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U.S. Supreme Court to Review Burden of Proof to Apply in Patent Licensee Challenges

by Ropes & Gray LLP on 5/24/2013

In 2007, the United States Supreme Court ruled that patent licensees could challenge their obligation to pay patent license royalties under a license agreement without first breaching the license agreement by halting royalty...more

Game Developer’s Conduct Justified Granting Publisher a Permanent Royalty-Free License

by Sean Kane | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/26/2013

On April 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued an order upholding an arbitration award against a video game developer and granting a publisher a perpetual license in the developer’s game due to the...more

Licenses For Public Performance Of Music At "Live Events" In Canada

by Bob Tarantino | Heenan Blaikie LLP on 3/25/2013

SOCAN (the Canadian public performance rights collective) recently announced that in 2012 they paid over $20 million in royalties from "concerts and live entertainment". That figure represented a 14% increase year-over-year....more

BayhDol25 Files Amicus Brief in Bowman v. Monsanto

by Kevin E. Noonan | McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 1/31/2013

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina A great many amicus briefs have been filed in support of affirmance of the Federal Circuit's decision in Bowman...more

The Patent-Antitrust Interface: Are There Any No-No's Today?

by William Coston | Venable LLP on 1/31/2013

Antitrust law and patent law are legal tectonic plates – always in motion, occasionally converging, occasionally diverging, and occasionally moving in parallel relation. As patent suits have recently multiplied, the...more

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U.S. Supreme Court to Review Burden of Proof to Apply in Patent Licensee Challenges

Game Developer’s Conduct Justified Granting Publisher a Permanent Royalty-Free License

Licenses For Public Performance Of Music At "Live Events" In Canada

BayhDol25 Files Amicus Brief in Bowman v. Monsanto

The Patent-Antitrust Interface: Are There Any No-No's Today?

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