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Intellectual Property
Weil Panelists Discuss Pending IP-Related Court Cases That Could Impact Your Business
Weiswasser: I’m going to cover a few of the patent cases that are before the Court this term. This term, the Court is going to be testing certain core questions of what can be patented and what is needed to show patent infringement, and also scrutinizing the circumstances in which fee-...
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False Claims Act Investigations After Halliburton
A hotly contested discovery dispute in United States ex rel. Barko v. Halliburton Co., a False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam action, has recently grabbed the headlines. In early March, a federal district judge in the District of Columbia ordered the production of documents that were created in the...
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Anticipating The Inevitable: What Every Company Should Think About Before A Data Breach Occurs
Introduction Businesses today collect ever-increasing amounts of personal information about their customers, from account passwords and email addresses to highly sensitive medical and financial information. Well-funded, sophisticated hackers are always looking for ways to obtain such...
Read MoreThe Environmental Regulatory Landscape: Beyond The Politics, A Water Crisis Looms
Editor: Please tell us a little about your professional backgrounds. Connolly: I am head of the corporate transactional practice at Weil, and I’ve been practicing environmental law at Weil for 25-plus years. Goslin: I’ve been an associate at Weil in the Environmental Transactions...
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Fourth Circuit Denies False Claims Act Liability For Regulatory Violations Related To Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a False Claims Act (“FCA”) suit against Omnicare, Inc. and related entities in relation to Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement of drugs that the relator alleged were...
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The U.S. Supreme Court Hears Halliburton II
The Supreme Court heard argument in Halliburton II last week.[1] At issue is whether the Court should overrule the fraud on the market presumption that it adopted in its 1988 decision, Basic Inc. v. Levinson,[2] which obviated the need for plaintiffs in securities fraud class actions to...
Read MoreDOJ's Successful Challenge Of Bazaarvoice’s Acquisition: A Reminder That Consummated Deals Are Not Immune From Section 7 Scrutiny
By successfully challenging Bazaarvoice’s acquisition of PowerReviews in district court, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has provided yet another reminder that consummated transactions can be subject to antitrust review and enforcement action.[1] In a decision filed on January 8, 2014, the...
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