The high pleading standard recently set by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for whistleblower cases against companies that falsely label products as patented is weeding cases out of dockets across the country.
The court’s unanimous March 15 order in In Re BP Lubricants USA Inc. has thinned out at least 18 cases so far, according to lawyers involved in and watching the cases.
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