The recoverability of foreign lawyers' fees is an issue which has frequently been considered by the British Virgin Islands Courts in recent years. This has resulted in a significant body of case law on the topic.

Right on the heels of the SEC's action against Cheesecake Factory for misleading public statements regarding its financial performance comes this settled action against General Electric Company—

Raytheon appealed a final inter partes review decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board finding claims 3 and 16 of US 9,695,751 unpatentable as being obvious in view of the Knip reference.

The thunderbolt that struck Washington, D.C. — literally and figuratively — early on the morning of March 22, 2010 not only changed the fortune of the health care reform legislation but also put back in play many of President Obama's other key legislative initiatives, including the energy and climate change proposal.

In 1979, Dr. Robert Butler and his research team filed a Canadian patent application for the oil recovery technology known as Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage.

Corporate in-house counsel are challenged to do more with less in this highly regulated post-Enron, post-9/11 period.

On August 6, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the first 8 selections for the 2nd round of the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership ("GRIP")...

The Supreme Court’s decision in Nagaraj V. Mylandla v. PI Opportunities Fund-I[1], (“Nagaraj V. Mylandla”), is likely to assume significance well beyond the immediate dispute between the parties.

The US International Trade Commission has been giving more weight to public interest factors in recent times, as Carl Charneski explains.

Federal Circuit Patent Updates - May 2014

Canada’s Competition Bureau has recently formalised the approach it will take to remedies in international mergers. In its Information Bulletin on Merger Remedies in Canada, the bureau affirmed its desire to explore coordinated solutions with agencies in other jurisdictions.

In patent practice, there is a type of claims that often trouble applicants/patentees/inventors and patent attorneys alike — the method claims.

Sixteen of the eighteen shareholder proxy access proposals involved in the February 12th no-action letters were submitted by John Chevedden.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published a paper which considers the use of the failing firm defence in mergers, and whether the elements required to prove that a firm is a failing firm should be made more lenient during an economic downturn.

On May 25, 2011—with two Commissioners dissenting—the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") released final rules implementing the new whistleblower program created by The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank Act"), which was enacted on July 21, 2010.

On May 25, 2011—with two Commissioners dissenting—the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") released final rules implementing the new whistleblower program created by The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank Act"), which was enacted on July 21, 2010.

In this article, Nick Dunne and Colette Wilkins QC, Partners, and Andrew Gibson, Senior Counsel, at the law firm Walkers, based in the Cayman Islands, set out recent developments in Cayman Islands law...