This article was excerpted from "Top Device Stories of 2009: A Year of Economic Revival and Regulatory Risk," IN VIVO, January 2010.
by Stephen Levin
While pundits and commentators debated, more broadly, whether the decade of the 2000s was the worst in history, there's little...
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