Archive for January, 2013

THE THIRD CIRCUIT’S APPROACH TO THE IMPACT OF THE DISCLOSURE OF PRIVILEGED MATERIAL AS IT PERTAINS TO DISCOVERY REQUESTS PURSUANT TO LITIGATION IN A FOREIGN TRIBUNAL: IN RE APPLICATION OF CHEVRON CORPORATION, ET. AL. V. JOSEPH C. KOHN, ESQUIRE, ET. AL.

JAMES DORING In In re Chevron Corp., the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the disclosure of the outtakes of Crude, a documentary about the ongoing litigation between Chevron and Ecuador, did not waive the attorney-client privilege attached to related, but undisclosed, documents and therefore […]

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CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE AS PROPER STANDARD OF PROOF FOR A PATENT INVALIDITY DEFENSE UNDER § 282 OF THE PATENT ACT OF 1952: MICROSOFT CORP. V. I4I LTD. PARTN.

MEREDITH NORRIS In June 2011 the United States Supreme Court upheld over a century’s worth of case law concerning the presumption of patent validity, when it adopted the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s holding regarding the proper standard of proof for a patent invalidity defense under […]

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