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Commercial Litigation Outlook - 2024

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By any measure, the world has changed vastly since we issued our first Commercial Litigation Outlook in 2020. We are now on our fourth installment of providing insights and flagging trends for what to expect in the coming...more

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M&A Checklist — How to Prepare Your IP for the Legal Due Diligence Process

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The deal market reached historic levels in recent years, with record-setting merger and acquisition activity in 2021. Markets have since cooled, with capital becoming harder to find. But any company preparing to sell within...more

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Merger Clause in a Patent License Agreement May Not Extinguish a Prior Covenant Not to Sue

The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s holding that a merger clause in a patent license settlement agreement did not extinguish a prior covenant not to sue on the same patent because the agreement did not...more

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Buyer Beware: Post-Facto Mergers a New Potential IPR Killer

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Overturning prior PTAB precedent, the Federal Circuit has now held that post-facto business mergers that create a new real-party-in-interest (“RPI”) trigger the one-year bar date for filing IPR petitions on patents asserted...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Privity and Immunity: The Federal Circuit Issues Two Precedential Decisions Addressing Who Can Petition for and Who Can Be Subject...

Late last week, the Federal Circuit issued Power Integrations, Inc. v. Semiconductor Components Indus., LLC and Regents of the Univ. of Minnesota v. LSI Corp. These two precedential decisions bring further clarity to who is...more

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