While residential cases will grab the headlines, commercial property owners, managers and their attorneys should know that financially troubled tenants will be making news of their own. Armed with the hope of keeping their business afloat, they will unveil, or expand on, defenses to mitigate the pandemic's financial impact and to save their leases.
As intellectual property continues to influence business operations, more companies are considering defensive patent pools as a strategic measure to guard against threats that can stifle innovation and growth for both businesses and industries.
Tenant Entitled to Terminate Lease When Premises Were Not Broom Clean Provision Ending Discounted Rate If Tenant Pays Late Is Unenforceable
Vincent Cox of Ballard Spahr in Los Angeles and Scott Ponce of Holland & Knight in Miami prevailed recently in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh…
Law firms are waiting to see how new trends like working remotely play out for office space post-pandemic, but that wait-and-see approach has created a tenant's market with opportunities for proactive firms in the short term.
Eleventh Circuit Flirts With Nominative Fair Use Test in Alan Parsons Project Trademark Case
Federal Circuit Wasn't Chicken to Grant Equitable Intervening Right in Poultry Processing Equipment Case A dispute between the two titans in the poultry processing equipment market led the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to construe the term "protection of investments" in 35 U.S.C. §252.
Chapter 11 work can be episodic and uneven, and while litigation skills are essential, it is also quite specialized. So, given these qualities, how does a bankruptcy litigator go about moving from one law firm to another, and what are the pitfalls?
On March 12, the Federal Circuit granted Janssen Pharmaceutica's motion to dismiss Mylan Laboratories' appeal and denied Mylan's request for mandamus relief, holding that it lacked jurisdiction to hear Mylan's appeal.
