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IPRs and the APA: Review of Director’s Discretion to Initiate IPRs

Patently O

Jordan is a second-year law student at the University of Missouri School of Law and a registered patent agent. Apple and other repeat players in patent infringement litigation often use the inter partes review process under 35 U.S.C. §§ 311–319 to challenge the validity of asserted patents. By Jordan Duenckel. 35 U.S.C. § Fintiv, Inc.

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U.S. Supreme Court Renders Personal Jurisdiction Decision

Conflict of Laws

It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction. Washington (1945).

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Cassirer on Remand: Considering the Laws of Other Interested States

Conflict of Laws

It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. After it was taken in Germany, the painting spent some time in California and Missouri and was subsequently sold to Baron Von Thyssen-Bornemisza by a Gallery in New York. This post is by Carlos Manuel Vázquez , a professor of law at Georgetown Law School.

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Tony Buzbee Still Has To Deal With Jay-Z’s Defamation Countersuit

Above The Law

. … Judge Epstein’s tentative ruling would strike the extortion claim under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, which blocks frivolous lawsuits that seek to limit free speech. The judge said Buzbee’s demand letter is clearly protected litigation activity. “It is a settlement with a non-disclosure element.”

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A quest to reclaim a Pissarro masterpiece hinges on the Erie doctrine

SCOTUSBlog

Her heirs have been litigating for more than 15 years over rights to the painting, an Impressionist masterpiece once thought to be lost. It eventually travelled to New York and then to Saint Louis, Missouri, where it remained until 1976. Unbeknownst to the Cassirer family or the German government, the Pissarro was not lost.

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Jurisdictional dispute appears to scramble the court’s usual ideological lines

SCOTUSBlog

a decision holding that an out-of-state corporation had agreed to jurisdiction in Missouri when, as required by state law, it appointed an agent to accept the legal papers that initiate a lawsuit. Some justices pushed back against Mallory’s efforts to rely on the history of consent laws and Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co. of Philadelphia v.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. However, the Missouri appellate court affirmed the ruling. __. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. The obvious issue beyond the alleged negligence of the Park is the plaintiffs’ own conduct. Toy Company, Inc. for economic damages.

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