On December 3, 2024, a United States district court in the Eastern District of Texas preliminarily enjoined the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) in its entirety nationwide, and also specifically stayed...more
The US Supreme Court has held that companies can be forced, as a condition of doing business in a state, to agree to be sued in that state’s courts — even if the lawsuit has nothing to do with that state. In its June 27,...more
6/29/2023
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Statutory Interpretation
Late in the day on December 16, 2019, three different petitions asked the full Federal Circuit to overturn a panel’s decision that members of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) were appointed in violation of the...more
On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court preserved inter partes review (and similar procedures), but made a significant change in how it will be conducted. In Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group, the Court held...more
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether inter partes review, the procedure that allows a Patent and Trademark Office tribunal to invalidate patents, is unconstitutional. A decision agreeing with the constitutional...more