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

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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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Vermont Sues Oil Companies for Global Warming “Deception”

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The lawsuit requests a court to order oil companies, like ExxonMobil and Sunoco, to warn consumers about the dangers of fossil fuel products.

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Opioid manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals announces $4.35B settlement with state, local governments

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State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. The states are led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.

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Vermont Youth Claim “Obscene Abuse” at Woodside Detention Center

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The lawsuit claims that juvenile detainees were sometimes stripped naked by enraged staff.

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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know

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In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure. Constitution.” billion tons.

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Leahy's Bill Seeks To 'Course Correct' From Iancu's PTAB

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Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy has announced a bill to stop Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges from factoring in the timing of related litigation when deciding whether to review a patent, a policy shift that backtracks from the pro-patentee reforms implemented over the last few years.

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Protecting Real Innovations by Improving Patent Quality

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” Written testimony: Testimony of Bridget Asay (Litigator, Lead counsel for Vermont’s consumer-protection case against patent trolling). On June 22, the Subcommittee heard testimony on the topic of ongoing problems with “low quality patents.” Testimony of Julio Garceran (Chief IP Counsel at CREE).