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Bankruptcy Code section 365(n) permits a licensee to continue to use intellectual property even if the debtor rejects the license agreement.

Although the amount of collaborative research and development (R&D) has been growing in recent decades, collaborative R&D raises many thorny patent issues regarding ownership and inventorship. Patent litigation and licensing, for example, are based on fundamental, emotional issues of patent ownership and inventorship that easily can arise during collaborative R&D.

Broadcasters providing or contemplating ATSC 3.0 services are likely well aware of how complex the process of finding suitable "host" stations can be. Not only does a Next Gen broadcaster...

A New York district court recently held that a retroactive license agreement allowed a licensee to grant a retroactive sublicense to corporate subsidiaries.

In order for ASCAP and BMI to effectively compete with SESAC and to most efficiently service their members, their licensees and the general public, the Consent Decrees need modification.

As the 95 th Tour de France approaches, many Americans may choose to ignore the year’s premier cycling event in the wake of Lance Armstrong trading in his bike for running shoes and Floyd Landis trading in his yellow jersey for a twoyear ban for doping.

Sometimes a company receives notices of audits from many publishers or trade associations at the same time.

Wellogix and SAP entered into a license agreement to integrate the two companies' purchase-to-pay software functionalities for the oil and gas industry.

On January 9, 2007, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a patent licensee may challenge the validity of a licensed patent while continuing to pay royalties on the licensed patent. MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc., No. 05-608.

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Last week, the Third Circuit held that in a consensus-oriented private standard setting environment, a patent holder’s intentionally false promise to license essential proprietary technology on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms, coupled with the standard setting organization’s reliance on that promise when including the technology in the standard, and the patent holder’s subsequent breach of that promise, is anticompetitive conduct actionable under the Sherman Act.

Around Christmas 2024, the Ohio Division of Financial Institutions ("DFI") left a lump of coal in marketplace consumer lenders' proverbial stockings by issuing guidance that asserted a license...

It's been 100 years since the time of jazz clubs, speakeasies and flappers. A time when new inventions such as radios, movies, ...

Each applicant for a license with the Registrar of Contractors (ROC) must provide identifying information to the ROC relevant to the agency's exercise of discretion to grant the license.

The First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel recently issued a decision recognizing the rights of trademark licensees when the trademark's owner files for bankruptcy.