Patent holders that make stuff tend to dislike holders that don't. They call them patent trolls.
Blawgletter has heard that juries don't share the anger. They view patents as property and see misuse of it as bad, even if the owners bought patents solely to extract licensing fees and, if necessary, to sue for infringement.
But the Federal
Shorting a stock places a bet that its price will fall. You short by promising to hand over the stock, on such and such date for $X. The gamble pays off if the price drops below $X.
But, to sell short, you can't own the stock. You are "short" it. How do you legally sell a stock you don't
Yesterday, the Supreme Court peppered Merck's lawyer with hot questions. Before he started, at least, the advocate likely harbored hope that he could convince Their Honors that the two-year statute of limitations under 28 U.S.C. 1658(b) starts running before the plaintiff could have alleged enough facts to survive a motion to dismiss under the tough pleading standards of Bell Atl. Corp.
This has nothing to do with AIG. Or does it?
The Special Investigator General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program issued an audit report last week. The paper — "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties" — goes 47 pages to explain why the Federal Reserve and its good friend the Treasury threw
Austin Hall, home of the Ames Courtroom.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation sets up shop at Harvard Law School on November 19.
Their Honors will hear argument on motions to centralize, in ONE district, cases pending in MULTIPLE districts.
The matters up on Thursday:
SECTION A
MATTERS DESIGNATED FOR ORAL ARGUMENT
MDL No.
Not so fast, Uncle Pennybags. We'll need you to take a SSNIP test.
On May 11, the new antitrust sheriff at the U.S. Department of Justice, Christine Varney, revoked the dominant firm-friendly report that the guy she replaced, Thomas O. Barnett, put out the autumn before.
Will dust-canning the section 2 report satisfy
You could put an eye out with that gavel.
Intel Corporation has made peace with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., the companies announced in IDENTICAL press releases today (here and here). The money part said:
[Blah blah blah,] and Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion. Intel has also agreed to abide
Flyswatter by Rube Goldberg.
You've heard about the genius whose incandescent idea for a new contraption wakes him in the hours before sunup. You'll also recall Edison's cutesy statement that "[g]enius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Both the burning thought that disturbs the inventor's slumber and the drudgery that produces the pre-dawn
On November 5, 1999, United States District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued an order, spanning 412 paragraphs, that constituted his findings of fact in United States v. Microsoft Corp., 98-1232 (D.D.C. Nov. 5, 1999). In the final paragraph, His Honor wrote:
Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's actions have conveyed to every enterprise
The case involved NVIDIA stock, which didn't do too well.
The Ninth Circuit chided a district court today for usurping a right that the panel held belongs to the "lead plaintiff" in cases under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 — the right to choose counsel for the putative class.
The PSLRA