With the growth in international commerce and diversity of the United States population, general counsel are increasingly finding themselves dealing with bilingual trials. Here is what you need to know.
August 01, 2016Javier A. Lopez and Maia Aron
When a key employee leaves an entertainment company, it can be traumatic for all concerned. These days, such an employee is often subject to restrictive non-compete covenants that are designed to protect the prior employer. Such covenants typically prohibit competition, solicitation and the disclosure of confidential information. In considering litigation relating to such agreements, the following tips may help guide the analysis.
August 01, 2016Cord ClaytonWhen the FTC ramped up its scrutiny of so-called "native" advertising this year, regulators faulted the department store chain Lord & Taylor for failing to disclose that seemingly objective promotions of a clothing collection were, in fact, paid for by the fashion retailer. Then in July 2016, the FTC showed that a company can make disclosures but still fall short of being fair to customers.
August 01, 2016C. Ryan BarberMicrosoft and other U.S.-based internet service providers won a major victory on July 14 at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which reversed a lower court in finding the company is not required to comply with a U.S. warrant for customer e-mails stored on a server in Dublin.
July 15, 2016Mark HamblettIssuing its second decision in Supap Kirtsaeng's long-standing dispute with John Wiley & Sons ' and its first copyright decision in nearly two years ' the SCOTUS recently clarified the applicable standard for evaluating the appropriateness of an attorney's fee award under Section 505 of the Copyright Act, holding that a district court should give substantial weight to the objective reasonableness of the losing party's position, while also taking into consideration all other circumstances relevant to the attorney's fees inquiry.
July 01, 2016James A. Trigg and Sabina VaynerFederal Circuit Remands PTAB Decision Due to Claim Construction Change
Supreme Court Restricts Challenges to PTAB's Institution Decisions and Upholds Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard in IPR ProceedingsJuly 01, 2016Jeffrey S. Ginsberg and David CooperbergThis edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect between May 1 and July 1, 2016, as well as some recent cases of interest.
July 01, 2016Sandra FeldmanThe Federal Circuit decision in Medtronic highlights the tension faced by alleged patent infringers, who must balance invalidity issues where a broad construction is desirable, against non-infringement issues, where narrow constructions are desired.
July 01, 2016Matthew Siegal and Mord M. Lewis