Patently O

JULY 26, 2021

Trade secrecy rights are an extension of these general privacy and began as common law. These rights were further developed and codified in the various states, especially with the Uniform Law (UTSA) movement that gained traction in the 1980s and 1990s. — Dennis Crouch (@patentlyo) July 26, 2021. In 2016, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. Even as successful cases against governments have blossomed, private suits face significant barriers.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 11, 2024

Previous editions of the report were published in September 2021 , March 2022 , and May 2023. Key findings from the report include: Counties in Ohio are continuing to adopt binding resolutions to create restricted areas where large wind or solar projects are prohibited pursuant to Senate Bill 52 of 2021 (S.B.

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The Fashion Law

JULY 19, 2021

District Court for the Central District of California states that the parties “agreed to a settlement in principle and will finalize the outstanding matters before the pretrial conference scheduled for July 16, 2021, with the district judge.” The parties’ trial was scheduled to begin on Monday. The case is Gianni Versace S.r.l.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

On September 20, 2021, the Seventh Circuit ruled in Fernandez v. 20, 2021), that a cause of action filed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by employees of Kerry, Inc., Kerry, Inc., 21-1067 (7th Cir.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 16, 2024

Abiru to the Nigerian Supreme Court and highlighted its significance for the development of Nigerian conflict of laws. Yekini and I in our blog post , clearly stated: “Nevertheless, this is not to suggest that Justice Abiru’s expertise is limited to conflict of laws, nor that other Nigerian judges do not possess expertise in conflict of laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Tennessee is not only the Supreme Court’s first oral argument of the 2021-22 term, but it is also the first time that states have asked the court to weigh in on how they should share an interstate aquifer. Notably, both sets of amici — the United States and three water law professors — agreed with the defendants.

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Patently O

MAY 17, 2021

The holding is important–repeated and specific threats of litigation by an out-of-state patentee can be sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction for a declaratory judgment action. [2] Personal Jurisdiction as Patent Law Specific but Not Patent Law Specific. In the U.S., Luker , 45 F.3d 3d 1541, 1546 (Fed.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Written by Akanksha Oak, Jindal Global Law School, India Introduction The modern commerce landscape faces a significant challenge: the widespread infringement of intellectual property (“IP”) rights due to online interactions that enable instant global access. Brainlink International Inc., [1] Reshma Collection. [2]

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 8, 2021

In Nigeria jurisdiction in matters of conflict of laws (called “territorial jurisdiction” by many Nigerian judges) also applies to matters of disputes between members of a political party in the inter-state context. [1]. The cause of action arose within the Federal Capital Territory or. In Oshiomhole v Salihu (No.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 5, 2021, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law amendments to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) that significantly expand causes of action available to older workers.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. Chevron Corp.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In February 2021, US Inventor and others collectively sued the USPTO asking the court to order the USPTO to issue rulemaking regarding discretionary considerations at the institution stage of AIA Trials. Case Dismissed : Judge Gilstrap dismissed the case in July 2021 — agreeing with the USPTO that the plaintiffs lacked standing.

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The Fashion Law

APRIL 26, 2021

Facebook asserts that “since 2015, to protect Facebook and Instagram users and in response to several reports by Gucci and other brands, [it] has taken multiple enforcement actions against [Kokhtenko] for violating its Terms, including as recently as April 26, 2021.” The case is Facebook, Inc., and Gucci America, Inc.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

To govern certain disputes after the expiration of the Covenant Term, the MCA further stated: [T]he Parties agree that all Potential Actions arising under U.S. The Covenant Term expired on June 21, 2021, triggering the start of the two-year forum selection clause. The MCA “states clearly that ‘all Potential Actions arising under U.S.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 1, 2021

Fast forward to January 2021, and Unicolors filed a petition to the Supreme Court, asserting that the “case is ripe for review because it is a matter of first impression for this Court and involves a clear intra-circuit conflict in the application of a federal statute.” H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P.,

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At the Lectern

JUNE 24, 2021

The appellate court also found standing to appeal by non-parties to the superior court action even though they had not filed a motion to vacate the judgment, and it voided the judgment against them because they weren’t parties even though they had funded the lawsuit. Superior Court (2021) 11 Cal.5th Renteria (see here and here ).

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 24, 2025

While both decisions canvassed other private international law issues, the primary focus of this comment is the Courts approach to construing the scope of dispute resolution clauses. Subsequently, Asiana also pursued actions against GGS and the directors of the Gate Gourmet Group. The chairman was later convicted in Korean proceedings.

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Patently O

MARCH 21, 2021

The second provision relates to appellate courts: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall have exclusive jurisdiction over final decisions from US district courts “in any civil action arising under. Sasso (Supreme Court 2021). ” 28 U.S.C. See, for example, Gunn v. Minton , 568 U.S. III, Section 2.

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

The plaintiff, Silvia Diaz-Roa , filed the lawsuit against Hermes Law , a Texas law firm, and ClaimDeck , a litigation management system for insurers and insurance-defense firms that spun out of Hermes Law. I emailed Dwayne Hermes asking if he wished to respond but I have not heard back from him.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

S. _ (2021), the U.S. The respondents brought the suit under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), which provides federal courts jurisdiction to hear claims brought “by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.” In Nestlé USA, Inc. Doe , 593 U.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

In 2021, at the age of 30, he filed his lawsuit and after two rounds of amended pleadings, filed a second amended complaint in January 2022. 2255, which allows victims of child pornography to bring a civil cause of action. He turned 18 in 2009. Mr. Elden asserts a single claim against the defendants for violation of 18 U.S.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 07, 2021, the Federal Regional Court of the Fourth Region (TRF4) – one of Brazil’s federal courts of appeal – decided what should be the competent jurisdiction to hear the case of IEA v. In July 2021, the Federal District Court of Curitiba issued an order rejecting jurisdiction and transferring the case to the Court of Amazonas.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Another noteworthy case is In re Shanghai International Corporation (2021) Hu 03 Xie Wai Ren No.1, Each case has been reviewed and more details, such as the grounds, the case numbers, and causes of action, have been added. Zhou v Jing [2023] NSWSC 214 (Australia), [21] Yin v Wu [2023] VSCA 130 (Australia) [22] ).

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Patently O

MARCH 13, 2021

Supreme Court 2021). A person who claims to have been improperly omitted from the list of inventors on a patent may bring a cause of action for correction of inventorship under 35 U.S.C. § Pannu remains good law and was extensively cited and quoted in the Federal Circuit’s Ono opinion. Ono Pharmaceutical Co.,

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Lady Brownlie [2021] UKSC 45 (“ Brownlie II ”), the Supreme Court held as a matter of ratio by a 4:1 majority that consequential loss satisfies the ‘tort gateway’ in Practice Direction (“ PD ”) 6B, para. This post is written by Joshua Folkard, Barrister at Twenty Essex. Background. PD 6B, para. PD 6B, para.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the cause of action in the aftermath of the 2011 Bonga offshore oil spill accrued at the moment when the oil reached the shore. The jurisdiction and applicable law in the specific case of Bonga spill litigation have been closely followed inter alia by Geert van Calster here.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 1, 2025

On 20-21 March 2025, a conference on Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws was convened at St Hildas College, Oxford. This led him to discuss autonomous characterisation and functional comparative law approaches as the third direction through the work of Scipione Gemma and the changed views of Franz Kahn.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. § 55-8-136, which is a Class C misdemeanor, the statute of limitations for plaintiff’s action was extended to two years pursuant to Tenn. 28, 2021), plaintiff was injured in a car accident with defendant in September 2017. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(2). In Younger v. Okbahhanes , No. E2020-00429-COA-R10-CV (Tenn.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a landmark judicial policy issued by China’s Supreme People’s Court, the 2021 Conference Summary provides a detailed guideline for Chinese courts to review foreign judgment-related applications. EB-5 Visa fraud judgments, but rejected the punitive damages awarded therein, echoing the same rule laid down in the 2021 Conference Summary.

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 7, 2022

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia handed Amazon another loss in May 2021. The post A Case Over the Sale of Counterfeits on Amazon May Have Implications for Fashion appeared first on The Fashion Law. A “Straightforward” Case of Counterfeits. The case is Maglula, Ltd. Amazon.com, Inc. ,

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Patently O

MARCH 25, 2021

Montana 8th Judicial District ( Supreme Court 2021 ). Constitution serves as the foundational basis for the large number of precedential cases, the text is quite short: “nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Dennis Crouch. Ford Motor Co.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

S. _ (2021), the U.S. Supreme made it more difficult for plaintiffs to prove standing when bringing a credit-reporting class action lawsuit. The FCRA also creates a cause of action for consumers to sue and recover damages for certain violations. But under Article III, an injury in law is not an injury in fact.

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LawSites

JANUARY 4, 2023

As I reported here in November , the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has sued Xcential for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and other causes of action. [Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mark Stodder , President of Xcential Legislative Technologies. First, the context.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

Julia H örnle, Professor of Internet Law, CCLS, Queen Mary University of London [1]. By contrast, courts in California and Canada have found a contractual jurisdiction and applicable law clause invalid as a matter of public policy in order to allow a class action privacy claim to proceed against Facebook. [6]

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Fordham Law News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The NCAA did not allow any student athletes to profit off of their NIL until July 1, 2021. [3] The NCAA did not allow any student athletes to profit off of their NIL until July 1, 2021. [3] The lawsuit filed by Prince and House has three causes of action. [6] 7, 2021), [link] see generally O’Bannon v.

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