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Lawyers Predict Small Impact From White House IP Wish List
The White House's IP enforcement coordinator, Victoria Espinel, submitted a wish list to Congress recommending 20 changes to federal intellectual property law largely aimed at ramping up criminal punishment for IP infringement. But IP lawyers said the recommendations would likely have only a tenuous effect on civil IP litigation or patent prosecution.
Rulings Support eBay California Forum Selection Clause
If you plan to sue eBay Inc., you better know the way to San Jose. In a growing trend, federal judges are enforcing the "forum selection clause" in eBay's standard user agreement, which calls for any dispute between eBay and its users to be resolved through a court action filed in Santa Clara County, Calif.Lawyers Predict Small Impact From White House IP List
IP lawyers said the white paper recommendations, which ranged from increasing the sentences for economic espionage and drug counterfeiting to changing the way music royalties are paid, would likely have only a tenuous effect, if any, on the civil IP litigation or patent prosecution.Judge Rules eBay Can Name Forum in Contract With Users
In a growing trend, federal judges are enforcing the "forum selection clause" in eBay Inc.'s standard user agreement, which calls for any dispute to be resolved through a court action filed in Santa Clara County, Calif. "EBay operates around the world and it is not shocking for it to want to focus its legal defense in a particular forum rather than have to litigate in potentially hundreds or thousands of other jurisdictions," a Pennsylvania federal district court judge wrote in an opinion last week.
Two-Tiered Conditional Settlements OK'd in Asbestos-Related Case
Eleven insurance companies may be obligated to cover the 33,000 asbestos-related conditional settlements between General Refractories Co. and its former workers, a federal judge ruled last week.
Judge Throws Out Criminal Defendant's Whistleblower Suit
Legally speaking, it's impossible to sing and blow a whistle at the same time, a federal judge in Harrisburg has ruled.
Judge Throws Out Former Hospital GC's Whistleblower Suit
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