In a recent decision, the Georgia Supreme Court reaffirmed that under Georgia law, when an out-of-state corporation registers with the Georgia Secretary of State to conduct business in Georgia, it consents to general personal...more
Companies authorized to transact business in Georgia may not be aware of the potential consequences: merely registering to do business with the Georgia Secretary of State confers general personal jurisdiction in Georgia over...more
Many states have statutes establishing that, as a condition of registering to do business in a state, a foreign corporation consents to general personal jurisdiction in that state. Since the Supreme Court’s decision in...more
The Justice Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Resources Board announced a joint settlement totaling roughly $1.5 billion with Daimler AG and its US subsidiary Mercedes Benz to resolve...more
In the span of two weeks in August, two different owners of allegedly standard essential patent (SEP) portfolios—asserted against the implementation of cellular standards including 4G/LTE—won cases in Germany and in the...more
China is answering the White House’s latest tariff announcement with another $60 billion in levies on US goods of its own....more
The European Commission on Tuesday announced its decision finding truck makers MAN, Volvo/Renault, Daimler, Iveco, and DAF liable for violating EU antitrust rules. The companies acknowledged that for 14 years they colluded...more
Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(e), filing an Abbreviated Biologics License Application (aBLA)—like filing an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA)— can be an act of patent infringement resulting in ‘artificial’ injury to a patentee....more
Plaintiffs routinely try to impute the activities of US subsidiary companies to their non-US parents in an effort to obtain jurisdiction over the parents in American courts. While there is broad agreement as to the general...more
Two judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey have denied motions to dismiss for personal jurisdiction in Hatch-Waxman litigations based on the defendants’ compliance with New Jersey’s foreign...more
1. Criminal Division AAG Promises Increased Transparency in Corporate Charging Decisions. In an April 17, 2015 speech at New York University Law School’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, Leslie Caldwell,...more
Case Name: Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Mylan Pharms. Inc., Nos. 14-935-LPS, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4056 (D. Del. Jan. 14, 2015) (Stark, C.J.). Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Ampyra® (dalfampridine); U.S. Pats. Nos....more
Case Name: Forest Labs., Inc. v. Amneal Pharms. LLC, Civ. No. 14-508-LPS, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23215 (D. Del. Feb. 26, 2015) (Burke, M.J.). Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Namenda XR® (memantine hydrochloride); U.S....more
Case Name: Otsuka Pharm. Co., Ltd. v. Mylan Inc., No. 14-4508 (JBS/KMW), 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35679 (D.N.J. Mar. 23, 2015) (Simandle, C.J.) . Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Abilify® (aripiprazole); U.S. Patents...more
Case Name: Senju Pharm. Co., Ltd. v. Metrics, Inc., Civ. No. 14-3962-JBS/KMW, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 41504 (D.N.J. Mar. 31, 2015) (Simandle, J.) ....more
The United States Supreme Court turned conventional wisdom on its head about the reach of personal jurisdiction 12 months ago in its unanimous opinion in Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S. Ct. 746 (2014). Personal jurisdiction...more
This is an ANDA case relating to generic dalfampridine extended-release tablets. The court finds, following that the Daimler decision, that neither the parent nor subsidiary defendant are “at home” in Delaware for purposes of...more
In Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S. Ct. 746 (2014), the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision that significantly limited where a corporate defendant is subject to general jurisdiction in the United States. This ruling...more
Bedder Sailz, a salesman for Orange Computers, Inc., lives in Seattle, Washington, and frequently travels on business. After successfully closing a computer deal in Dallas, Sailz catches East-West-Wings (EWW) flight #101 from...more
In two recent decisions with critical implications for maritime practitioners and litigants in particular, the United States Supreme Court has re-written the script for determining the existence of personal jurisdiction over...more