Determining Patent Infringement An act of patent infringement occurs when someone practices each and every element of your patent claim. Patent claims are the numbered paragraphs at the end of your patent. To determine if there is infringement, you’ll want to compare each segment of each claim to the device you think is infringing. Below […]
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On March 15, 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an injunction order from the lower court, which stops the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline. This is another hold up in the $8 billion dollar project, which TransCanada has been trying to get going for over a decade now.
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On February 26, 2019, the Federal Circuit held that the filing of a lawsuit by a University against a private company can waive that
University’s sovereign immunity defense.
Whether you like him or not, Justice Kananaugh is here to stay.On January 9, 2019, Kavanaugh wrote his first opinion on the bench. The case was Hreny Schein Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc., Case No. 17-1272 (Appeal from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals).
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On November 27, 2018, the US Supreme Court weighed in on the issue of whether the label from the US Fish and Wildlife Service of an area as a “critical habitat” for an endangered species requires the subject species to actual have a “habitat” in the designated area.
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On November 6, 2018, in the first decision of this term, the US Supreme Court held the Age Discrimination Act (“ADEA”) applies to all public employers, even if they have less than 20 employees…
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