07 May, 2024 FTC Final Rule Banning Non-Competes Faces Uncertainty By Lisl Dunlop Tasneem Chowdhury The Federal Trade Commission’s final rule banning non-competes was published in the Federal Register today, potentially becoming...
06 May, 2024 Preliminarily Enjoin Alleged Trade Secret Misappropriation Without Addressing A Time Bar Defense under the DTSA? By Nicholas Duffee Matt Murphy A trade secret owner must file a civil action under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) within three years of when the alleged trade...
06 May, 2024 Will the PTO's Proposed Expansion of Filing Settlement Agreements Help to Reduce Drug Prices? By Chad Landmon Craig Minerva In a recent Federal Register notice, the PTO announced a proposed rule requiring that any settlement agreement resolving a PTAB...
03 May, 2024 USITC Commissioner Series: The Court's FRAND Dance May Soon Reach its Finale By Brian Johnson Don Wang Ramya Auroprem Ian Swan +1 more... Show less This is part five of our USITC Commissioner Series. Read part one here, part two here, part three here and part four here. In prior posts...
02 May, 2024 Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center Issues AI Guidelines By Jeannine Sano Pan Lee On April 30, 2024, the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center published the 1st edition of its Guidelines on the Use of AI in...
02 May, 2024 AI Can’t Be an Inventor, But How About a POSA? By Don Wang Jeannine Sano On April 30, 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued a Request for Comment on how AI technology could affect the PTO’s...
02 May, 2024 How To Determine Whether “Common Sense” Could Supply a Missing Limitation? Ask a Reasonable Juror By Don Wang Jeannine Sano As previously reported, the appeal in Fullview v. Polycom, No. 23-1201, involved the question of whether common sense may be relied upon...
01 May, 2024 USITC Commissioner Series: What Divides the International Trade Commission? By Brian Johnson Don Wang Ramya Auroprem Ian Swan +1 more... Show less At the International Trade Commission, a panel of up to six Commissioners is the gatekeeper of Section 337. Before the termination of any...
30 Apr, 2024 FTC Expands Orange Book Patent Listing Challenges By Chad Landmon Matt Murphy Ross Blau As discussed in November and December, the FTC has placed improper Orange Book patent listings squarely in its crosshairs. Initially,...
29 Apr, 2024 HealthyCompetition.gov Portal Seeks Public Input on Healthcare Industry Practices By Lisl Dunlop Expanding the range of ways they can identify and investigate potential competition concerns in healthcare, DOJ, FTC, and HHS recently...
24 Apr, 2024 New PTAB Rules Under Consideration By Jeannine Sano Don Wang On April 15, 2024, in response to feedback on last year's ANPRM, Director Vidal issued an invitation to comment on the new NPRM governing...
23 Apr, 2024 Re-Evaluating Trade Secret Policies After FTC Adopts Rule Banning Non-Compete Agreements By Matt Murphy Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) adopted a final rule (3-2) banning new non-compete agreements for both senior executives...
22 Apr, 2024 Vanda Strikes Out at the Supreme Court By Chad Landmon Matt Murphy Thomas Hedemann Two weeks ago we discussed Vanda Pharmaceuticals’ ambitious cert petition asking the Supreme Court to discontinue the “reasonable...
22 Apr, 2024 Want To Be an Antitrust Scholar? Meet the ABA’s International Scholar-in-Residence By Axinn Insights Many practitioners wonder what it would be like to be an academic, diving deeply into the leading international legal and policy issues...
22 Apr, 2024 USITC Commissioner Series: Top Dissenting Issues By Don Wang This is part three of our USITC Commissioner Series. Read part one here, part two here, part four here and part five here. Following my...
19 Apr, 2024 Step Aside, FTC: NYC to Banish Non-Competes By Kail Jethmalani The FTC's proposed ban on labor non-competes has loomed since January 2023, with a vote now scheduled for April 23, 2024 in a special...