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Nevada Supreme Court upholds state ban on ghost guns, reversing lower-court decision

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The Nevada Supreme Court upheld a 2021 state ban on ghost guns Thursday, overturning a lower-court decision that declared the law unconstitutional for being vague. Stiglich authored the opinion of the court. In 2021, the Nevada legislature passed AB 286. Justice Lidia S.

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Would I FIE to You? FDA’s First Interchangeable Exclusivity Determination Results in Expiration

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In other words, FDA needed to determine whether the initial biosimilar litigation—pre-interchangeable supplemental approval—counts towards the FIE expiration date calculation. Notably, the purpose of the statute seemed to govern much of FDA’s interpretation.

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Out now: Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (ZVglRWiss) 120 (2021) No. 4

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courts for use in foreign proceedings. Referring to the statute’s twin goals to provide “efficient assistance to participants in international litigation and encourag[e] foreign countries by example to provide similar assistance to our courts”, U.S. The first issue U.S.

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Patent Law at the Supreme Court February 2022

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20-891 (CVSG requested May 3, 2021); Res Judicata and the Patent-Specific Kessler Doctrine : PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. 20-1394 (CVSG requested October 4, 2021); Undermining Jury Decisions : Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. 21-438 (CVSG requested October 4, 2021); and. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. , Patreon, Inc.,

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Where’s Waldo: Global Discovery and Finding a Corporation

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Courts to obtain discovery in order to facilitate foreign litigation; with the pending global litigation between Eli Lilly and Novartis serving as our key example. The standard today is that prior to trial the litigating parties will share “mutual knowledge of all relevant facts.” ” Hickman v.

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More Venue and Corporate Games: This time with ANDA filing

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The 2017 Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland gave renewed teeth to the venue statute governing litigation. Although the notice letter is a critical aspect of the Hatch-Waxman process, the Federal Circuit found that the letter was not an “act of infringement” as required by the venue statute.

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Cancelling a Patent Claim

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The first question — if the patentee is involved in concurrent district court infringement litigation, at what step is the patent no longer enforceable? The affirmed PTAB decision found the claim invalid with a preponderance of the evidence. 1970, 1993 (2021) (Gorsuch, J., See, for instance, Moffitt v. 961 (1877).

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