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| The Supreme Court limited the
ability of companies to collect multiple royalties on their patents, the latest step by the justices
to scale back the power of patent-holders. The unanimous decision, which was helpful to customers of
Intel Corp., involved a longtime Supreme Court doctrine that in recent years had been eroded by the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., which handles patent cases
nationally. |
| (Source: The Washington Post (free reg. req'd),
2008-06-09) |
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| The age of the mega-buyout
isn't over, but it may take a number of years for it to return, the head of one of the world's top
leveraged buyout firms said. David Rubenstein, co-founder of the $81 billion Carlyle Group, said a
resurgence of large buyout activity of the kind that occurred in recent years is contingent on banks
selling inventories of loans used to finance previous deals. |
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| The United States still leads
the world in fostering technology innovation, but other countries are rapidly catching up, according
to a global survey of about 400 venture capitalists conducted by Deloitte & Touche and the National
Venture Capital Association. "Other countries want the next great startup," said Dixon Doll, general
partner in Doll Capital Management in Menlo Park, a presenter of the survey. |
| (Source: San Francisco Chronicle,
2008-06-03) |
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| Venture capitalists continue
to roll out filings of public offerings with hopes the market will give in, but public investors
haven't budged in more than two months, according to Dow Jones VentureWire reports. May was the
second consecutive month that no venture-backed companies have reached the public markets. |
| (Source: Seeking Alpha, 2008-06-02) |
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| Huge investment funds have
already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into booming financial markets for commodities like
wheat, corn and soybeans. But a few big private investors are starting to make bolder and
longer-term bets that the world's need for food will greatly increase -- by buying farmland,
fertilizer, grain elevators and shipping equipment. |
| (Source: The New York Times (free reg. req'd),
2008-06-05) |
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| The IRS has always audited
more small companies than big ones, but the gap is widening significantly -- a policy that costs
both the agency and its targets. The smallest companies saw the taxman 41 percent more often in 2007
than in 2005, and companies with $10 million to $50 million in assets were 29 percent more likely to
be investigated, according to a new study from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at
Syracuse University. |
| (Source: CNNMoney.com, 2008-06-03) |
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| A large portion of the next
generation of corporate leaders is likely to miss potential lessons of a teen's first summer job as
they skip flipping burgers, washing cars, waiting tables, bagging groceries or other menial jobs
that today's CEOs say had an influence on them. |
| (Source: USA Today (free reg. req'd),
2008-06-05) |
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| Small business is risky
business these days. Costs are rising, profits are shrinking and the ability of the big guys to keep
prices relatively lower is drawing away customers. Things are so bad that many small enterprises,
which account for about 99 percent of the country's businesses, say they are hanging by a thread
that may soon snap. |
| (Source: CNNMoney.com, 2008-06-09) |
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| Well-known family businesses
have long been part of the American vernacular: We stay at Marriotts, wear Gucci and Adidas, drive
Fords and love or loathe Wal-Mart, named for founder Sam Walton. Although well-known family
businesses may appear to be bastions of tradition, success and wealth, they often are marked by deep
and damaging conflict. |
| (Source: USA Today (free reg. req'd),
2008-06-08) |
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| Jennifer
Rhodes |
Please join us in congratulating Jennifer in her expanded role with 3DT Holdings, an
Indiana-based biomedical research company and client of Ice Miller. In addition to her new
role, Jennifer will continue to serve as a partner at Ice Miller in the Firm's Private Equity and
Venture Services Practice Group.
3DT Holdings was founded in 2007 and holds a broad portfolio of technologies, invented or
co-invented by Ghassan S. Kassab, Ph.D, that support the company's comprehensive strategy for
holistically restoring and maintaining various aspects of organ function - metabolic, mechanical,
electrical and hormonal. Most of 3DT Holding's technologies can be generally characterized as
addressing organ failure (e.g., aneurysm, congestive heart failure and obesity-related failures),
with a cardiovascular concentration. Through a collaboration of engineers and physicians, the
company develops minimally invasive medical technologies that are designed to restore the physiology
of an organ and to reduce risk, trauma, cost and procedure time.
Jennifer can continue to be reached at Ice Miller and will continue to provide legal services to
her venture capital and private equity fund clients as well as entrepreneurial companies primarily
focused on life science and technology industries.
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Ice Miller has been active in the
private equity industry for over 25 years, representing both management teams building great
companies and the private equity firms and individuals that invest in them. We have extensive
experience with all types of funds (formations and operations); mezzanine and senior secured
financings; leveraged buyouts, roll-ups, build-ups, and consolidations; divestitures and exits; and
complex litigation on behalf of investors and privately financed companies.
Read the complete profile of the Private Equity and Venture
Services Practice Group.
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