May 2008
An Overview of Twombly on Patent Pleading DisputesBy Dion Messer
In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, an antitrust case, the U.S. Supreme Court put to rest the five-decade-old pleading standard from Conley v. Gibson that “a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim that would entitle him to relief.”
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