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  • Apple, Trader Joe’s, Google, JCI: Intellectual Property

    Apple Inc., the maker of the iPad and iPhone, applied for a patent on a battery aimed at using space within a mobile device more efficiently.

  • Dotcom Accused of Crimes Nonexistent Under U.S. Law, Lawyers Say

    The U.S. is accusing Kim Dotcom, the founder of the cloud-storage service Megaupload.com, of crimes that don’t exist under U.S. law, his lawyers said.

  • Ukraine Joins China as Targets in U.S. Global Piracy Fight

    Ukraine’s copyright protections have deteriorated to a level where the Obama administration may consider trade sanctions, according to a U.S. report that also cites China for trade-secret theft.

  • Studios Respond to Mass Shootings With Film Ratings Campaign

    Hollywood studios, responding to calls for less violence in films following mass shootings last year, unveiled a campaign to help parents screen what children see in movie theaters.

  • King & Spalding, K&L Gates, Skadden Arps: Business of Law

    King & Spalding LLP recruited Australian arbitration and construction lawyer Peter Megens as a partner in the Singapore office starting in July. Megens was at King & Wood Mallesons in Melbourne, where he was co-head of the firm’s arbitration practice and a senior member of its construction team.

  • U.S. Swaps ‘Reach,’ Iosco Proposal, SEC Fee: Compliance

    Nine overseas finance officials urged U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew to limit the cross- border reach of Dodd-Frank Act swaps rules that they say are fragmenting the $639 trillion global market.

  • Bank Regulator to Recuse from Volcker to Avoid Conflict

    The top lawyer at the U.S. regulator of national banks left a consulting job where she was paid $1.2 million and advised some of the biggest firms now overseen by her agency, her financial disclosures show.

  • Alito, Matthew Morrison, Model Runway Dogs: D.C. Scene

    Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito walked among tables named for Parisian streets at the Library of Congress Friday night.

  • Scene in D.C.: Dodd, George Stevens, Jim Kimsey, Missoni

    “The friends who come to the book party are really your friends,” said George Stevens Jr. last night, referring to a crowd that included former Defense Secretary William Cohen, AOL co-founder Jim Kimsey, King and Spalding LLP’s Lloyd Hand and Motion Picture Association of America Chairman and Chief Executive Chris Dodd.

  • Romney, Perry, Cain Square Off on Economy in Debate (Transcript)

    Republican presidential candidates promised to deliver the leadership that Washington needs to overcome congressional gridlock as they pitched their plans for jobs and taxes and called for the removal of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during a debate tonight at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Participating in the event, sponsored by Bloomberg News and the Washington Post, were former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney; Texas Governor Rick Perry; former pizza magnate Herman Cain; Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman; Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker; Ron Paul, a Texas representative; former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman. Moderators of the debate included PBS talk show host Charlie Rose, Bloomberg reporter

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