Antitrust usually prohibits rival firms from striking agreements that forestall competition. Patent settlements provide an exception, however, because a patent on a significant …
Now, more than ever before, pharmacologists are contributing medical advances to confront ravaging disease. They are developing drugs to mitigate the effects of Alzheimer's, HIV …
The legal consequences of an action often depend on information that only the actor knows. This information is typically inferred from the observable'facts and circumstances" attending …
Medical innovation continues to skyrocket, giving us artificial hearts, medical imaging software, advanced prosthetics controllable with the mind, and pharmacological cures for a …
M Abramowicz, S Abramowicz - Geo. Wash. L. Rev., 2018 - HeinOnline
In settling a lawsuit, parties agree on their obligations to one another, but they need not separately address each issue, claim, or remedy that a trial court would have confronted …
The patent-antitrust paradox has generally defied resolution. Attempts to either" graft antitrust doctrines onto patent law" or vice versa have" spawned almost a century of …
B Gant - Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop., 2021 - HeinOnline
Under the flawed" probabilistic" theory of patents, first put forward by the economist Carl Shapiro in 2001 and expanded upon by Shapiro and Mark Lemley in an oft-cited 2005 …
In a typical securities fraud class action (SFCA) against a publcly traded company under SEC Rule 10b-5, the claim arisesfrom an alleged cover-up of bad news by company agents …
WE Kovacic, RC Marshall, MJ Meurer - NYU J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L., 2020 - HeinOnline
In the history of antitrust enforcement, patents have occupied center stage in a number of Supreme Court cases addressing horizontal price fixing and conspiracies to monopolize. 1 …