Account

Sign in to access your account and subscription

Litigation

  • Federal Circuit Defines "By Means Of"
    Doctrine of Claim Differentiation Insufficient to Overcome Plain Meaning of Claim Term
    Patentee's Failure to Connect the Dots Insufficient, But Not Sanction-Worthy

    November 01, 2014Jeffrey S. Ginsberg And Wyatt Delfino
  • Review of a case in which a husband was estopped from claiming that marital assets need distribution.

    October 01, 2014Law.com Staff
  • California Right of Publicity Claims Can Be Assigned
    Invasion of Privacy Suit Against Greenberg Glusker Law Firm Found Time-Barred
    Whither the Transformative Use Defense in Copyright Infringement Cases?

    October 01, 2014Stan Soocher
  • Federal Circuit Applies Alice to Invalidate Online Transaction Patent
    Federal Circuit Finds 'Unobtrusive' and 'Does Not Distract' Indefinite
    Federal Circuit: In Hatch-Waxman, Infringement Based Only on Final ANDA Product

    October 01, 2014Howard J. Shire And Wyatt Delfino
  • This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect between Aug. 1 and Oct. 1, including amendments to Delaware's corporation and LLC laws.

    October 01, 2014Sandra Feldman
  • Copyright trolls are in the business of acquiring the right to bring lawsuits against alleged infringers and threatening to file copyright infringement claims in order to induce rapid settlements against large groups of defendants.

    October 01, 2014Jonathan Bick
  • Over the past 10 years, government investigations have become increasingly sophisticated in analyzing electronically stored information (ESI). Federal executive departments and agencies have made substantial investments in advanced analytical systems that help investigators and prosecutors filter voluminous amounts of incoming ESI. Respondents to Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs) must recognize that the information provided will be analyzed using these powerful tools.

    October 01, 2014Sanjay Manocha
  • Franchisor's Control over System Uniformity Insufficient to Show Vicarious Liability
    Printed Names Without Signatures Satisfy Requirement That Personal Guaranty Be Signed

    October 01, 2014Cynthia M. Klaus And Susan E. Tegt
  • in Progressive Casualty Ins. v. Delaney, the court sheds light on the reasons why parties have been reluctant to accept predictive coding, the need for cooperation and transparency with one's adversary, the resulting risks of this cooperation, and highlights a key debate over best practices ' whether search terms can be used to first limit the universe of documents before predictive coding is employed.

    October 01, 2014H. Christopher Boehning And Daniel J. Toal
  • The musical tastes of several U.S. Supreme Court justices run toward opera. But as the start of its fall term approached, the court was getting an intense education in another genre: the rhythmic, slangy ' sometimes violent ' poetry of rap music.

    October 01, 2014Tony Mauro