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Tough Medicine, Part 2: Litigation lessons from Medtronic

JD Supra Law

2018)) of its earlier decision. In that earlier opinion (Medtronic I), the Tax Court held that Medtronic appropriately applied a comparable uncontrolled transaction (CUT) method to determine the arm’s-length royalty rate for certain licensing of intangible property, using a 1992 patent litigation settlement agreement.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently-O

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Five Men Indicted For Uploading Movies & Then Extorting ‘Pirate’ Downloaders

TorrentFreak

Licensed ‘Copyright Cockroaches’ Early June 2022, news outlets in Taiwan reported that former ultramarathon runner, entrepreneur, political critic, and law graduate Kevin Lin was a suspect in a “copyright cockroach” case. In May 2021, licenses were obtained from Vie Vision Pictures Co.

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What Are The Various Copyright Law Issues With Apps Like Spotify In The Modern Tussle Between Artists And Corporate Giants?

IP and Legal Filings

Image Sources: Shutterstock] The earliest examples of unsolicited sharing of works without proper licensing pertains to the development of Napster in the early 21 st century. obtained without express due permission from the license holder). They believe in subscription-based music sales that don’t include direct (i.e.,

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. To my knowledge, the only litigated case that resulted in a 512(f) win was Online Policy Group v. The second comer/licensee assigned the exclusive license to a successor licensee, the defendant in this case. Can you see why this case is so confusing?

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Completed Case Roundup

BYU Copyright Blog

Over the last several years, we have reported on a number of cases that have reached quiet settlements or otherwise fizzled out without us acknowledging their end. This dispute concerned an image shared under a Creative Commons license, which was allegedly used by the law firm Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. (the

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Gilead and ViiV Healthcare Settle Global Patent Dispute for Over $1B USD

IPilogue

This article delves into the legal doctrines that support the parties’ claims and the overarching strategy to their settlement. In the end, settlement was in the best interests of both parties. Sales forecasts for the drug were $1B USD in 2018 and rising to $5B USD annually by 2024 (see Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S ).

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