FTC Asks - Again - to File Amicus in Drug Patent Case

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • FTC Asks - Again - to File Amicus in Drug Patent Case • Report Details Courts' Use of Social Media Tools • Intellectual Ventures Deploys In-House D.C. Lobbyist • Hogan Lovells Partner Joins SEC • Jury Awards $2M in Bellwether Mesh Device Trial • Federal Judges Team up to Decry Spending Cuts to Courts FTC Asks - Again - to File Amicus in Drug Patent Case Flush from its victory earlier this year before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Trade Commission has asked to submit an amicus curiae brief in a New Jersey federal case involving a drug patent settlement that delayed generic competition. The... Read More » Report Details Courts' Use of Social Media Tools For the second year in a row, the District of Columbia court system's annual Law Day festivities on May 1 included an hour-long Twitter Q&A session with the chief judges of the city's trial and appellate courts. A new survey... Read More » Intellectual Ventures Deploys In-House D.C. Lobbyist Intellectual Ventures Management, which its critics consider one of the largest U.S. "patent trolls," has deployed its first in-house lobbyist in Washington, D.C. The Bellevue, Wash.-based patent holding company has sent its chief policy counsel, Russell Merbeth, to the capital... Read More » Hogan Lovells Partner Joins SEC Hogan Lovells partner Eun Ah Choi will join the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission next week as the managing executive of the Division of Investment Management. Choi, who represented publicly and privately held companies, boards of directors, and investment banks... Read More » Jury Awards $2M in Bellwether Mesh Device Trial A jury in the first federal trial over transvaginal mesh devices awarded $2 million on Thursday to a woman who alleged that the manufacturer failed to warn about defects in its product that caused her bleeding and pain. Read More » Federal Judges Team up to Decry Spending Cuts to Courts In an unusual show of agreement and public lobbying, the chief judges of nearly every federal district court have joined to warn Congress of the damage budget cuts have done to judicial operations. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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