: (Spicy IP),USD 20 billion going off-patent: (Patent Circle),Canadian Prices Review Board asserts jurisdiction over products sold in US, but imported into Canada under Special Access Program: (Gowlings),Canadian Court of Appeal affirms decision allowing patent-owner to be joined to proceedings: Cobalt v Pfizer and Pharmascience v Pfizer: (Gowlings),PharmaStem appeals stem cell patent: asks for greater deference to patent examiners: PharmaStem … [read post]

Recently, the Second Circuit issued a significant Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) decision construing the FOIA exemption covering law enforcement records that “would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law,” 5 U.S.C. [read post]

In its most recent manifestations one sees the imposition of public pressure on the National Basketball Association and on Apple Inc. respecting their entanglement in Xinjiang that increasingly serves as the defining point for the difference between US and Chinese normative approaches to public governance; here and here). [read post]

Thus, Judge Anderson intensely focuses upon the following Capital One/Mandiant engagement timeline:   November 30, 2015: Capital One enters into a master services agreement (“MSA”) with FireEye, Inc. and Mandiant, and thereafter enters into periodic statements of work (“SOW”) and purchase orders with Mandiant pursuant to the MSA. [read post]