January 2025

Plea Deal May Be Best Strategy For SCOTUSBlog Publisher

By Asha Glover ( January 29, 2025, 6:45 PM EST) — Given the severity of the charges against SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein, an expert U.S. Supreme Court lawyer accused of paying gambling debts with funds from his law firm and dodging taxes, a plea deal is likely his best shot at avoiding decades of prison […]

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Last week’s conferences in Asia

Last week I gave two presentations in Asia.  On Monday, I presented The Law and Economics of Wrongful Patent Assertion at IEEM (Instituto de Estudos Europeus de Macau)’s 20th Intellectual Property Seminar, “Proportionality in Intellectual Property Law,” in Macau, S.A.R.  The presentation summarized some of my current book project, Wrongful Patent Assertion:  A Comparative Law

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Fed. Circ. Inherency Ruling Refines Obviousness Framework

By Lawrence Kass ( January 29, 2025, 6:51 PM EST) — Patent practitioners have long grappled with how to analyze inherent properties in obviousness determinations — particularly whether inherent properties require their own “reasonable expectation of success” analysis…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of

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Last week’s conferences in Asia

Last week I gave two presentations in Asia.  On Monday, I presented The Law and Economics of Wrongful Patent Assertion at IEEM (Instituto de Estudos Europeus de Macau)’s 20th Intellectual Property Seminar, “Proportionality in Intellectual Property Law,” in Macau, S.A.R.  The presentation summarized some of my current book project, Wrongful Patent Assertion:  A Comparative Law

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Full Fed. Circ. Won’t Allow MSN To Launch Generic Entresto

By Dani Kass ( January 29, 2025, 6:34 PM EST) — The Federal Circuit is standing by its decision to bar MSN Pharmaceuticals from launching a generic version of Novartis’ bestseller, the cardiovascular drug Entresto, as Novartis tries to persuade the court that it deserves an injunction through July. … Law360 is on it, so you

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Last week’s conferences in Asia

Last week I gave two presentations in Asia.  On Monday, I presented The Law and Economics of Wrongful Patent Assertion at IEEM (Instituto de Estudos Europeus de Macau)’s 20th Intellectual Property Seminar, “Proportionality in Intellectual Property Law,” in Macau, S.A.R.  The presentation summarized some of my current book project, Wrongful Patent Assertion:  A Comparative Law

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Hollywood Talent Co. Calls CAA’s Info Theft Suit Retaliation

By Rachel Scharf ( January 29, 2025, 6:24 PM EST) — Upstart Hollywood talent management firm Range Media Partners has asked a California judge to toss Creative Artists Agency’s information theft and poaching claims, saying the lawsuit is a mere power grab and retaliation by the entertainment industry behemoth “to penalize its longtime employees for

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Last week’s conferences in Asia

Last week I gave two presentations in Asia.  On Monday, I presented The Law and Economics of Wrongful Patent Assertion at IEEM (Instituto de Estudos Europeus de Macau)’s 20th Intellectual Property Seminar, “Proportionality in Intellectual Property Law,” in Macau, S.A.R.  The presentation summarized some of my current book project, Wrongful Patent Assertion:  A Comparative Law

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Retailers Back Intel, OpenSky In VLSI IP Fight At Fed. Circ.

By Adam Lidgett ( January 29, 2025, 6:12 PM EST) — A retail trade association has urged the Federal Circuit to affirm the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s decision not to throw out a challenge to a VLSI chip patent that ended up being invalidated, saying there was nothing wrong with allowing Intel to join

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Last week’s conferences in Asia

Last week I gave two presentations in Asia.  On Monday, I presented The Law and Economics of Wrongful Patent Assertion at IEEM (Instituto de Estudos Europeus de Macau)’s 20th Intellectual Property Seminar, “Proportionality in Intellectual Property Law,” in Macau, S.A.R.  The presentation summarized some of my current book project, Wrongful Patent Assertion:  A Comparative Law

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