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ITC proposes modifications to e-discovery practices in Section 337 investigations

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

This fall, the U.S. International Trade Commission (Commission) proposed changes to its rules governing discovery in Section 337 investigations

Exhaustion means exhaustion: courts require complete exhaustion for excess coverage

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The idea behind excess insurance is easy to understandan excess policy provides additional coverage above the limits of the underlying, or primary policy

The English Court of Appeal decision in Toshiba Carrier may lead to more private antitrust actions in England

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 19 2012

Introduction A recent decision by the English Court of Appeal may lead to more private antitrust actions in England

District court finds appearance of logo in documentaries and stadium displays, but not video games, to be fair uses

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

A recent decision by Judge Marvin J. Garbis in the District Court of Maryland has provided further guidance as to when the use of an athletic team's copyrighted logo may or may not be a fair use under the Copyright Act

Multi-defendant joinder under the America Invents Act: much ado about nothing?

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

In September 2011, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA"), which implemented a number of changes to the U.S. patent system

Predictive coding comes of age

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2012

So-called “predictive coding”using a small number of manually-coded documents to analyze and predict appropriate coding for a much larger set of documents has become a hot topic in e-discovery

State immunity

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 19 2012

In SerVaas Incorporated v. Rafidain Bank and others 2012 3 WLR 545, the UK Supreme Court considered the scope of a state’s immunity from execution of a judgment and provided helpful guidance in relation to the “commercial purpose” exception provided for in section 13(4) of the State Immunity Act 1978 (“the Act”

Sentinel fraudulent transfer decision

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2012

In In re Sentinel Management Group, the Seventh Circuit affirmed that a debtor’s repayment of debt owed to creditors with funds taken from the debtor’s own customers’ accounts was not made with an intent to hinder, delay, or defraud the customers (who became creditors of the debtor by virtue of this comingling of funds) and thus was not an intentional fraudulent conveyance under section 548(a)(1)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code

European court holds computer programming languages and functionality unprotectable

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • November 19 2012

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg recently held in SAS Institute Inc. v. World Programming Ltd., No. C-40610 (May 2, 2012) that under the laws of the European Union, the functionality of computer programs and computer programming languages is not subject to copyright protection

Determining a debtor’s COMI

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 19 2012

Should a German national (B) who owed a German Bank (the Bank) more than 3 million be allowed to take advantage of England’s debtor-friendly bankruptcy regime to erase his liabilities to the bank?