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Troutman Pepper | USA | 6 Oct 2022
Careful contract drafting could mean recovery of liquidated damages and actual and consequential damages
The case involved cleanup and environmental remediation of a vacant factory contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls and asbestos. The town of New…
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 12 Dec 2018
Court Sends Networking Patent Inventorship Dispute to Bench Trial
In order to qualify as an inventor on a U.S. patent, a person must contribute to the conception of the invention as embodied in one or more of the…
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | USA | 6 Dec 2018
CFTC v. Wilson—Court Rules against CFTC in Commodities Manipulation Bench Trial: Court Holds that Open-Market Bids and Offers Made with an Honest Desire to Trade Cannot Support Liability under the Commodity Exchange Act
In a November 30, 2018 decision made public on Monday of this week, Judge Richard Sullivan, formerly of the Southern District of New York (now Second…
Steptoe & Johnson LLP | USA | 19 Nov 2018
Supreme Court Grants Cert in Case Over Census Citizenship Question; Government Asks to Halt SDNY Proceedings
On Friday, the Supreme Court, as expected, granted certiorari in the challenge pending before Judge Furman over the addition of a citizenship question…
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP | USA | 16 Nov 2018
Findings of Fact In a Quasi-Judicial Land Use Proceeding, Question Mark (?)
An interesting “development” - so to speak - took place recently as to a quasi-judicial board’s obligations with regard to special and conditional use…
Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice LLC | USA | 4 Oct 2018
Plead It or Concede It: Court May Not Raise Affirmative Defense Sua Sponte
The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District recently confirmed the long-standing principle that a party's failure to plead even a valid…
Haynes and Boone LLP | USA | 28 Aug 2018
Reliance on Inherently Disclosed Embodiments in Prior Art is Dangerous
Prior art disclosures, and particularly non-patent literature, can be relied on for more than what they explicitly disclose. For example, many prior…
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | USA | 23 May 2018
5 Key Takeaways from a Defense Verdict in a 15-Year MLB Stadium Case
In December 2017, Pennsylvania's intermediate appellate court affirmed a defense verdict for the design/construction manager of a major league…
Venable LLP | USA | 5 Feb 2018
Federal Circuit clarifies that wilful infringement must be decided by jury
The Federal Circuit recently handed down a decision in which it clarified that wilful infringement is an issue to be decided by a jury, rather than a district court. It held that the district court had erred in excluding as unreasonable prior art evidence concerning the defendant's litigation defences, because that evidence may also have been relevant to its subjective intent or knowledge at......
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | USA | 5 Dec 2017
Can Juries Decide Patent Eligibility Under 35 U.S.C. 101?
No provision of the Patent Act has been more frequently litigated over the last several years than 35 U.S.C. 101. After not having decided a 101 case…
