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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently O

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Funko Settles Derivative Litigation in Delaware, California

Law 360

has agreed to resolve derivative claims in multiple stockholder suits in California federal court and Delaware's Court of Chancery by implementing corporate governance reforms and paying up to $2.15 Pop culture lifestyle brand Funko Inc. million to plaintiffs' attorneys, the company has announced.

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New York sues New Jersey over compact governing Port of New York and New Jersey

SCOTUSBlog

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. TitleMax of Delaware, Inc.

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Delaware’s Corporate Crack-Up: The “Great” Business Exodus and Its Legal Fallout

Fordham Law News

Delaware has long been the preferred state of incorporation for corporations due to its business friendly legal framework, its specialized Court of Chancery, and its well-developed and unified body of corporate law. 2] As a result, many believe that Delawares monopoly over corporate incorporation seems to be showing early signs of collapse.

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Be Careful Not to Unintentionally Bargain Away the Right to File IPRs

The IP Law Blog

When entering into contracts, parties commonly include forum selection clauses to govern future litigation between the parties. For clarity, this covenant not to sue includes, but is not limited to, patent infringement litigations, declaratory judgment actions, patent validity challenges before the U.S. emphasis added).

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Federal jurisdiction and the constitutionality of eviction moratoriums

SCOTUSBlog

After extensive litigation (including a two-week jury trial), the district court granted Hains Rule 50(a) motion for judgment as a matter of law, finding that the Palmquists failed to establish that their sons symptoms had been caused by the heavy metals. The justices will be discussing two of them for a second time. Relisted after the Apr.

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Law School Canons: You can’t always “have it your way!”

Patently O

is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California (in the Northern District of California). Factor 1 – the burden on the defendant: PerDiemCo argued that litigating anywhere other than the Eastern District of Texas would impose an undue burden. and litigating patents away from D.C. Trimble, Inc.