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Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer

Zealous Advocacy, or Abuse of Advocacy?

In the Medtronic v. BrainLab patent litigation in U.S. District Court in Colorado, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch has sanctioned Medtronic Navigation, Inc. and its lawyers $4.3 million, an amount which represents part of the attorney's fees and costs incurred by BrainLab in defending this case. This order is a follow-up to his decision last February ordering that Medtronic be sanctioned, but not deciding (at that time) the precise amount of the sanction. Unusual circumstances led...

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Two Articles of Interest (by Judges) in the Boston Bar Journal: Continuity and Change in the Business Litigation Session and Lessons for E-Discovery Practitioners

Two articles in the September/October issue of the Boston Bar Journal (pdf file on BBA site) are of particular interest. In the first, entitled "Continuity and Change in the Business Litigation Session" Superior Court Judges Judith Fabricant, Ralph Gants and Stephen Neal discuss the Business Litigation Session (BLS) as this session approaches its eighth anniversary and continues its transition following the retirement of Judge Allan van Gestel, who ran the BLS for its first seven years. Some...

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So This Is How Jurors Think – Who Would Have Guessed?

Jurors like to be able to submit written questions during trial (who wouldn't want that option?) Jurors like preliminary jury instructions from the judge (who wouldn't want to be oriented on the legal issues in the case at the outset?) Jurors like interim statements by counsel, rather than waiting until the end of the case (who wouldn't like to be told what's going on at various points during a long trial, rather than have to wait until the end, when it may be difficult to remember the...

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Will the FTC Appeal the D.C. Circuit's Decision in FTC v. Rambus?

At least one FTC Commissioner recently stated that he would support an appeal: As I said earlier, I personally support a petition for certiorari in Rambus. I think the D.C. Circuit’s decision is wrong and given the fact that it rests on important legal principles respecting causation in Section 2 cases. I think its implications are much broader than the standard setting context. The petition is due in mid- November and it is my hope that the Solicitor General weighs in to support us on this...

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