

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