While we often write about section 75-1.1 of North Carolina's General Statutes on this blog, today's post examines another statute contained in Chapter 75: the Abusive Patent Assertions Act.

Federal Circuit Finds Infringement Could Not Be Decided as a Matter of Law.

The Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo successfully defended itself against the early market entry of generic competitive products for its successful pharmaceutical product Sevikar®.

In Gallardo v. Dudek, Sec. of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, No. 4:16cv116-MW/CAS, 2017 WL 1405166 (N.D Fla. April 18, 2017), the federal district court, by order on...

In 1995, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice first issued the Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property.

This month we highlight two Federal Circuit obviousness-type double patenting decisions.

If you are an in-house lawyer for a trade or professional association, you probably spend a good amount of your time counseling the association and its members on the importance of complying with government regulations, industry-specific laws, and laws of general applicability, such as the antitrust laws.

On March 31, 2005, the Antitrust Modernization Commission ("Commission"), as part of its statutory mandate to examine whether the U.S. antitrust laws need to be modernized, released a projected timetable for the remaining two years of its work, which will culminate in the issuance of a report to Congress and the President in April 2007.

Das japanische Pharmaunternehmen Daiichi Sankyo hat sich erfolgreich gegen den frühzeitigen Markteintritt generischer Wettbewerbsprodukte zu seinem erfolgreichen Arzneimittel Sevikar® gewehrt.

The late Justice Antonin Scalia was not the biggest fan of antitrust law. As he famously quipped during his Senate confirmation hearing: "In law school, I never understood [antitrust law].

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division has articulated a clear position on the relationship between antitrust law and intellectual property rights through recent statements of interest and policy speeches. These pronouncements address critical questions about patent enforcement, standard-essential patents, and the availability of injunctive relief in patent litigation. The DOJ's consistent messaging provides important guidance for navigating the intersection of competition policy and innovation i

As we discussed in our May 2017 article, the current head of the DOJ's Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim...

For many years, college athletes fought for the right to license their name, image, and likeness (NIL) while keeping their amateur status and participating in college athletics.

The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division continues to ramp up its private litigation amicus program after vowing to be more involved ...

Enquanto entidades de relações institucionais e governamentais comemoravam a inclusão de sua atividade no Cadastro Brasileiro de Ocupações e debatiam a regulamentação dolobby no Brasil...

The Supreme Court issued two unanimous decisions that relax the standard for awarding attorney’s fees against plaintiffs who bring meritless patent suits.

Prior to the recent midterm elections, we wrote about five Senate Republicans who issued a warning letter[1] to major U.S. law firms regarding the potential antitrust implications of Environmental...

On January 13, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") issued new editions of their Antitrust Guidelines for Licensing of Intellectual Property ("IP Guidelines") and Antitrust Guidelines for International Enforcement and Cooperation ("International Guidelines").

The next day, Motorola brought an action in the Western District of Wisconsin seeking to enjoin Microsoft from using its H.264 patents.