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The Legal Intelligencer

Stradley Grabs Life Sciences IP Pro From Pepper Hamilton

Paul Legaard, who joined Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young this month, said Philadelphia could soon catch up with Boston as a life sciences hub.
23 minute read

International Edition

Allen & Overy recruits AstraZeneca China GC for Shanghai base

Allen & Overy (A&O) has hired AstraZeneca's China general counsel (GC) as a partner for its intellectual property (IP) practice in Shanghai.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

Federal Circuit Again Asked to Limit Relitigation of PTAB Issues

Illumina Inc. initially lost its request to limit invalidity challenges in district court that were already considered by the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
13 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Junker v. Med. Components, Inc., PICS Case No. 17-0105 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 21, 2016) Goldberg, J. (17 pages).

By | January 27, 2017
Court, in patent infringement litigation, found that defendants adequately pleaded inequitable conduct and fraud when they alleged that plaintiff stole a third party's drawings and filed them with the PTO as if they were his own but struck those paragraphs of defendants' third amended answer that related to an "on bar" sale and "incorrect inventorship" invalidity allegations because they exceeded the judge's order granting leave to file a third amended answer. Motion granted in part and denied in part.
4 minute read

The Recorder

How Patent Policy Made Qualcomm an Antitrust Target

The chipmaker has been hit with suits in the U.S. and China following an FTC action in the waning days of the Obama administration.
15 minute read

Texas Lawyer

McDermott Four-Lawyer IP Team Moves to Vorys Sater

Group of four patent lawyers leave McDermott, Will & Emery to join Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease.
8 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Judge Recommends OmniVision Patent Suit Remain in Del.

A federal judge on Wednesday recommended that a patent dispute over semiconductor devices used in video game accessories be kept in Delaware, a major roadblock in OmniVision Technologies Inc.'s bid to have the litigation shipped to California.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

In Goldman Programmer's Case, a High-Tech Test of Low-Tech Law

Lawyers who have followed Sergey Aleynikov's prosecution for stealing Goldman Sachs' source code say it highlights the difficulty of adapting old laws to fit new crimes.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Disparagement and Trademarks at the US Supreme Court

Try to make sense of this: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) refused to register the trademark "HAVE YOU HEARD THAT SATAN IS A REPUBLICAN?" because it disparaged the Republican party. But when an application was filed for the mark "THE DEVIL IS A DEMOCRAT," the USPTO agreed that the mark could be registered.
12 minute read

Legaltech News

Personal Cloud Applications Continue to Imperil Company Trade Secrets

While many employees use personal cloud applications like Dropbox and Google Drive, Free Country v. Drennen shows the risks these applications can have.
9 minute read

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