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A look at a case involving a billboard variance.
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USPTO Continues to Demand Attorneys' Fees for District Court Appeals
Starting in 2013, the USPTO has been requesting reimbursement for the time spent by its attorneys and paralegals on district court challenges to PTAB and TTAB decisions.
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Cross-Border Litigation
<b><I>The Devil in the Details</I></b><p>Globalization has created new challenges for companies threatened by, or embroiled in, cross-border litigation. Assets and evidence, in the form of witnesses and documents, may be spread across multiple countries and legal systems. Judicial attitudes and procedures in these systems can vary as much as national political relations.
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Defamation and the Disgruntled Defendant
<b><I>Part One of a Two-Part Article </I></b><p>it is no wonder that those who find themselves on the receiving end of a product liability lawsuit and its attendant bad publicity sometimes fight back. So it was in a recent case, in which a company, publicly accused by a plaintiff's lawyers of using non–FDA-approved medical devices, fought back by bringing a defamation suit against the opposing attorneys.
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Expanding the Scope of Good Guy Guarantees in NY
Good Guy Guarantees are intended to protect landlords against defaulting and insolvent commercial tenants. However,iIn <I>Bri Jen Realty Corp. v. Altman</I>, New York's Second Appellate Department construed a Good Guy Guarantee to hold a guarantor liable for rent for 11 months after the tenant surrendered the premises.
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NY 'Facebook' Decision Leaves Many Questions Open
In a newsworthy case in which retail giant Amazon and social media developer Foursquare Labs, among others, submitted friend of the court briefs, the New York Court of Appeals affirmed decisions which denied Facebook's motion to quash warrants issued to it by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and denied Facebook's motion to compel disclosure of the district attorney's supporting affidavit to its warrant application.
Landlord & Tenant
In-depth analysis of a case involving a landlord's consolidated holdover proceedings against a charitable institution leasing four residential apartments.
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What 'Originalist' Viewpoints May Mean for Patent Law
The landscape for patent law has changed more quickly over the last five years than it had in preceding decades. Recent cases have profoundly changed the way courts and the USPTO treat patents and patent applications. The U.S. Supreme Court will have ample opportunity, if it chooses, to revisit the issues that have been raised by these cases over the next few terms.
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Med Mal News
A look at the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017.
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IP News
District Court's Decision Retroactively Excusing Failure to Mark Patented Products Vacated By Federal Circuit<br>Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB's Unpatentability Findings Made In an IPR Proceeding Despite Prior Judicial Opinions Upholding Validity
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