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  • The recent merger of Wyeth and Pfizer illustrates some of the problems arising from these mergers and the resolution of these problems. Part One of this article addressed deferred compensation and performance share awards. The conclusion herein addresses options.

    April 29, 2010Mary Cushing Doherty
  • Who's doing what; who's going where.

    April 29, 2010ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
  • This article addresses problems that commonly occur in international custody disputes when one of the parents and the children are in, or return to, the U.S., there is no custody order in place, and the other parent removes the children to a foreign country.

    April 29, 2010Shirley F. Keisler
  • Highlights of the latest insurance news from around the country.

    April 29, 2010Stacie B. Lieberman
  • Courts across the country, and particularly in California, have long been reluctant to construe standard commercial general liability insurance policies to provide coverage for patent infringement lawsuits. However, the Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Hyundai Motor v. Nat. Union Fire Ins., suggests that, at least when the patented invention is itself a method of advertising, an insurer will owe a duty to defend a patent infringement lawsuit under the "advertising injury" provisions of many standard CGL policies.

    April 29, 2010David B. Goodwin and Danielle L. Goldstein
  • Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.

    April 29, 2010Compiled by Howard J. Shire and Brian Beck
  • Since Jan. 1, 2010, over 130 cases have been filed that accuse defendants of false patent marking. This recent tidal wave of false marking litigation contrasts with the relative calm of the past in which only approximately 40 false patent marking cases total were filed from 2000'2009. What caused the underwater earthquake? The decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Forest Group, Inc. v. Bon Tool Co.

    April 29, 2010Joseph J. Berghammer and Timothy J. Rechtien