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Daniel Woolsey is being sentenced for felony in California. He was caught selling pirated copies of Autodesk’s AutoCAD(R) software. Additional counts for selling other pirated software, including Adobe PhotoShop, were dropped as part of a plea bargain agreement. “This case should be a wake up call to copyright violators that they can face serious consequences. Autodesk will continue to work closely with law enforcement agencies . . . to protect our valuable intellectual property . . . .” said Sandy Boulton, director of Piracy Prevention at Autodesk.

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Licensing is a key business strategy. It’s a way to maximize the earnings from inventions and creative works, which are called intellectual property or “IP.”.

What is licensing?

Licensing is when you grant some rights to intellectucal property “IP” that you own. It is really a partnership of mutual cooperation between the licensor, who owns the IP, and the licensee, who is given the right to use it for certain purposes.

Question: What are royalties?

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The federal estate marital deduction provides for a deduction from a decedent’s gross estate for property passing to a surviving spouse by will or trust, or by a qualified terminable interest property (“QTIP”) marital trust. The marital deduction is unlimited in amount.

A QTIP marital trust properly drafted in compliance with the Internal Revenue Code has become an extremely popular device to avoid payment of federal estate taxes upon the death of the first spouse. A QTIP trust is particularly desirable for spouses in second marriages where each spouse desires to leave as much of his or her estate to his or her children and/or heirs.

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With the advent of the Internet revolution, the latest and greatest corporate war is clearly between Google and Microsoft. While that is no surprise to anyone, there are some interesting aspects of this battle.

One of the more humorous aspects of the war between Google and MSN is the concept of the favored party. Many people, particularly webmasters, view MSN as the evil empire. In contrast, Google is seen as the plucky new player on the block, who is rebelling against the Empire. While this classical Star Wars scenario sounds great at first, it simply isn’t very accurate.

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You have won your case in court and have the eviction notice in your hand. Finally, you think, you have finished spending time, money, and emotions on the eviction process. At this point, you probably don’t care what happens to the tenant’s belongings. You just want it out of your place. Unfortunately, this is the beginning of the next phase of your eviction - removing the tenant’s belongings from your property.

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If you are willing to claim personal injury compensation and are in search of a personal injury lawyer, you should avoid doing the mistake of choosing “just any” personal injury lawyer.

Every personal injury lawyer is specialized in a particular area. For instance, personal injury lawyers who have been practicing the medical malpractice law for years might not have any experience of handling workers’ compensation cases.

In the field of medicine, there are super specialized doctors to provide a special type of medical care. Similarly, every personal injury lawyer is specialized in a particular personal injury law.

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