Tag: SCOTUS

David Tayar, William Rooney, Agathe Richard, Sep 30, 2013 After more than a decade of debate and complex litigation on "reverse payment" settlements, the Supreme...

Kyle Musgrove, Richard Ripley, Sep 30, 2013 Three months now have passed following the Supreme Court's decision inFTC v. Actavis, 133 S. Ct. 2223 (2013),...

Kent Bernard, Sep 30, 2013 A Hatch-Waxman settlement case finally reached the Supreme Court, and when it did the Court in FTC v. Actavis rejected both...

Ariel Lavinbuk, May 28, 2013 In Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons Inc., the Supreme Court held that the Copyright Act's first-sale doctrine applies to...

Brian Willen, May 28, 2013 For hundreds of years, the "first sale" doctrine has been central to copyright law. It helps reconcile a fundamental tension...

John Villasenor, May 28, 2013 In 1908, the Supreme Court articulated the first sale doctrine, holding inBobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus that a copyright owner's "right to...

Aaron Panner, May 28, 2013 In Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the Supreme Court decided by a 6-3 margin that the "first sale" doctrine,...

Scott Hemphill, Jeannie Suk, May 28, 2013 Earlier this year, in an important copyright ruling, the Supreme Court dropped a puzzling clue about copyright for...

Jay Himes, Meegan Hollywood, Jun 13, 2012 On April 11, 2012, media outlets exploded with the news that the Department of Justice had filed a...

Chris Sagers, Jun 13, 2012 I think United States v. Apple, the so-called "e-Books case" pending in the Southern District of New York, is an excellent...