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Woodcock Washburn LLP

Woodcock Washburn Attorneys Participate in AIPLA Spring Meeting
Woodcock Washburn LLP attorneys Michele K. Herman and Henrik D. Parker are participating in the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Spring Meeting, to be held May 9-11 at the Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center in Boston.

Herman, who is in the firm’s Seattle office, will present “Standards, Intellectual Property and Antitrust – What are the Battlegrounds?” on May 10 during an antitrust law/electronic and computer law joint session. Herman counsels clients involved in industry standards, software development and licensing, and strategic intellectual property planning. She also has substantial experience with all aspects of software-related intellectual property issues, and in particular, open source software.

Parker, a partner in the firm’s Philadelphia office, will serve as the moderator during a May 11 session on “Ethics of Conflicts and Dealing With Pre-Filing Investigations.” He will be moderating presentations by Sid Leach of Snell & Wilmer, LLP and Abraham Reich of Fox Rothschild, LLP. Parker is a litigator who concentrates his talents on handling patent litigation matters and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He also currently serves as the firm’s General Counsel.

05-02-2007

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Woodcock Washburn LLP

Four Associates Join Woodcock Washburn
The national intellectual property law firm Woodcock Washburn LLP is pleased to announce that four associates have joined the Firm: Amanda Kessel; David Platz; Chad Rutkowski and Lori Swanson. Jim Thatcher, formerly with Microsoft’s antitrust group, joins as of counsel in the Firm’s Seattle office.

Jim Thatcher joins as of counsel in the Firm’s Seattle office, bringing a deep background in commercial software development. Prior to joining the Firm, Thatcher worked as an attorney in Microsoft’s antitrust group. His software development experience allowed him to work effectively with Microsoft’s software architects and developers in their efforts to understand and comply with statutory and regulatory requirements. Thatcher also worked with the corporate standards strategy team at Microsoft. In that role he developed the strategy to establish Microsoft’s Office Open XML file formats as an international standard (Ecma 376). He was also instrumental in negotiating the IP licensing commitments to allow the standardization of OpenType (MPEG 4, Part 22). Thatcher received his J.D. from J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1990, and a B.A. in communications, cum laude, from Brigham Young University in 1987. He also secured an Associate Degree, Arts from Snow College in 1987.

Amanda Kessel joins the Firm’s Philadelphia office from Goodwin Procter in Boston. Kessel received her JD in 2001, magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law and her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry, summa cum laude, from Northeastern in 1998.

David Platz joins the Firm’s Seattle office. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law in 2006 and his B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Ohio State University in 2002. Platz was admitted to the Washington State bar in November, 2006. Chad Rutkowski focuses his practice on litigation. Rutkowski received his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law in 1996 and his undergraduate degree in1993 from Rutgers University. Prior to joining the Philadelphia office, Rutkowski practiced for eight years with a general practice litigation firm White andWilliams LLP. He is currently representing a software development company in its claim of trade secret
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Lori Swanson, a past summer associate, is a 2006 graduate of Temple Law School. She received her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude, from Drexel University in 2001. Prior to joining the Philadelphia office, Swanson was a Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin.

05-02-2007

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Woodcock Washburn LLP

David Wolfsohn of Woodcock Washburn Moderates Cross Exam Program at ABA’s Section of Litigation Annual Conference
David J. Wolfsohn, a partner with the intellectual property law firm Woodcock Washburn LLP, moderated a program entitled “One Size Does Not Fit All: Cross Exam Styles for Problem Witnesses” at the American Bar Association’s 2007 Section of Litigation Annual Conference in San Antonio, April 11-14. Participants included Wolfsohn, David Berg of Berg & Androphy and Justice Dale Wainwright of the Texas Supreme Court.
Wolfsohn concentrates his practice on intellectual property litigation, including matters involving patents, copyrights, and trade secrets.

05-02-2007

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Whiteford Taylor Preston LLP

WTP AND MAYOR DIXON INTRODUCE CARLA NELSON TO CITY AND WOMEN AND MINORITY BUSINESS OWNERS
Over 100 women and minority business owners and members of the local community attended Whiteford, Taylor & Preston’s (WTP) May 1 reception with Mayor Sheila Dixon to welcome Baltimore City’s new Director of Women and Minority Business Development, Carla Nelson. 25 WTP attorneys were in attendance.

“This gathering is a great opportunity for us to raise awareness of the resources and relationships available through the City,” explained Mayor Sheila Dixon. “I’m grateful to Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, a long-established firm, for hosting this event to help us better connect with women and minority business owners.”

Director Carla Nelson noted that, “We want our business community to succeed and we’re dedicated to making that happen through contracting opportunities with the City and other resources.”

“There is a great need for initiatives that help minority- and women-owned businesses,” commented Congressman Elijah Cummings who was unable to attend the event due to scheduled votes on the floor of the House of Representatives. “Programs that help company owners get their start and support their growth are important not only to our local community, but to our nation’s economy as well.”

Among those in attendance were Senator Verna Jones; Deputy Mayor of Baltimore, Andy Frank; Marsha Reeves Jews; Bonnie Copeland, former head of the Baltimore City Public Schools; Lindy Small of Constellation Energy; and Paul Taylor. Dana Petersen Moore and Thurman W. Zollicoffer, Jr., both WTP partners, handled the introductions of Mayor Dixon and Director Nelson.

The Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development strives to increase the number, magnitude and success rate of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in Baltimore City, as well as the number of contracting and procurement dollars spent with minority-owned and women-owned businesses. Additionally, the office facilitates greater involvement of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in identified growth sectors of the City's economy.

05-02-2007

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Whiteford Taylor Preston LLP

ALEXANDER KOFF (CHAIR, GLOBAL PRACTICE) TO MODERATE IP PANEL AT THE 2007 ABA INTERNATIONAL SECTION SPRING MEETING
The U.S. government identified six countries on which to focus increased attention and intellectual property (IP) enforcement efforts: Brazil, Russia, India, China, Egypt, and Thailand - the "BRICET." The ABA Section of International Law accordingly has now expanded its IPR Advisory Program, which it operates in cooperation with the Department of Commerce, to provide U.S. businesses with IP assistance in the BRICET countries. Panelists will explain and critique the U.S. government's choice of these "tipping point" countries as areas where IP enforcement is both possible and essential, and will discuss results thus far. This program complements the review of private-sector and legislative initiatives highlighted in the earlier program on Fighting International Piracy of Intellectual Property.

05-02-2007

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Stites & Harbison PLLC

New EEO-1 Report begins September 30, 2007
The "Employer Information Report," known as the EEO-1 Report (EEO-1), requires certain employers to provide to the EEOC, a count of their employees by ethnicity, race and gender, as well as by job category. The EEO-1 is also, where appropriate, submitted to the Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Employers who have 100 or more employees, or have federal government contracts of $50,000 or more and 50 or more employees, are required to file the EEO-1. The EEO-1 must be filed with the EEOC by September 30 each year. In preparing the EEO-1, employers must use employment statistics from any pay period during July-September of that year.

The new revisions made changes to the race and ethnic categories, including adding a new category, "Two or More Races," and renames, "Black" as "Black or African American." The changes also rename "Hispanic" as "Hispanic or Latino." In addition, the revised EEO-1 strongly endorses self-identification of race and ethnic categories, as opposed to visual identification by employers.

The category of "Officials and Managers" is now divided into two levels. The two levels are:

1. First/Mid-Level Officials and Managers (oversee day-to-day operations; direct implementation or operations within specific parameters set by Executive/Senior Level Officials and Managers).

2. Executive/Senior Level Officials and Managers (plan, direct and formulate policy, set strategy and overall direction).

Another change in the sub-categories moves business and financial occupations from the "Officials and Managers" category to the "Professionals" category. This change was made to improve data gathering used to analyze trends in the mobility of women and minorities within these groups.

With respect to the self-identification issue, the EEOC is encouraging employers to re-survey current employees using the new race and ethnic categories as soon as possible. An employer must accept the employee's self-identification. If an employee refuses to self-identify using the race and ethnic categories, employers may obtain the necessary information from either existing employment records or visual observation. This method may only be used if an employee refuses to self-identify.

05-02-2007

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Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, Pachios & Haley, L.L.P.

Earlier oil case offers little hope
A cold snap was coming and oil prices were climbing when the flood of calls about the J.L. Oliver oil company hit the state's Consumer Protection Bureau in January 2000. Customers like Carol Lerp of Laconia and Dick Obyc of Somersworth were asking for help: Their oil dealer hadn't shown up in weeks to deliver prepaid fuel, and their tanks were almost empty.

In the months that followed, state lawyers would piece together the stories of Lerp, Obyc and more than 1,000 other J.L. Oliver customers, uncovering a trail of bad business decisions and failed promises that left so many without oil in the middle of a cold winter. And although the company's owner, Jonathan Oliver, was ultimately convicted of fraud for taking money from customers with no hope of delivering oil, Oliver never repaid those customers, nor was he required to serve jail time. He didn't file for bankruptcy until four years later.

05-02-2007

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