This article looks to a change in joinder rules enacted under the America Invents Act to explain a recent flurry in patent infringement lawsuit filings. The article details what exactly is changing and why these changes could be the cause of a...
This article reviews several arguments from a high-profile lawsuit in which legacy TV networks are suing Dish Networks over equipment and software which allows Dish subscribers to watch TV shows commercial-free (albeit with a time-shift). As...
This article explains the doctrine of standing and looks to a recent copyright case involving a Twitter user's tweets to illustrate how the question of standing can interact with a number of other legal concepts to implicate internet privacy...
This article notes a decision in the Oracle v. Google copyright infringement litigation which was nominally in favor of Oracle but in reality did not move the needle all that much. The article points to the mixed nature of the decision and...
Patent litigation lawsuits and patent "trolls" have been hot news topics in legal and entrepreneurial circles lately. This raises the question--what are the costs associated with all this litigation around innovation? This article...
Samsung and Apple, like many other pairs of technology companies, have been engaged in a protracted intellectual property dispute involving the companies' patent portfolios. This article analyzes Samsung's latest move in this ongoing drama, as...
This article reviews the registration statement which Facebook recently filed with the SEC and discovers that Facebook is publicly indicating that it intends on bolstering its patent litigation capabilities. Tying into an earlier article about...
This article chronicles yet another round of patent litigation between tech titans. The two technology giants in question are Facebook and Yahoo; as the article relates, Yahoo is suing Facebook for infringement of a number of its patents, and...
The business judgment rule is a vital feature of the corporate law of Delaware (and other states). This article provides an overview of the business judgment rule, with an explanation of what it is, how shareholder plaintiffs in lawsuits...
This article takes a look at a patent infringement claim regarding certain alleged-patent-infringing Blu-ray players. The patent which is the subject of the infringement allows users to access "fun facts" about movies, scenes, or other features...