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The court ruled [PDF] that the phrase “patent troll” and other rhetorical characterizations are not the type of factual statements that can be the basis of a defamation claim. While this is a fairly routine application of defamation law and the First Amendment, it is an important reminder that patent... Continue reading
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New Hampshire Court: First Amendment Says You Can Call A Patent Troll A Patent Troll Techdirt Full coverage
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal appeals court has struck down Maryland’s first-in-the-nation law against pharmaceutical price gouging. A divided three-judge … It enabled Maryland’s attorney general to sue makers of off-patent or generic drugs that make an “unconscionable” price increase. That was …
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Greene’s Energy Group LLC, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s inter partes review procedure is constitutional. IPRs are administrative procedures that review a patent’s validity. The administrative law body responsible for administering these …
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Frosh’s office could not immediately be reached for comment. The law required health officials share with the attorney general’s office price information about generic drugs — that is, those not subject to a patent. If the state’s lawyers could show that prices were being raised too steeply, they could step... Continue reading
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Fed Circ. Won’t Rethink ‘Scandalous’ Trademark Ruling Law360 Full coverage
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CLEVELAND, April 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — At the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association’s April meeting on April 12, McDonald Hopkins’ intellectual property attorney Mark C. Guinto received the United States Patent and Trademark Office Outstanding Volunteer Award for assisting individuals …
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He performed post-doctoral research at the German Cancer Research Institute and at the University of California at Berkeley, followed by serving as a group leader at Genentech Inc. where he was exposed to patent-related issues sparking his interest in intellectual property. He earned his law degree …
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As proof that not all uses of the term “patent troll” are pejorative, Tucker cites a law review article that explains patent trolls play a function as intermediaries specializing in litigation, a role that is not in and of itself a bad thing. So a passage in an article that... Continue reading
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