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Intellectual Property Litigation: Suit Over Copyright in Litigation Filings Explores Known Principles, New Questions
March 15, 2012
Litigation partner Lew Clayton's intellectual property litigation column, published in the March 14 issue of the New York Law Journal, discusses a purported class action alleging that reproduction of briefs and memoranda in Westlaw and Lexis databases violates copyrights owned by the attorneys who authored those court papers. The column also discusses other recent copyright, patent and trademark decisions. Litigation associate Matthew Conrad assisted in preparing the article.
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