On March 22, 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in the matter of Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., et al. v. Siracusano, et al., No. 09-1156.

The Federal Circuit today issued its awaited "en banc" opinion "in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Co"., Appeal No. 2008-1511, defining the substantive standards for the inequitable conduct defense.

The District of New Jersey has recently held that, under 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(2), a court may exercise jurisdiction in a Hatch-Waxman Act case over claim of patent infringement where the Abbreviated New Drug Application filer did not make a Paragraph IV certification for that patent.

In a case followed closely by the patent bar, the Supreme Court today unanimously affirmed the clear and convincing evidence standard of proof for patent invalidity determinations. Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. P’ship, No. 10-290 (S. Ct. June 9, 2011) ("Slip op.").

Recently a purported shareholder of certain special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) initiated derivative lawsuits asserting that the SPACs are investment companies...

On March 17, 2011, the District of New Jersey (Judge Chesler) issued an important decision regarding the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting ("OTDP"), holding that when a patent is terminally disclaimed to the expiration date of an earlier-expiring patent and the earlier patent lapses due to failure to pay maintenance fees, the terminal disclaimer may still be effective to obviate OTDP.

Greece’s recent second bailout of €130bn and related debt cut has successfully resulted in the country averting a disorderly default and exit from the eurozone, for now at least.

A new feed-in tariff regime (the "FIT Regime") for renewable energy power plants (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) came into effect in Japan on July 1, 2012 under the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Procurement of Renewable Electric Energy by Operators of Electric Utilities (the "Act").

On March 8, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or "JOBS Act."

On March 21, 2012, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, holding that a compliance order issued under the Clean Water Act.

On 7 March 2011, the Court of Appeal delivered judgment on an appeal and a cross-appeal from a decision of the Chancellor of the High Court in the case of BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd v Eurosail UK 2007-3BL PLC & Ors [2010] EWHC 2005.

On March 31, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") released the highly anticipated proposed rule under the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (commonly referred to as the "Healthcare Reform Law") regarding the formation and operation of accountable care organizations ("ACOs").

Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, a comprehensive patent reform bill containing significant substantive, procedural, and technical changes impacting U.S. patent law.

In a case of first impression, the Second Circuit in Gibbons v. Malone, No. 11–3620–cv, 2013 WL 57844 (2d Cir. Jan. 7, 2013) declined to apply Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, more commonly known as the "short-swing profit rule," to a corporate insider transaction involving shares of two different classes of stock of the same issuer.

The State of California has recently enacted a Voluntary Compliance Initiative 2 ("VCI 2") for taxpayers who underreported their California income tax liabilities, through the use of so-called "abusive tax avoidance" transactions or offshore financial arrangements, to amend their tax returns for 2010 and earlier.

The Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") recently provided guidance to real estate investment trusts.

If your company, in 2011, engaged in any transaction that affected the basis of all holders of a particular class of stock, including stock-splits, mergers, reorganizations, spin-offs, split-offs, stock redemptions, and distributions in excess of corporate earnings and profits, then your company has until January 17, 2012 to file a new tax form with the Internal Revenue Service.

Recently a purported shareholder of certain special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) initiated derivative lawsuits asserting that the SPACs are investment companies under the Investment Company...