Trade secret litigation after the Defend Trade Secrets Act
Connecticut Collections: How to get paid if you are owed money? Part 2: Prejudgment Remedy ("PJR")
A pleasant surprise for employers. A California appeals court ruled last week that an employer did not waive its right to arbitration -- despite the fact that the parties had been in litigation for more than 13 months...more
Communications with a party represented by another lawyer absent consent (sometimes called “blitzes”) are permitted in putative class actions, a federal court has ruled in a case brought under the Class Action Fairness Act...more
The web is a rich, varied, yet essentially untapped data source. Are you making full use of it in your eDiscovery? People today live their lives in full view on the web, from social media and messaging apps to chatrooms...more
Following the promulgation of Law n°2018-670 on the Protection of Trade Secrets on 30 July 2008 transposing the provisions of Directive (EU) 2016/493 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on the...more
• The Florida Supreme Court has dealt a significant blow to Florida's medical malpractice pre-suit process, ruling that statutes authorizing the conduct of informal, ex parte interviews with a medical malpractice claimant's...more
Kleimar N.V., the plaintiff in a London arbitration against defendant Dalian Dongzhan Group Co. Ltd. (Dailan), filed an ex parte application with the New York District Court seeking the issuance of a discovery order and...more
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ?TTAB? will implement new rules on January 14, 2017, that will apply to all inter partes proceedings (oppositions, cancellations, concurrent use) and ex parte appeals that are pending on,...more
The rule changes are aimed at streamlining proceedings before the TTAB. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB or the Board) will implement several important rule changes as of January 14, 2017. The changes will...more
A recent federal court order highlights the scope, and the limitations, of a U.S. court’s authority to order domestic discovery for use in a foreign proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. The court in In re Ex Parte Application...more
On March 22, 2016, in Latrice Rubenstein v. Doe No. 1 (Case No. D066722), the Fourth Appellate District, Division One, held that the delayed discovery rule set forth in the pertinent statute of limitations, Code of Civil...more