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July 2, 2019
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a new rule in the Federal Register requiring foreign-domiciled trademark applicants, registrants, and parties to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings to be represented by an attorney who is licensed to practice law in the…
July 2, 2019
Observant readers may remember that a year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a mining case, a somewhat rare event for the Court. The case examined whether the Commonwealth of Virginia interfered with an area of law preempted by Congress under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEA) when it…
June 27, 2019
Rose Mary Knick owns 90 acres outside Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her property includes a residence, pasture and a small graveyard where the ancestors of neighbors are supposedly buried. Her Township adopted an ordinance, that broadly defined cemeteries to include the graveyard and that required her to…
June 26, 2019
Are eDiscovery Costs Still Recoverable after the Supreme Court’s
decision in Rimini Street, Inc. et al. v. Oracle USA, Inc.?
A circuit split has existed for some time on whether eDiscovery costs are recoverable by a prevailing party. Generally, litigants rely on 28 U.S.C. § 1920 to seek…
July 2, 2019
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a new rule in the Federal Register requiring foreign-domiciled trademark applicants, registrants, and parties to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings to be represented by an attorney who is licensed to practice law in the…
July 2, 2019
Observant readers may remember that a year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a mining case, a somewhat rare event for the Court. The case examined whether the Commonwealth of Virginia interfered with an area of law preempted by Congress under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEA) when it…
June 27, 2019
Rose Mary Knick owns 90 acres outside Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her property includes a residence, pasture and a small graveyard where the ancestors of neighbors are supposedly buried. Her Township adopted an ordinance, that broadly defined cemeteries to include the graveyard and that required her to…
June 26, 2019
Are eDiscovery Costs Still Recoverable after the Supreme Court’s
decision in Rimini Street, Inc. et al. v. Oracle USA, Inc.?
A circuit split has existed for some time on whether eDiscovery costs are recoverable by a prevailing party. Generally, litigants rely on 28 U.S.C. § 1920 to seek…
