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2013 Articles

Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation Group Orange County Business Journal: Can Your DNA Be Patented? The Supreme Court Draws A Delicate Balance

By Stan Gibson and Greg  Cordrey Download the PDF: Can Your DNA Be Patented? The Supreme Court Draws A Delicate Balance This article was originally published in the Orange County Business Journal. In Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., the Supreme Court held that a naturally occurring, isolated segment of DNA is a product […]

Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions Corporate Governance: a Primer on Board Member Evaluation

Reproduced with permission from Corporate Accountability Report, 11 CARE 667, 06/24/2013. Copyright © 2013 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) http://www.bna.com Download a PDF of this article: Corporate Governance: a Primer on Board Member Evaluation By Bill Capps The heightened focus on corporate governance by regulators, stock exchanges, and investors over the past decade […]

Taxation and Trusts & Estates The “Death Knell” for Family Discounts?

Executive Summary The Obama Administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2014 on April 10, which included several proposals affecting estate planning. These are described in the Treasury Department’s General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2014 Revenue Proposals (commonly referred to as “the Greenbook”). Noticeable by its absence was the perennial proposal to […]