This is the first installment of a two-part series on the proposed move from a patent system granting priority of patent rights based upon invention dates to a system in which priority is based primarily upon filing dates. This installment discusses the history behind the current first-to-invent system, the current patent reform movement, and the basic proposed change to the current system.
You Tube Suit Threatens Online Communication
Yahoo Files Suit Against Lottery Spammers
Recently, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed a directed verdict based on Daubert principles in a shoulder dystocia case. The court reasoned that the expert's testimony was 'unreliable' because of improper use of the 'differential diagnosis' method and the fact that he made unsupported leaps from assumed facts to conclusions without evidentiary or medical/scientific support. Here's an analysis of the court's thinking.
In a stunning turnaround today, separate appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas reversed verdicts against Merck from some of the earliest trials involving the now-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
No CAN-SPAM Claims When ISP Cannot Show Real Adverse Effects
Court Says Departing Worker's Computer Access No CFAA Breach
No Impleading ISP, P2P Network on Unrelated Torts
Roommate Site Not Immune under CDA From FHA Claims
Non-residents Using Others' Trademarks for Web Traffic Answers in Owner's Forum
Copyright Infringement/File Sharing
Copyright Infringement/Summary Judgment<
Royalty Suit/Right to Trial by Jury
Sampling Suits/Sound Recordings
BLANKET SONG LICENSES/INTERNET SERVICES
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT/SETTLEMENT OFFER
The California Court of Appeal, Second District, decided that the term 'Purchaser' in an agreement for 'Walt Disney Productions' to purchase rights in the novel 'Who Censored Roger Rabbit?' and its characters didn't apply to Disney's subsidiaries.
On April 8, 2008, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a significant decision concerning the authority of federal regulatory agencies to pre-empt state tort claims, Colacicco v. Apotex Inc., No. 6-5148.
The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently decertified a class of more than 11,000 plaintiffs in the Silzone heart valve litigation on the basis that individual questions regarding causation would predominate over any common issues related to the truth or falsity of the alleged misrepresentations.
