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Strategic IT Decisions: The Backroom Brawl
LJN's Equipment Leasing Newsletter
This article discusses the business issues and challenges that are driving the need for lessors to reassess their IT strategy and approach. The focus of this discussion is on the factors management should consider as it examines the company’s IT strategy for core leasing operations, i.e., front-end and back-end systems.

Commentary:
Favored-Nation Clauses: Live Nation’s Expansion Into 360-Degree Deals with Artists

Entertainment Law & Finance
I think the 10-year deal that concert-industry giant Live Nation just closed with Jay-Z is brilliant. It builds on Live Nation’s groundbreaking deal with Madonna and reinforces its unique position to make these deals profitable.

Dressing Your e-Business Up for Success
e-Commerce Law & Strategy
Asking an e-commerce entrepreneur whether he or she knows what the business looks like may seem silly. After all — doesn’t it seem a given that no one can run a business, whether an e-commerce venture or a traditional bricks-and-mortar storefront operation, without knowing its basic financial information, especially cash flows, receivables and payables, and the balance sheet?

A Passport to Virtual Worlds
Internet Law & Strategy
The vast majority of online games are designed to allow for gamers to level-up their Avatars in the virtual society by earning virtual currency and/or developing skills that make the character more desirable. The current trend of allowing player-created content has led more players to consider the virtual property that they have created or earned to be their real world property as well.

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Six Strategies to Protect Clients Against IP Theft
This article outlines strategies for protecting clients against IP theft.

Lessons Learned from a Gum Licensing Agreement
More than a decade after the license agreement between The Topps Company and Stani expired, the question of who owns the rights to manufacture and distribute the original Bazooka® bubble gum formula in South America is still unresolved.

Muniauction v. Thomson
The Muniauction v. Thomson decision illustrates the Federal Circuit’s application of the Supreme Court’s decision on obviousness in KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex, Inc. and confirms the Federal Circuit’s own decision on "joint or divided" infringement in BMC Resources, Inc. v. Paymentech.

IP News
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news and cases from around the country.

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