Apr 30, 2024 FTC Expands Orange Book Patent Listing Challenges By Matt Murphy Ross Blau As discussed in November and December, the FTC has placed improper Orange Book patent listings squarely in its crosshairs. Initially,...
Apr 29, 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...
Apr 24, 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...
Apr 23, 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...
Apr 22, 2024 Vanda Strikes Out at the Supreme Court By Matt Murphy Thomas Hedemann Two weeks ago we discussed Vanda Pharmaceuticals’ ambitious cert petition asking the Supreme Court to discontinue the “reasonable...
Apr 22, 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...
Apr 22, 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...
Apr 19, 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...
Apr 18, 2024 USITC Commissioner Series: Meet the (Vocal) Commissioners By Ramya Auroprem Brian Johnson Ian Swan Don Wang +1 more... Show less This is part two of our USITC Commissioner Series. Read part one here and part three here, part four here, and part five here. As my...
Apr 15, 2024 The Pleading Standard for Complex Technology? It's Complex. By Ted Mathias Can a patentee really just take a pass on alleging that an accused product meets a limitation in an asserted claim, even where the case...
Apr 12, 2024 Even Arbitrations Are Not Safe from the Prejudgment Remedy By Nicholas Duffee Jarod Taylor We previously wrote about the surprising power of the Connecticut Prejudgment Remedy (PJR) statute, which allows litigants to seek an...
Apr 09, 2024 Vanda Swings for the Fences and Asks the Supreme Court to Heighten the Standard for Obviousness By Matt Murphy Thomas Hedemann Among the most established standards in patent law is that obviousness requires a motivation to combine the prior art with “a reasonable...
Apr 08, 2024 A Rare Bird? TriZetto Collects $14.5M in Attorneys' Fees but No Trade Secret Damages By Matt Murphy A claimant's recovery of attorneys' fees in a trade secret action ordinarily reflects an overwhelming success at trial. The claimant...
Apr 04, 2024 Nokia and the Burden of Burdens By Ted Mathias Much like secondary considerations, non-infringing alternatives fit imperfectly within many scheduling orders. The patentee has the...