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Much of the work we do in Europe involves intellectual property (IP) and the technology, media and telecommunication (TMT) industries, either staffing litigation projects or special assignments here through Project Counsel, or via our coverage of IP and TMT  through our sister company EAM Capital Partners.  Our work has also included the financial services industry and medical device/pharmaceutical industries.

It has involved us in both the ongoing global patent and copyright litigation wars as well as proactive reviews of internal processes related to e-discovery with an eye toward reducing risks and costs associated with future litigation or government investigations.   This has afforded us the opportunity to attend several World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conferences on managing IP litigation, and the role played by e-discovery.   WIPO is a well known name in the fields of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and dispute resolution and has been establishing itself in areas like cyber law disputes, cyber forensics disputes, and … Read more

Fifty years ago, Thomas Kuhn, then a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, released a thin volume entitled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I recently attended an MIT/Harvard symposium on the effects of the book’s publication.

Kuhn challenged the traditional view of science as an accumulation of objective facts toward an ever more truthful understanding of nature. Instead, he argued, what scientists discover depends to a large extent on the sorts of questions they ask, which in turn depend in part on scientists’ philosophical commitments. Sometimes, the dominant scientific way of looking at the world becomes obviously riddled with problems; this can provoke radical and irreversible scientific revolutions that Kuhn dubbed:

“paradigm shifts”

Yes, introducing a term that has been much used and abused.

Paradigm shifts interrupt the linear progression of knowledge by changing how scientists view the world, the questions they ask of it, and the tools they use to understand it. Since scientists’ worldview after a paradigm shift is so radically different from the one that came before, the two cannot be compared according to a … Read more