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Thursday, May 30, 9:30-10:45 a.m. EST:
"Patent Assertion Entities" & Antitrust:
The FTC/DOJ Inquiry and Underlying Legal Policy Issues

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Lisa Kimmel, Federal Trade Commission

Lonnie Rosenwald, Intellectual Ventures

Thomas C. Ewing, Esq., Avancept LLP


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In re Final Rules on Transparency Reporting
On May 15, 2013, WLF wrote to senior officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), urging them to exempt dissemination of medical textbooks from its rules governing “payments or other transfers of value” made by pharmaceutical...
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Commonwealth of Kentucky ex rel. Conway v. GlaxoSmithKline
On May 15, 2013, WLF filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky urging it not to deprive an out-of-state business defendant of its right to a federal forum in a case strategically filed by the Kentucky Attorney...
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Bowman v. Monsanto Co.
On May 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of patent holders to require farmers to pay royalties for use of genetically modified seeds. The decision was a victory for WLF, which filed a brief urging the Court to uphold patent rights....
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Young v. Johnson & Johnson
On May 9, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a trial court decision that barred plaintiffs’ lawyers from bringing state-law tort suits against food purveyors for making nutrition claims on their product packaging. The...
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Ohio Consumer Class Actions No Longer Mired In (Low-) Tar Pit?
By Anne Marie Sferra, a partner, and Kara Herrnstein, an associate, with the law firm of Bricker & Eckler LLP, based in Columbus, Ohio.
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Shale Drilling In Ohio: A Case Study In Balancing Public And Private Interests
By Michael J. Zimmer, Senior Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Thompson Hine LLP.
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Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Nationals In Foreign Bribery Cases Curtailed
By Claudius O. Sokenu, a former senior counsel with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Enforcement and a partner in the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of the law firm Arnold & Porter LLP; and Arthur Luk, a Washington, D.C. partner with Arnold & Porter LLP.
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May 30, 2013 | 9:30 - 10:30 A.M. EST
“Patent Assertion Entities” and Antitrust: The FTC/DOJ Inquiry and Underlying Legal Policy Issues
Lisa Kimmel, Attorney Advisor to Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, Federal Trade Commission
Lonnie Rosenwald, Chief Counsel, Invention Science & Development, Intellectual Ventures
Thomas C. Ewing, Esq., Avancept LLP
 
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