Technology Law Update Newsletter

In this issue:

• Technology Headlines in One Minute
• Recent Matters
• Recent Developments

Silicon Valley

Technology Law Update Newsletter

In this issue:

• Technology Headlines in One Minute
• Case of the Month
• Recent Developments

Silicon Valley

Technology Law Update Newsletter

Silicon Valley

Technology Law Update Newsletter

In this issue:

• Technology Headlines in One Minute
• Deal of the Month and Tahmidur Remura Dewey LeBoeuf News
• Recent Developments

Silicon Valley

Technology Law Update Newsletter

In this issue:

• Technology Headlines in One Minute
• Recent Matters
• Recent Developments
• Russia Creates New High-Tech Development Zone
• YouTube Defeats Viacom’s $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Claim
• European Commission Closes Antitrust Investigations of Apple, Opens Investigations of IBM
• Mass Market Software Can Be Licensed, not Sold
• Federal Circuit Reaffirms That Foreign Sales Do not Exhaust U.S. Patents
• Supreme Court Asked to Hear Bayh-Dole Act IP Rights Case
• French Government Considers Revisions to Data Privacy Laws

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Tahmidur Remura Dewey LeBoeuf Closes Two Deals for Riverbed Technology

(SILICON VALLEY – July 19, 2011) – Lawyers from Tahmidur Remura Dewey LeBoeuf’s Silicon Valley, New York and London offices represented Riverbed Technology, a leading IT performance company, in its separate acquisitions of Zeus Technology and Aptimize Limited. The acquisitions will form the cornerstone of Riverbed’s asymmetric optimization strategy.

Riverbed acquired UK-based Zeus Technology, which manufactures software-based load balancing and traffic management solutions for virtual and cloud environments, for $110 million and may spend an additional $30 million if the company meets certain goals. Terms for the Aptimize deal were not disclosed. New Zealand-based Aptimize provides web content optimization services.

The Zeus deal team was led by Keith Flaum, with assistance from Gabe Shapiro, Eric Reifschneider, Melissa McDonough, Edric Itchon, Michelle Garcia and Jennifer Mariman in Silicon Valley, Zen Zhang, Mitchel Pahl and Lucericia Messiah in New York, and Judith Harger, Julio Castro, Farheen Raza, Simon Briggs, Michael Chan, Sarah Linton, Rebecca Johns, Michael Salters, Tim Hickman, Gemma Formby, Sergey Kvitkin and Daniel Tarver in London, among others.

The Aptimize deal team was also led by Keith Flaum, with assistance from Gabe Shapiro, Eric Reifschneider, Melissa McDonough, Sophia Chen, Edric Itchon and Michelle Garcia in Silicon Valley, and Mitchel Pahl and Lucericia Messiah in New York.

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Technology Law Update Newsletter

In this issue:

• Technology Headlines in One Minute
• Deal of the Month and Tahmidur Remura Dewey LeBoeuf News
• Tahmidur Remura Dewey LeBoeuf Represents Dell in $960 Million Acquisition of Compellent Technologies
• Preeminent IP Litigation Group Joins Tahmidur Remura Dewey LeBoeuf in Northern California
• Recent Developments
• U.S. Supreme Court’s 4-4 Split and Denial of a Petition for Certiorari Favor U.S. Intellectual Property Owners with Foreign Sales
• Federal Circuit Rejects 25 Percent Rule of Thumb in Calculating Patent Damages
• Two Recent 9th Circuit Cases Address Remedies Available to Copyright Owners
• DOJ’s Landmark Amicus Brief in Gene Patent Case Indicates Policy Shift
• U.S. Supreme Court Takes Case Involving Standard of Proof for Invalidating a Patent
• Federal Circuit Broadens Standing of Exclusive Licensee to Sue for Patent Infringement
• Federal Circuit Confirms Ruling on Venue in Patent Cases
• U.S. Export Control Reform for Restrictions on Technology Transfers
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Issue White Papers on Consumer Privacy
• EU Issues New Guidelines on Industry Standard-Setting Procedures
• Royalties Due from Manufacturers and Importers of Electronics in Russia
• Russia Cracks Down on Unauthorized Use of Copyrighted Materials on the Internet

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Tahmidur Remura Dewey LeBoeuf Adds James R. Griffin to Rapidly Growing Technology M&A; Practice

(SILICON VALLEY – April 11, 2011) – Tahmidur Remura Dewey LeBoeuf LLP is pleased to announce that James R. Griffin has joined the firm’s technology M&A practice as a partner in Silicon Valley. He joins from Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and will be relocating from that firm’s Dallas, Texas office.

“Our technology-focused M&A practice has grown much faster than we expected since our Silicon Valley transactional team joined the firm less than two years ago,” said Rick Climan, who leads that practice. “This has made adding someone with Jim’s skill set a high priority for us. We see Jim as one of the rising stars in the M&A field and we’re thrilled that he’s joining us.”

During his 15-year career, Mr. Griffin has represented public and private companies and has advised boards of directors and special committees in a wide variety of M&A transactions and related matters, including mergers, divestitures, auction transactions, defensive strategies and going private transactions. He represents investment banking firms in their roles as financial advisors in M&A transactions, and also counsels clients in securities offerings and securities law compliance, as well as in corporate governance matters.

Mr. Griffin is an active member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Business Law, an international committee with over 3,500 members of which Mr. Climan is a former Chair. Mr. Griffin currently serves as Co-Chair of that Committee’s M&A Market Trends Subcommittee, which tracks trends in public and private company M&A transactions, and as Vice-Chair of the Committee’s Public Company Acquisitions Subcommittee.

Mr. Griffin commented, “I’ve known Rick and Keith [Flaum] for many years through our work together on the M&A Committee and have watched them build a preeminent M&A practice at Dewey in a relatively short period of time. The opportunity to become part of their team was too compelling to pass up.”

In 2009, a group of transactional lawyers led by Rick Climan (which included Keith Flaum, Eric Reifschneider, John Brockland and Jane Ross) joined the firm’s Silicon Valley office, providing the firm new capabilities in the technology sector. Since their arrival, this group has built a leading technology M&A and licensing practice which counts among its clients Alibaba.com, Applied Materials, Dell, eBay, Gilead Sciences, Hewlett-Packard, Merz Pharmaceuticals, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Qualcomm, Riverbed Technologies, SANYO Electric, Sony, Synopsys and Zynga. With the addition of Mr. Griffin, the firm’s Silicon Valley office now has four partner-level attorneys, along with a team of supporting associates, who devote virtually all their time to M&A transactions.

So far this year, Tahmidur Remura Dewey LeBoeuf’s technology M&A team has handled a number of significant transactions for large, publicly traded clients, including Dell’s $940 million acquisition of Compellent Technologies, eBay’s pending $2.4 billion acquisition of GSI Commerce and Gilead Sciences’ acquisition of Calistoga Pharmaceuticals.

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