Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5] Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

The states sought Supreme Court review , but it was denied. Another challenge brought in Arkansas failed, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit affirmed that ruling. And the 6th Circuit concluded that the annual fees did not represent impermissible commandeering. Relisted after the Jan. 10 conference.)

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