A Virginia Beach company that supplies advanced equipment for the U.S. military’s search-and-rescue operations has agreed to pay $16 million to settle allegations that it fraudulently obtained government contracts and engaged in illegal bid-rigging schemes, the Justice Department announced Continue Reading
3 Must-Knows for Provisional Patent Applications
Provisional patent applications have taken on increased significance in recent years and can be a savvy business move and help inventors stake a claim to an invention, but if not done right, provisionals can leave applicants with no protections or, worse yet, undermine their patents down the road. Continue Reading
Outside the Box: Wyley Proctor Says Domestic Violence Pro Bono Work Helps Victims, Lawyers
IP and restraining orders, those seem like two very different areas of law. How does one translate to the other? IP litigation, I find it to be extremely intellectual. Restraining orders and family law are much more human. There’s much more emotion involved, usually. The stakes are usually Continue Reading
Roche May Test Liberal NJ Expert Standard In Accutane Battle
Commenting on the recent decision by the New Jersey Appellate Division to revive more than 2,000 cases alleging Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.’s acne medication Accutane caused patients to develop Crohn's disease, Mr. Fanning noted with respect to the dubious expert testimony in the matter, “this is an Continue Reading
Top Gov’t Contracts Cases of 2017: Midyear Report
A host of decisions trying to interpret a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling, alongside key developments on the implied duty of good faith, the allowability of claimed costs and contractor liability, headline important litigation developments for government contractors so far in 2017. “The idea Continue Reading
Top Gov’t Contracts Policies of 2017: Midyear Report
2017 introduced several major policy changes that will affect federal contractors’ operations for years to come, from the implementation of a stringent new defense cybersecurity rule and the repeal of a deeply unpopular rule on labor violations to provisions of a sprawling Pentagon budget bill that Continue Reading
Hackers Beware: Courts in NJ Extend Jurisdiction
In two unrelated decisions issued Wednesday, New Jersey courts have asserted jurisdiction over accused hackers who have no connection to the state, but allegedly sought to inflict harm on Garden State residents. Published decisions focusing on jurisdiction in hacking cases are a welcome sight for Continue Reading
Mass. High Court Ruling May Swell Insureds’ Litigation Costs
The Massachusetts high court's ruling Thursday that an insurer's duty to defend doesn't include an obligation to prosecute a client's counterclaims could increase litigation costs for policyholders by forcing them to hire separate attorneys to manage a case's defensive and offensive strategies, Continue Reading
NJ, ‘World’s Medicine Chest,’ May See More Pharma Litigation After ‘Bristol-Myers’
Lawyers handling drug-defect suits say New Jersey courts could see an uptick in volume of pharmaceutical and medical device suits in light of this week's Supreme Court ruling in a California case that narrowed access to jurisdiction for out-of-state plaintiffs. The justices' holding on Monday Continue Reading
No Clarity on the Horizon for Anti-Drone Technology
With the rapid uptake of unmanned aircraft systems, both the drone industry and property owners — among others — want certainty on the legality of nascent “anti-drone” technology, but the state of related law is murky at best and is likely to remain so for at least the near future. “This is one Continue Reading