Business Executive Arrested and Charged with Bribing Venezuelan Officials
September 01, 2018Colleen Snow
Federal Circuit Remands for Further Proceedings to Determine Whether RPX's Petitions for IPR Were Time Barred For Failing to Identify Its Client As a 'Real Party in Interest'
Federal Circuit Holds that Common Law Tribal Sovereign Immunity Cannot Shield a Patent in IPR Proceedings,br>Federal Circuit Holds that an Unsuccessful IPR Petitioner Must Show 'Concrete Plans' for Future Potentially-Infringing Activity in Order to Demonstrate Article III Standing to Appeal PTAB's IPR DecisionSeptember 01, 2018Jeffrey S. Ginsberg and Abhishek BapnaOn April 26, 2018, a unanimous Court of Appeals held that apartments vacated between 1997 and 2011 will be considered luxury deregulated where the legal regulated rent was $2,000 or more at the time the incoming tenant moved in. The court reversed the First Department, which had held that such apartments would not be deregulated unless the rent was $2,000 or more at the time the outgoing tenant vacated.
August 01, 2018Jeffrey TurkelUnique Circumstances Require Rent Recomputation
City Human Rights Law Requires Landlord to Convert Window Into Wheelchair Accessible Entrance
“As Is” Clause Does Not Bar Claim That Landlord Intentionally Caused Defective ConditionsAugust 01, 2018ssalkinLPC's Denial of Hardship Application Upheld
Developer's Failure to Obtain Final Decision Deprives Federal Court of Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Spot Zoning and SEQRA Challenges RejectedAugust 01, 2018ssalkinPurchaser Adequately Alleged Concealment of Defects
Space Allocation Cannot Be Changed Without Unanimous Vote; Unjust Enrichment Claim SurvivesAugust 01, 2018ssalkinNo Easement Created
Grant Created Valid and Alienable Possibility of Reverter
Contract Vendee Entitled to Specific Performance
Questions of Fact About Scope of MortgageAugust 01, 2018ssalkinFans of movies about fictional superheroes are probably familiar with Captain America and his miraculous shield. Recently, however, his shield showed up in a most unlikely place: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
August 01, 2018Lawrence E. AsheryCritical to any counsel working to prevent a cyber attack or respond to a successful cyber intrusion is an understanding of why and how to properly utilize both attorney-client and work-product privilege.
August 01, 2018Robert W. Anderson and Eric B. LevineThe U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina dismissed a conversion counterclaim by rapper Chingy against his former business manager Leslie King, who is a lawyer, on the ground that the artist hadn't established that a royalty purchase agreement he signed with the lawyer was void for allegedly violating the state's attorney ethics rule. However, the district court allowed the artist to pursue the ethics rule as an affirmative defense in the underlying lawsuit the attorney's music company has filed against Chingy.
August 01, 2018Stan Soocher
