Cogency Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

What this is : These handy checklists will help ensure all required provisions are included when you are drafting merger documents to file in Delaware. What this means : Merger documents can be complicated. This article can help you avoid rejection and ensure the merger is filed in a timely manner.

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IP Law 360

JULY 25, 2023

Delaware's Court of Chancery spurred modifications in AMC Entertainment's proposed deal with stockholders last week, welcomed updates to the state's corporation laws and logged new suits from shareholders in tech companies, a metal producer, a biotech and an artificial intelligence outfit.

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Trading Secrets

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Delaware has long been favored by businesses for many reasons, including its courts’ deference to parties’ ability to contract. Recently, however, the Delaware Chancery Court was seemingly less deferential to restrictive covenant agreements in circumstances outside of the traditional employment agreement context. Ainslie , Case No.

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Cogency Global

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

What this is : The Delaware Secretary of State is so efficient that you can frequently obtain required supporting documents for due diligence checklists, legal opinions and opening bank accounts on a same-day basis, often within an hour. However, there are certain situations where you may not be able to get what you need on a rush basis.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 21, 2023

Widespread shuffling of Court of Chancery case assignments suddenly made sense last week after Delaware's court of equity announced its top judge will take a temporary medical leave.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A California software company has won a ruling out of Delaware federal court that software it sells doesn't indirectly infringe decade-old microchip patents, though the state's top federal judge spent some time complaining about the filing practices of the tech company's lawyers, writing that he "arguably should have" rejected their motion out of hand. (..)

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A Delaware judge has thrown out a patent infringement suit against Uber over its surge pricing system Wednesday, finding SurgeTech's inventory sale methods covered by the patents were not fixing a technical problem, but solving human inefficiency.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 14, 2023

In case you missed any of it, here's the latest from Delaware's Chancery Court. Chancery Court gave AMC Entertainment the go-ahead on a stockholder settlement, slowed down a railroad dispute and vetted new suits from shareholders of US Bancorp, Fisker and Amazon.

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IP Law 360

MAY 15, 2023

In Delaware Chancery Court last week, Pandora stockholders announced a settlement, Hertz stockholders filed a new suit, Facebook stockholders scored a win, Oracle stockholders suffered a loss, and Block stockholders launched an appeal. In case you missed any of it, here's your weekly run-down of news out of Delaware's Chancery Court.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This week, Delaware Governor John Carney signed the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act into law. The outreach effort will inform Delaware consumers of their rights under the new law and describe businesses’ obligations. The bill goes into effect on January 1, 2025, and a public outreach effort will begin by July 1, 2024.

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IP Law 360

JULY 18, 2023

Delaware's Chancery Court kicked off trials last week over a failed autoimmune drug candidate and a casino resort in the Philippines, logged a record-breaking derivative settlement and announced that its only Sussex County-based vice chancellor will stay on for another term.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 4, 2023

billion sale to Microsoft — nothing is too big or complicated for Delaware's Chancery Court to put on its agenda. Blockchain gaming, lithium-battery production, nutrition supplements and Activision's $68.7 The year is winding down, but things haven't slowed in the nation's top court of equity.

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JUNE 16, 2023

In case you missed it, here's a recap of all the top news out of Delaware's Chancery Court. Last week in Chancery Court, an aircraft suit crashed, a football suit sailed out of bounds, and shareholders made up with a cosmetics company. The Chancery also registered new cases involving used cars and self-driving trucks.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Supreme Court decision limiting the use of Section 1782, recent trends from a Delaware federal court suggest that Delaware remains an appealing forum for such foreign discovery requests, says Florentina Field at Abrams & Bayliss. Despite a U.S.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Delaware has long been favored by businesses for many reasons, including its courts’ deference to parties’ ability to contract. Recently, however, the Delaware Chancery Court was seemingly less deferential to restrictive covenant agreements in circumstances outside of the traditional employment agreement context.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Delaware courts started getting ready for the holidays this week, gifting one of their top justices to the Third Circuit, putting a bow on a multimillion-dollar fee award, and wrapping up a cognac dispute for an arbitrator. Hope you enjoy the last wrap-up this year of last week's news from Delaware's Chancery Court.

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MARCH 4, 2024

A Swedish music producer's takeover, a proposed award payable in Tesla shares, Truth Social stock squabbles, and an unusually blunt slap down from the bench added up to an especially colorful week in Delaware's famous court of equity.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2024

A Delaware jury found in a verdict posted Wednesday that Vector Flow Inc. willfully infringed rival security company HID Global Corp.'s s data security patent and misused two of its trade secrets, awarding HID Global a grand total of $45 million between the two claims.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 8, 2024

Last week in Delaware's court of equity, Berkshire Hathaway took the last exit in a dispute with the minority owner of Pilot truck stops, Guess Inc. Here are all the new year's top highlights so far out of Delaware's Chancery Court. Here are all the new year's top highlights so far out of Delaware's Chancery Court.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday upheld a Delaware district court’s ruling that Belcher Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s In a precedential decision written by Judge Reyna, the U.S. s Chief Science Officer engaged in inequitable conduct, making its U.S. 9,283,197 unenforceable. Belcher brought the suit against Hospira, Inc.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 2, 2024

Federal Circuit Judge William Bryson, sitting by designation in the District of Delaware, ruled on summary judgment that inter partes review (IPR) estoppel does not apply to device art, even if the device is cumulative of patents or printed publications that were or could have been asserted in an IPR.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 6, 2023

Shareholders of AMC Entertainment, Rocket Mortgage and UpHealth saw their cases move forward in Delaware's Court of Chancery last week; shareholders of Meta Platforms and McDonald's had their suits tossed; and shareholders of MultiPlan Corp., Viacom Inc. and Charter Communications Inc.,

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 29, 2024

All told, a typical week for Delaware's court of equity. A transportation services company and cryptocurrency fund both exited litigation, a grill maker and EV-charging company fired up new cases, and biotechs bandaged old wounds while judges fast-tracked a musical power struggle and unwound a REIT deal.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 16, 2024

Delaware's Court of Chancery tuned in to several music-related disputes last week, with two settlements involving Sirius XM and a new case over the late musician Prince's estate. Other litigation related to various ventures focused on house-flipping, house-cleaning, home-building, funerals and hospital workers' scrubs.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Where else could all this happen but in Delaware's Court of Chancery? A cryptocurrency company sues over social media slurs, a celebrity rapper feuds with a distiller over cognac, and a "no glasses" 3D television company gets a new temporary boss.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 20, 2023

Ketchup, cannabis and a controversial Florida law were at the heart of rulings and court proceedings last week in Delaware's Chancery Court.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 28, 2022

District Judge Leonard Stark in Delaware has decades of experience litigating in the district, including an intellectual property law background that will serve him well in tackling the court's busy patent docket, observers say. The Fox Rothschild LLP partner nominated to replace U.S.

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Managing IP

APRIL 27, 2022

Sources at funders, law firms and an NPE debate what chief judge Colm Connolly’s standing order means for discovery and settlements in Delaware

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They're all part of the news out of Delaware Chancery Court this week. What do drones, electric cars, eggs, chocolate and time-wasting have in common? And that's not even counting all the disputes between Twitter Inc. and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, which are ratcheting up as the Oct. 17 trial over the scuttled $44 billion deal approaches.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 15, 2022

More than a dozen new cases in fields ranging from petrochemicals to biopharma to e-bikes hit Delaware's Court of Chancery last week, as the court's newest vice chancellor began doling out his first round of rulings.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 22, 2022

Shareholders of Santander Consumer USA, La Jolla Pharmaceutical, Nektar Therapeutics and Inovalon Holdings filed new suits in Delaware's Court of Chancery last week, and attorneys for billionaire Elon Musk and Twitter Inc. deforested a small hillside to document an increasing number of discovery disputes.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Delaware's Chancery Court stuffed a lot into a shortened Thanksgiving week, with new cases involving wrestling promoter Vince McMahon, billionaire Howard Lutnick and activist investor Carl Icahn.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

has defeated a suit in Delaware federal court that alleged various lines of the chipmaker's central processing units infringe technology developed by a University of Maryland professor who claimed to have invented an important idea in the world of "parallel computing" in 2006. Intel Corp.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Basketball and comic book legends made appearances in Delaware's Chancery Court during a shortened holiday week, along with gamblers, grocers, scientists and oil drillers. An investor in a company for building products petitioned for an appraisal, and a social media giant scored a win in its lawsuit against a big buyer with cold feet.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

has asked the United States District Court for the District of Delaware to throw out a $4.1 Intel Corp. billion patent lawsuit from VLSI Technology in a filing unsealed Friday, December 9.

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IP Law 360

MAY 23, 2022

Law360 sat down with the 58-year-old vice chancellor to talk about his 18 years as a Delaware judge and what he expects to do next. This is the final full work week for Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III, who retires on June 1.

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APRIL 27, 2023

In one of its first-ever patent infringement cases against a private company, the federal government next week will argue before a Delaware jury that Gilead is making billions of dollars in sales from HIV treatments that allegedly violate government-owned patents.

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