Navigation Sophia Contreras is stepping in as general counsel in the wake of John Orta’s departure early this month as chief legal officer and head of corporate development.
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LLM Customization With A Path to Human Inventorship and Patent Rights
A statutory predicate to the contractual outcome regarding ownership of patent rights is the requirement of a sufficient contribution by a natural person in the effort that yielded the invention. The issues implicated by this requirement are one development among more to come as patent law and policy try to catch up to proliferating AI […]
How I Made Practice Group Chair: 'Don't Be Afraid to Take Risks, Embrace Challenges, and Learn From Failures,' Stacie Trott of DLA Piper
“My advice for those looking to become practice leaders is this—don’t be afraid to take risks, embrace challenges, and learn from failures. Being a practice leader requires resilience, adaptability, empathy, emotional intelligence and a growth mindset.”
Are Law Firms Headed for an Era of Rapid Staff Turnover?
“Whether it’s due to redundancies, retirement or switching firms, support staff turnover seems to be fixed at a high rate for the foreseeable [future],” a recent report concluded.
Antitrust Class Actions Emerging Against Big Pharma for Alleged Misuse of Patents
“Teva stifled would-be generic competitors to QVAR because the drug laws do not allow for generic substitution of a given drug-device combination unless the generic is approved for that specific drug-device combination,” the complaint alleged.