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A Current Look at the State of Inequitable Conduct and Other Equitable Concerns




Inequitable conduct is an “equitable defense to patent infringement that, if proved, bars enforcement of a patent. ” Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. , 649 F. 3d 1276,...Read more

Tom Irving
Partner, Marbury Law Group, USA

Xiaoguang Michelle Gao
Associate VP - Assistant General Patent Counsel , Eli Lilly and Company, USA
Stacy Lewis
Law Clerk, Finnegan, USA
Jordan Cowger
Finnegan, USA
Melissa Santos
Finnegan, USA
Why the Silence on Vertical Price Restraints?
Despite pronouncements that a “New Wave” of antitrust enforcement is underway, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) have exercised collective silence...Read more

R. Mark McCareins
General Counsel, Metals Service Center Institute, USA
Patent law differs in each country, but there are some important equitable doctrines that apply across borders. One such a doctrine is prosecution history estoppel.
The term Estoppel ...Read more

Roy Girasa
Professor of Law, Pace University, USA

R. Mark McCareins
General Counsel, Metals Service Center Institute, USA
What Every Lawyer Should Know About Digital Forensics
Retaining a subject matter expert should provide you with not just the sound analysis of the technical subject but also an education for you and perhaps a judge and jury....Read more

Jon Berryhill
President & COO, Berryhill Computer Forensics Inc., USA
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My aim is to consider the legal regulation of the public corporation and its governance from the perspective of natural law theory. There are many theories of natural law that...Read more
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Michael Ambrosio
Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law, USA
Don’t Waste All your Lawyer’s Time on Legal Matters
Hire In-House General Counsel, Because You are Adding Four Key Workhorses All in One
1. A broad technical expert in all the engineering and science aspects of your company.
2. An unconventional...Read more
Paul Grahovac
Building Envelope Codes, Standards and Field Support, General Counsel, Director of New Business Develo, PROSOCO Inc, USA
Smart Farming and Managing Data

You may find walking down the frozen food aisle of a grocery store less than extraordinary. Unless, of course, you are particularly hungry. Hungry or not, if you consider that...Read more

Steven Schossberger
General Counsel and Vice President, Oregon Potato Company, USA

Skylar Schossberger
J.D. Candidate , University of Idaho College of Law, USA
Independence of the Compliance Function & What Makes a Compliance Officer Successful
This article addresses the question of why the Compliance Function in financial services firms, including banks, needs to be independent, and the factors that can contribute to such independence. “‘Independent’...Read more

Elizabeth Fiorelli
Assistant Adviser of Global Legal and Compliance , Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited, New York Branch, USA
Musings on Pay Transparency – What do Practitioners See Happening?



New York State is poised to implement the Pay Transparency Act (the “Act”), a law aimed at “address[ing] systemic pay inequity and discrimination through increased pay transparency by requiring employers...Read more

Patrick Boyd
Founding Partner, The Boyd Law Group, USA
Maxwell Popkin
Law Clerk, The Boyd Law Group, USA

Valerie Phillips
Associate Partner and Head of Americas Legal Practice, Danos Group, USA
The Use of Crowdsource Funding and Game Theory in the Decentralized Arbitration Process



The accelerated pace of digitalization has created exponential growth in the number of transactions that are being conducted online and across jurisdictional boundaries. With this surge in e-commerce comes a...Read more

Liz Maag
General Counsel, Aware, USA

Zachary Pyers
Attorney and Partner, Reminger Co., L.P.A., USA

Bella Jagielski
Legal Intern, Aware, USA

Kenton Steele
Attorney, Reminger Co., L.P.A., USA