Delaware Business Court Insider | News
By Tom McParland | February 20, 2018
A Delaware federal judge on Feb. 16 invalidated a patent held by D&M Holdings Inc. as the company continues to face off against rival wireless speaker-maker Sonos Inc. in a protracted infringement fight.
Delaware Business Court Insider | News
By Tom McParland | February 20, 2018
A Delaware federal judge on Feb. 16 overturned a massive $2.5 billion jury verdict against Gilead Sciences Inc., finding that a patent held by a unit of Merck & Co. Inc. was too broad to be valid.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Lawrence E. Ashery | February 20, 2018
The Chevron deference doctrine, based on the U.S. Supreme Court case of Chevron, U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837 (1984) requires a federal court to defer to a federal agency's interpretation of a federal statute in its area of expertise.
By Harper Batts and Chris Ponder | February 20, 2018
In Part One of our article, we focused on lessons gleaned from the Waymo v. Uber trial on how to be better prepared to protect a company's trade secrets. In this part, we focus on lessons from the trial that can help companies litigating trade secrets claims, as a plaintiff or a defendant.
By Erin Wiggins | February 20, 2018
What can automotive industry legal leaders do to protect their organizations from patent trolls that want only to profit from broad ranging suits that are about payouts and payoffs—a “cost of business” that has given other industries nothing but grief and expense? Adapt and prepare.
By Karen L. Dunn and Meredith R. Dearborn | February 15, 2018
Waymo v. Uber—the recent battle royale over the future of self-driving car technology—ended in a settlement between the parties, but an important legal question remains decidedly unsettled. In the words of Judge William H. Alsup, who presided over the case: “Is an engineer really supposed to get a frontal lobotomy before they go to the next job?”
By Nimalka Wickramasekera and Jason Hamilton | February 13, 2018
While Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group, challenging the constitutionality of “inter partes review” (IPR) proceedings, has received the lion's share of coverage, the U.S. Supreme Court's other IPR case—SAS Institute v. Matal—warrants attention.
By Scott Graham | February 12, 2018
Finjan Inc. and Blue Coat Systems Inc. have called off their second patent infringement trial over cybersecurity technology.The parties had been…
By Scott Graham | February 12, 2018
Lawyers for Arista, led by Tensegrity's Matthew Powers, are the latest to attack assignor estoppel, the equitable doctrine that forbids an inventor who sells his or her patent from then turning around and attacking the patent's validity.
By Jonathan Ringel | February 9, 2018
The awards that have the new deadline of Feb. 26 will recognize excellence at midsize and small firms in a host of categories. But lawyers from any-sized organization will be considered for Attorney of the Year, On the Rise and Lifetime Achievement.
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