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Initially finding a foothold in Australian and British litigation, third-party litigation funding has made its way to the U.S. Investors have started staking claim in large, corporate lawsuits. The reason? According to this article, investors are “on the lookout for U.S. litigants who would allow them to finance their cases in return for a portion [...]

This opinion outlines the Supreme Court’s decision of a 2002 case involving the Ontario Police Department and its officers’ privacy rights as they pertain to electronic communication. The City provided pagers for sending and receiving text messages to the Ontario Police Department. The City’s “contract with its service provider…provided for a monthly limit on the [...]

In September of 2007, plaintiff Matthew Pequignot “brought a qui tam action…alleging that Solo had falsely marked its products with ‘797 and ‘569 patent numbers for the purpose of deceiving the public, despite knowing that those patents had expired.” In August of 2009, the court granted Solo summary judgment, citing “no intent to deceive and [...]

The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System conducted a survey of Chief Legal Officers and General Counsel “in an effort to capture how businesses experience the American civil justice process.”  The results, outlined in this report, suggest that litigants are concerned with the cost (both monetary and otherwise) of e-discovery. The results [...]

“Google” was added to the Miriam-Webster Dictionary in 2006 and with Google Books on the horizon, it comes as no surprise that Google has entered another frontier—the world of patents.  On Wednesday, Secretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office David Kappos announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office [...]