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Federal Court Ruling Increases Trial Court Ability to View Documents on Motion to Dismiss

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A panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that covers the states of Florida, Georgia and Alabama issued a decision on July 12, 2024, that clarified what a trial court can rely on in deciding a motion to...more

WilmerHale

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Sanctions “will likely result” if a party “incorporate[s] by reference arguments into one brief from...

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - PROMPTU SYSTEMS CORPORATION v. COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC [OPINION] (2022-1093, 2/16/2024) (Moore, Prost, and Taranto) - Per Curiam. The Court sua sponte issued...more

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Can A Nonsignatory Can Another Nonsignatory To Arbitrate?

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Disputes over whether arbitration may be compelled generally fall into four categories.  First, a signatory to an arbitration agreement may seek to compel another signatory to arbitrate.  Second, a signatory may seek to...more

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Incorporated References Can Be Used in an Anticipation Rejection

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A claim is said to be anticipated when a single prior art reference discloses, either expressly or inherently, each and every limitation of the claim. But what happens when a prior art reference discloses some aspects of the...more

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Arbutus Biopharma Corp. v. ModernaTx, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2023)

"This application claims priority to [properly identified earlier-filed application, the disclosure of which is expressly incorporated herein in its entirety" is a phrase commonly found in patents and patent applications as...more

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Pharmacyclics LLC v. Alvogen, Inc.

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Case Name: Pharmacyclics LLC v. Alvogen, Inc., No. 2021-2270, 2022 WL 16943006 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 15, 2022) (Circuit Judges Chen, Bryson, and Hughes presiding; Opinion by Bryson, J.) (Appeal from D. Del., Connolly, J.)...more

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Claim Terms Are Not Necessarily Interpreted by Patents Incorporated by Reference

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Finjan LLC v. ESET, LLC, Appeal No. 2021-2093 (Fed. Cir. 2022). The Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s summary judgment that interpreted the claims based on a definition in a separate patent that was incorporated...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Defining “Downloadable”: Federal Circuit Minimizes Impact of “Incorporation by Reference”

It is often questioned how someone’s career path, which began with asserting and defending patents in litigation, transforms to a career focused on cybersecurity and data privacy, as mine has in the last two decades of...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Who Decides if a Dispute Is Subject to Arbitration?

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The Florida Supreme Court on March 31, 2022, found that the incorporation by reference of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) arbitration rules in Airbnb's Terms of Service constitutes clear and unmistakable evidence...more

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Five Clauses to Watch Out for In Your Construction Subcontract

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Construction is booming in Arizona. There continues to be plenty of work for subcontractors as many general contractors do not self-perform the work. Your company submits a bid for a project and your bid wins! Time to get to...more

Nossaman LLP

NEPA Rules Rewrite: Content of NEPA Documents Under New CEQ Rules

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This is the fourth in a series of eAlerts on revisions to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations published in the Federal Register on July 16, 2020 (Final Regulations) by the Council on Environmental Quality...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

International Construction: On-Demand Bonds & Guarantees - First Judicial Guidance on URDG 758

In Leonardo S.p.A v. Doha Bank Assurance Company LLC1 the Appellate Division of the Qatar Financial Centre in a Judgement handed down by Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Justice Chelva Rajah SC and Justice Ali Malek QC stressed the...more

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Is the “Clear and Unmistakable” Hurdle for Delegation of Arbitrability Issues to an Arbitrator Uniform or Variable?

The United States Supreme Court established that questions of arbitrability are presumptively for a court unless the parties clearly and unmistakability manifest their intention (i.e, agreement) that such issues should be...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Adopts Securities Offering Reforms for Business Development Companies and Registered Closed-End Investment Companies

On April 8, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt a series of rule and form amendments that are intended to modernize the registration, communication and offering processes for business development...more

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New SEC C&DIs Clarify Aspects of Omitting Discussion of Third Year of Financials from the MD&A

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On January 24, 2020, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance released three new compliance and disclosure interpretations (“C&DIs”)  related to revised Instruction 1 to Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K (“Instruction 1”),...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on Rule Changes for Position Limits and Brexit Transitions

SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues C&DIs on Omission of Third Year From MD&A - As previously discussed in the April 12, 2019 edition of Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, the Securities and...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Newly Issued C&DIs Serve as a Reminder of Changes to MD&A Disclosure

Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) Division of Corporation Finance issued three new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) relating to disclosure of management's discussion and analysis...more

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Availability and Benefits of Shelf Offerings for Public Issuers

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Public issuers may benefit from the use of shelf offerings as an efficient, cost-effective alternative to Form S-1 in order to register shares as part of a primary offering, secondary offering, or as a benefit to its...more

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Documents Merely Referenced in a General Plan Resolution Need Not be Included in a Referendum Petition

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If a referendum petition includes the full text of the subject land use measure, documents referenced in such measure need not be attached to the petition unless they are attached to the measure or expressly incorporated into...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Preparing for the 2020 Reporting Season

With the 2020 reporting season just around the corner, there are several compliance “musts” to focus on, as well as items that can be addressed in the remainder of 2019 to make 2020 a little easier....more

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Incorporation by Reference of a Commercial Contract’s Arbitration Clause Can Bind a Non-Signatory Performance Bond Surety

Heads up, sureties! (And all other contracting parties.) Incorporation by reference of the terms of one agreement into another is a classical common law basis for binding the incorporating parties to the incorporated terms....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

SEC Proposes Amendments to Further Modernize Regulation S-K Disclosure Requirements

On August 8, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to the requirements related to the description of business, legal proceedings, and risk factors in SEC filings. These amendments are...more

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SEC Proposes Updates to Disclosure Rules under Regulation S-K

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On August 8, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed sweeping changes to the disclosures regarding the description of business, legal proceedings and risk factors that reporting companies are required to provide...more

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Issue Eighteen: PTAB Trial Tracker

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The availability of post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has changed the face of patent litigation. This monthly digest is designed to keep you up-to-date by highlighting interesting PTAB,...more

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Investment Management Update - June 2019

In the inaugural issue of Investment Management Update, we summarize regulatory, litigation and industry developments from February 2019 to May 2019 impacting the investment management sector....more

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