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The Legacy of A.B. Dick and Motion Picture Patents: How these 100+ Year Old Ruling Reshaped Patent Law

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Before reaching the Supreme Court, the license restriction had been upheld in multiple prior cases involving the same parties, establishing a line of precedent in A.B. In a decision written by Justice Horace Harmon Lurton, the Court ruled in favor of the patent owner. ” The Court rejected the rationale of A.B.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 1/2021: Abstracts

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With the government draft of 25 September 2020, a comprehensive reform of guardianship and care law is approaching which will fundamentally modernize these areas. This reform also includes an amendment to the autonomous conflict-of-law rules in that area. The Court ruled out an interpretation not congruent with that in Art.

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Justices grant arbitration case, won’t take up Volkswagen emissions cases

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Concepcion , the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to put arbitration agreements “on an equal footing with other contracts.” On Monday, the court agreed to hear a lawsuit from a fast-food worker who alleges that a lower court treated an arbitration clause too favorably.

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Litigating Enforcement: Germany’s Contested Climate Governance and the New Wave of Climate Litigation

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The court concurred with this line of argument in its verdict (the details of which are pending as the reasons for the judgment have not yet been published). On the merits as well, the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. That incentive function would then be gone.

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Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill

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The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit seeking to roll back access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions. The FDA and Danco, which manufactures mifepristone, appealed to the U.S.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. In a separate order, the court granted the motions of states and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers to intervene in support of the respondents. Union of Concerned Scientists v.