All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Legal Issues

The ITC stay is not, nor should be, as important as the perceived 'strategic shift' in some QUALCOMM clients' boardrooms. These carriers do not like the protracted litigation war between BROADCOM and QUALCOMM any better than its legal maneuvers and their possible outcomes. Even though the stay...

Legal professional privilege in the European Union protects communications with outside lawyers but not with in-house counsel. A new decision by the European Court of First Instance alters and elaborates these rules in ways important to any company doing business in Europe.

WR Grace's Lost criminal appeal may affect timing of emergence from bankruptcy. Lost criminal appeal increases WR Grace's potential exposure.

The ADAMS Co. may expect similar litigation in RE: "Mucinex SE 600mg" extended-release tablets as she previously experienced with the MUTUAL Co.  MUTUAL simply wanted to get into the same market with the same product. Then, both parties have agreed to dismiss all patent infringement claims...

IGT just filed for summary judgment in one of its patent disputes involving rival BYI.  The motion is clever, but I suspect that it will fail, because IGT's motion requires the court to skip several analytical steps that the court should not be willing to skip.

The analyst community has paid significant attention to the fact that the Santa Ana court is now reopening the BRCM patent case to rethink the question of whether QCOM's infringement was willful.  The interest is misplaced.  The original willfulness determination was important to understand...

One of the concerns facing Rambus as it prepares for trial this January is the worry that the court will simply defer to the FTC's factual conclusions about Rambus' behavior at JEDEC and the implications thereof.  This week, that risk was diminished, as the court not only declined to defer, but...

U.S. efforts to push China to change its IP laws is moving into a new phase: the increasing use of WTO dispute settlement processes. This is good news for overall U.S.-PRC trade relations, since it legalizes and somewhat depoliticizes what are otherwise very hotly political disputes on both sides. ...

On the one hand, the strike highlights the desperation of the UAW, but on the other it dramatizes the need to replace private employer based health insurance with public healthcare. This is needed to make U.S. companies more competitive with their counterparts abroad.

The at-risk product launch by [NasdaqGS:TEVA] Teva of generic equivalents to [NYSE:PFE] Pfizer's Neurontin® (gabapentin) might - and the emphasis is clearly on might - yet prove to be an expensive mistake by Teva. The recent Opinion by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...