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Off-Label Promotion and Product Liability
The pharmaceutical industry has recently felt empowered and emboldened by one final court decision and another pending case that would seemingly allow companies to distribute, proactively, information about unapproved uses, i.e. , off-label, so long as the information is truthful and not misleading. However, companies must, nevertheless, consider potential product liability ramifications. There is no indication that, because firms may now be allowed certain latitude in one area, they are immune from product liability exposure.
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Court Watch
Court Dismisses Franchise Act Claims <br>Court Grants Franchisor's Motion to Compel Arbitration
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Trans-Jurisdictional Transactions
In this three-part series, we are examining the highly complex dispute resolution issues that companies face when engaging in cross-border transactions. The unique nature of these multi-jurisdictional litigation issues can stymie even the most experienced counsel, and a keen understanding of the laws and issues behind such matters is vital to a successful result.
Public Interest In Rosa Parks Overrides Publicity Right
In an opinion that reads like a biography, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit used Rosa Parks' starring role in the civil rights movement to justify ruling against a nonprofit corporation that owns her name and likeness. The appeals court held that the nonprofit cannot pursue a common-law right of publicity case against Target Corp. over the retailer's selling books, movies and a plaque depicting Parks' life.
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Does Your Employee Handbook Help or Hurt You?
A handbook that was once the foundation of good employment practices may now violate federal law, and nothing has changed except how the General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (the GC) interprets the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
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Marketing Tech: Embracing IoT and Big Data Means Future Success
These days, we are continually being bombarded by one new tech concept after another ' the most current being IoT (or the Internet of Things) and Big Data. To feel secure moving our businesses forward among the onslaught of all these changes, it is necessary to simplify our understanding to bring peace to the progress of our quickly advancing world.
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Off-Label Promotion and Product Liability
The pharmaceutical industry has recently felt empowered by one final court decision and another pending case that would seemingly allow companies to distribute, proactively, information about off-label uses. However, there is no indication that, because firms may now be allowed certain latitude in one area, they are immune from product liability exposure.
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Anti-Concurrent Causation Clauses
The interpretation of ACC clauses by the courts is dependent upon the specific policy wording, the pertinent facts, general principles of contract interpretation, the venue of the lawsuit, and most importantly, the particular state's approach to causation.
Federal Circuit's Opinion In <i>In re Tam</i>
Among the most treasured and jealously guarded freedoms in the United States is freedom of speech. In the course of protecting that freedom, U.S. courts have found themselves permitting almost all manner of speech, even that which is arguably offensive or deplorable. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court has given ever greater deference to individuals' and groups' rights to express themselves.
IP News
Federal Circuit: Even If Experts on Both Sides Agreed on an Altered Claim Construction During Trial, Relying on That More Detailed Claim Interpretation During JMOL Is an Impermissible Reconstruction<br>Federal Circuit: USPTO Decision to Initiate CBM Review Not Reviewable By Federal Circuit, But Decision To Qualify a Patent As a CBM Patent Is
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