In Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court and Ford Motor Co. v. Bandemer, issued Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court rejected Ford Motor Company’s challenge to two state courts’ assertion of specific...more
On June 19, the US Supreme Court decided Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, a case that may make efforts to litigate national product liability and consumer protection suits against non-US companies...more
On May 30, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc., which changed the settled law of "international patent exhaustion"—whether a US patent infringement suit may be brought in...more
6/5/2017
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Imports ,
Impression Products v Lexmark International ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
IP License ,
Patent Exhaustion ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Resales Agreements ,
SCOTUS ,
Single-Use/No Resale Restriction ,
Stream of Commerce
The US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) codifies the doctrine of sovereign immunity and generally prohibits lawsuits in US courts against non-US sovereigns. But the FSIA has an exception where, among other things, a...more
Non-U.S. banks with branches in New York and elsewhere in the United States find themselves sued or otherwise exposed to judicial orders in American courts with regularity. The cases reflect the full range of U.S. legal...more
7/22/2015
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Antitrust Litigation ,
Appeals ,
Asset Freeze ,
Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Compliance ,
Counterfeiting ,
Cuba ,
DaimlerChrysler v Bauman ,
Due Process ,
Fifth Amendment ,
Financial Institutions ,
Foreign Banks ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Gucci ,
Libor ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Non-US Entities ,
NYDFS ,
People's Bank of China ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Racketeering ,
RICO ,
SCOTUS ,
Trademark Infringement
On June 22, 2015, in a 6-3 decision in Kimble et al. v. Marvel Enterprises, LLC, 576 U.S. __ (2015), the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed its holding in Brulotte v. Thys, 379 U.S. 29 (1964), that it is per se patent...more