All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Legal Issues

Patent holders may not be able to sue in one U.S. court for infringing both U.S. and foreign patents.  This could make enforcement of patents significantly more expensive and complex.

From among 5 patents listed in the FDA Orange Book, Novartis sued Teva for patent infringement of only 1 patent.  Teva filed a corresponding declaratory judgement action against Novartis seeking adjudication of the remaining 4 patents.  In its recent ruling, the Federal Circuit agrees...

The Supreme Court has chosen to grant review on several antitrust cases in the last couple of years and has generally expressed skepticism at per se approaches in favor of a more nuanced, supposedly fact-based approach.  Some of these cases involved quite narrow or specific factual circumstances,...

After two years of waiting, SanDisk (SNDK) just won its appeal on the question of whether the firm is allowed to preemptively sue STMicro over 14 of that firm's patents. The win opens an intriguing possibility: moving the now-pending jury trial from patent-happy Texas to the more reasonable confines...

Neither IGT nor BYI issued a press release, but last Thursday the Nevada court issued an important ruling on each firm's several motions for summary judgment. The outcome favored BYI and was for me a bit of a surprise.  

What will be the government's responsibility for asbestos cleanup, especially so close to its home?Will this asbestos exposure change positions on the previously proposed Asbestos legislation?This revelation could open up a floodgate of Litigation. 

Stifle free speech and you remove debate, which the Bush Court would favor.  America's founders placed at the democratic core free speech and that one is responsible for one's actions.Government has no business closing free speech unless it is against the interests of the people et al.  No...

The FTC just announced its decision on Rambus' several requests for clarifications and adjustments to the pending order on SDRAM and DDR1. The new decision favors Rambus on several levels: it confirms that the low regulated rates only apply forward-looking, and it establishes an escrow to protect Rambus...

Friday night came the announcement I had predicted just an hour earlier: a much broader settlement of litigation between Broadcom and Qualcomm. Here, I run through the cases that remain, and identify the ones that now should take center stage.

Once and for all this court has the opportunity to stop similar free speech arguments. Will the Supreme Court make a ruling that has so much room for interpretation that it guides less than its possible intentions?This ruling could send a loud echo through our school system on what the court will and...