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IP Atty-Client Privilege Faces Challenge After Halo

By Andrew Strickler ( January 20, 2017, 7:01 PM EST) -- Alleged patent infringers who use an advice-of-counsel defense to fend off willful infringement claims may face a higher risk of seeing some attorney-client communications revealed to plaintiffs following a recent North Carolina federal court ruling, which comes on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2016 Halo decision easing the standard for willful infringement findings....

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