McCarter partner Hugh Murray authored an article regarding advantages and drawbacks to gender identification in a professional email signature block for Society for Human Resource Management. Continue Reading
Wallflowers: Biosimilars Don’t Dance – They Go to the PTAB
McCarter partners Erik Paul Belt and Maria Laccotripe Zacharakis, PhD, co-authored an article on strategies that biologic drug innovators can use to strengthen their patents against challenges from biosimilars. This article first appeared IAM Life Sciences: Key issues for senior life sciences Continue Reading
A Practical Metric For Annual Patent Filing Targets: Part 2
In Part 1 of this three-part article, we presented a metric to determine a theoretical target for the number of nonprovisional U.S. patent applications to file each year. The theoretical target was based on the amount spent on U.S. research and development by a company and on the company's industry Continue Reading
Avoiding Disputes over Who Decides Arbitrability in New Jersey
Drafting an arbitration provision that complies with the standards articulated by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Atalese v. U.S. Legal Services Group, 219 N.J. 430 (2014), is a necessary first step to ensuring a New Jersey dispute is resolved through arbitration. But what happens when the Continue Reading
A Practical Metric For Annual Patent Filing Targets: Part 1
How many patent applications should we file this year? This question is contemplated annually by many intellectual property departments. The answer affects which of the company's goods or services will have patent protection, which future product lines will be patent-covered, how large of a patent Continue Reading
Interest Tolling in Mortgage Foreclosure Actions Abrogates Contract Rights and Is Unlawful Under CPLR 5001
Some New York courts have begun routinely tolling prejudgment mortgage interest as a sanction against mortgage lenders and servicers for perceived delays in the foreclosure process. Exercising their “equitable powers,” courts have canceled prejudgment interest as a penalty for delays resulting from, Continue Reading
March to the Beat of Your Own Drummer: Amazon’s Executive Compensation Practices
Howard Berkower with assistance from Andy Tsang authored a column discussing Amazon’s ongoing success and its unique executive compensation model for the New York Law Journal. Assisted by the effects of the global pandemic, Amazon’s sales of $386 billion represented a 38% increase from 2019 and Continue Reading
Delaware Courts Hold Jurisdiction to Determine Whether Second Arbitration Is Untimely Collateral Attack on First Arbitration Award
McCarter partner Andrew Dupre authored an article that discusses who, in the state of Delaware, decides whether a second arbitration is an impermissible collateral attack on a confirmed award from a first arbitration. This article originally appeared in Mealey’s International Arbitration Report. Continue Reading
Continuing to Insure Title During the Pandemic
Joseph Forte authored an article for the CRE & Multifamily Finance in the Spotlight (CRE Finance Council) entitled "Continuing to Insure Title During the Pandemic." Continue Reading
Trust and Estate Implications Involving Potentially Incapacitated Persons
Gerard Brew authored an article discussing a recent decision by the Supreme Court of New Jersey that raises a host of issues about decision making by those who encounter sudden disability or possible mental impairment of incapacity for the New Jersey Law Journal. Continue Reading