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The life sciences industry continues to evolve rapidly, driven by technological advancements, shifting economic conditions, and global market dynamics.

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As many parts of the country dig themselves out of the snow, January has also seen a flurry of activity in state legislatures as their 2024 sessions reconvene and new legislation is introduced.

In Mission, the debtor-licensor rejected a trademark license agreement and sought to terminate the licensee's right to use the debtor's trademark. This decision has important ramifications to parties to trademark licenses.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the district courts dismissal of ExcelStors complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, holding that ExcelStors breach of contract claim invoking the patent exhaustion doctrine, does not confer federal jurisdiction over the case.

This appeal challenges a determination of the Copyright Royalty Judges for the years 2000 to 2003, with respect to an allocation of royalties within the devotional programming category.

Patent owners that lack sufficient resources are often required to utilize the services of an outside litigation funding source to vindicate their patent rights.

Artificial intelligence's (AI) presence continues to grow in many industries and within various technologies as innovative organizations use it for competitive advantage.

Although it seems that every company either is, or is becoming, a technology company in some way, using outside counsel for software legal review can be a smart way to approach an ever evolving task.

The European Commission adopted a new package of rules for the assessment of technology transfer agreements under EU competition law.

In an 8 to 1 decision, the Court held that a patent licensee is not required to terminate its license agreement before filing an action declaring a patent invalid, unenforceable, or not infringed. This ruling enables patent licensees to challenge the validity of patents more easily and necessitates that patent holders negotiate new waiver provisions as part of their licensing agreements.

An Indiana federal court has ruled that the Indiana right of publicity statute, which has the longest post-mortem period of continuing the right of publicity, does not apply to personalities who died before 1994, the year the statute was enacted.

Allegations of conspiracy to restrain trade and exclusive dealing may read like textbook antitrust claims, but if the allegations are made by a plaintiff who is not an "efficient enforcer" of the antitrust laws, the complaint is vulnerable to a motion to dismiss.

Updating policies that had been on the books for more than two decades, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on Jan. 12, 2017, issued new Antitrust Guidelines...

On June 5, 2019, the Department of Justice announced its opening of a formal review of the antitrust consent decrees that have regulated music performance

On February 15, a Texas federal jury found that Ericsson did not breach its obligation to offer HTC licenses to its standard-essential patents (SEPs) on fair ...

On November 6, Michigan voters approved Proposal 1, legalizing the use of marihuana by individuals 21 years of age and older.