Welcome back to Commercial Roundup–the best source for the latest appellate decisions on issues that matter in commercial litigation. In this issue, you’ll find four Supreme Court rulings on overseas torts, patent enablement, the reach of the False Claims Act,
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Commercial Roundup – May 17, 2023
- Adding option to patent on meat-cooking method didn’t qualify for co-inventor status.
- FAA exempts holders of right to intrastate delivery of goods from out of state.
- Patent owner defeats appeal from order that denied fee award.
- Data
Commercial Roundup – May 3, 2023
The last week brought losses for antitrust enforcers (“Apple’s concerns over app security” and “Laches and Trinko kill”), for a man who sued to get “co-inventor” status (“Adding option to patent”), for distributors invoking franchise-law protections (“State franchise statute didn’t
Commercial Roundup – April 27, 2023
Commercial Roundup offers a double feature this week–two weeks in one.
We lead off with a memory (“The biggest surprise?”), proceed through a slew of IP rulings, pause on my colleagues’ big win against Fox News (“All it took”), note
Commercial Roundup – April 12, 2023
Welcome to this week’s Commercial Roundup—in which you’ll find links to the most significant rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court and the 13 Courts of Appeals plus the highest courts in Delaware, New York, and Texas. You’ll also see other
Commercial Roundup – April 5, 2023
This week’s Commercial Roundup follows three days of all antitrust, all the time at the ABA Antitrust Law Section’s annual Spring Meeting in our nation’s capital. More than 3,700 government enforcers, private lawyers, judges, economists, econometricians, academics, students, and others
Antitrust Enforcers Must Do More with Less
Enforcers Roundtable
Like 3,700 or so other folks, I spent a few days last week at a world-class nerdfest—the Spring Meeting of the Antitrust Law Section. You can see my notes from a couple of the half-dozen sessions I attended
Notes on “Trying a Section 2 Case: Best Practices”
Today the ABA Antitrust Law Section’s annual Spring Meeting comes to a close. This post reviews a panel discussion on the particular challenges of trying a monopolization or attempt to monopolize case under Sherman Act Section 2.
Notes on “All Bark, No Bite? Antitrust Under Biden.”
This week the ABA Antitrust Law Section’ holds its Spring Meeting. The program offers dozens of sessions, each of which features debate by a panel of experts from government, academia, or private firms on a topic of current interest.
This
Commercial Roundup – March 29, 2023
Welcome to the spring break edition of Commercial Roundup. This week’s highlights include a fantastic round-robin interview of six women lawyers who’ve made their way to the top of antitrust-world and the end of a saga about a non-lawyer who