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Recently, in Moore v. Elec. Boat Corp., No. 21-1566, 2022 WL 278535 (1st Cir. Jan. 31, 2022), a government contractor-defendant successfully appealed remand based on 28 U.S.C.

A U.S. court has ruled that a sovereign wealth fund is subject to U.S. securities fraud claims when U.S. investors rely on misrepresentations by the fund.

Under Texas law, school districts are generally immune from suit and liability unless the legislature expressly waives governmental immunity.

The Supreme Court on October 27, 2006 agreed to review a case that may greatly extend the extraterritorial reach of U.S. patent law. The dispute between AT&T and Microsoft centers on products made outside the U.S. in part with technology patented in the U.S.

On June 14 the Federal Circuit further clarified that sovereign immunity cannot be used to shield a patent from having its validity challenged in inter partes review proceedings at the Patent Trial

The Federal Circuit recently reaffirmed the unique – most would say antiquated – rule that possession of a patent raises a rebuttable presumption of market power in a tying case under Sherman Act § 1. Independent Ink, Inc. v. Illinois Tool Works, Inc., No. 04-1196, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 1205 (Fed. Cir. 1/25/2005)

In a precedential decision, issued June 14, 2019, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's ruling against the University of Minnesota, declining to dismiss petitions for inter partes review.

The appellants filed this patent infringement suit in the Western District of Texas. The district court found improper venue, and transferred the case to Delaware.

In late March, the Federal Circuit issued an order staying the PTAB proceedings concerning numerous related IPRs of patents issued to Allergan, Inc. ("Allergan") ...

Foreign sovereigns have long assumed that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides them with substantial protection against litigants in U.S. courts.

November is Native American Heritage Month. Although the calendar page has turned, it is perhaps, even more important to remember its significance.

The U.S. Supreme Court held that all members of a certified class must demonstrate that they suffered a concrete harm—such as physical injury or monetary loss—to have Article III standing to recover damages in federal court.

Previously I explained that the 7th amendment argument in Oil States and the 11th amendment argument for sovereign immunity from the PTAB are both tied to the same basic, threshold premise ...

This morning we attended the Supreme Court's oral arguments in Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski. The issue presented in Coinbase is a procedural one, but of tremendous practical importance...

Last Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rendered an opinion in Vann v. Dept. of Interior which threatens to eviscerate a central principal of Indian law – that Indian tribes enjoy sovereign immunity from suit – with a holding that, under the Ex parte Young doctrine, a plaintiff may proceed against Cherokee tribal officials without the consent of the Cherokee Nation.

Now that you've had a three-month dose of security program substance, it's time to take a look at how the Bureau of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP or, here, Customs) plans to implement the CT-PAT program, the Container Security Initiative, the 24-Hour Advance Vessel Manifest Rule, and related concepts. Briefly, the feds will use hi-tech data exchange and storage systems implemented by newly formed Customs sub-departments, and reconstitute interrelated functions performed by Department of

The war on terrorism is just that: a war in every sense but the most traditional. Foreign invaders are trying to besiege and conquer us, to take what's rightfully ours, to attack us right here in our homeland. We want to keep them out. To do so, we are designing and putting up barricades, technological fortifications to defend ourselves.

During the Transportation Research Board's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao announced the initiation of two long-awaited rulemakings related to the operation of small UAS: