Episode 116 -- Alstom Executive Convicted of FCPA and Money Laundering Offenses
Potential for Vicarious Liability Under the Graves Amendment
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 122-with Matt Kelly on Alstom, Avon and Petrobras
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 118-the Alstom FCPA Enforcement Action
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 117-the Avon FCPA Enforcement Action
Cross-Border Update on Investing and Doing Business in the United States
The M&A Word of the Day® from the Book of Jargon® – Global Mergers & Acquisitions Is Carve-Out Transaction
The Tax Court issued its second opinion in Medtronic following a remand by the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Medtronic, Inc. v. Comm’r, 900 F.3d 610 (8th Cir. 2018)) of its earlier decision. In that...more
The Hatch-Waxman Act provides a cause of action for infringement based on the submission of an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) to FDA. 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(2). Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in TC Heartland LLC v....more
Welcome to Morrison & Foerster’s quarterly newsletter on dispute resolution. In this newsletter, we address recent developments in arbitrations, investigations, and commercial and intellectual property litigation that may...more
The Federal Circuit, in an opinion by Judge O’Malley, did not hold back in expressing its displeasure in being asked to resolve a claim construction dispute in AntennaSys, Inc., v. AQYR Technologies, Inc. and Windmill...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that a firm’s ongoing representation of the opposing parties’ indirect subsidiary and affiliate in three patent infringement appeals created a concurrent conflict of...more
Taiwanese Manufacturer of Smartphones Subject to Personal Jurisdiction in Texas in Patent Infringement Case Because of its Allegedly Purposeful Efforts to Serve the US Market, Even Though all US Distribution was Orchestrated...more
Dutch Parent Exercises Insufficient Control over US Subsidiary to be Deemed its "Alter Ego" - Britax Child Safety, Inc. v. Nuna International B.V., US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, July 26, 2018....more
In University of Massachusetts Medical School et al v. L’Oreal SA et al, 1-17-cv-00868 (DED 2018-11-13, Order) (Sherry R. Fallon), the magistrate judge recommended granting a foreign parent company defendant’s motion to...more
In another interesting development in our ongoing coverage of the application of the TC Heartland patent venue standard by lower courts, the District Court for the Western District of Texas recently determined that when a...more
In reviewing the scope of an arbitration agreement that was part of a supply agreement, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision, determining that the defendant’s breach of...more
The court declines to consider extrinsic evidence in the context of this motion to dismiss. However, the complaint is deficient in that the decision to lump two defendants together in addressing the direct infringement claim...more
This is an ANDA case relating to generic dalfampridine extended-release tablets. The court finds, following that the Daimler decision, that neither the parent nor subsidiary defendant are “at home” in Delaware for purposes of...more