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A law firm cannot enforce a forfeiture provision in its operating agreement that requires a departing partner to forfeit 50 percent of his equity interest if he takes clients with him; an Alexandria U.S. District Court says the forfeiture provision ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An oil and gas lease that gave the lessee certain rights to engage in alternative activities, including exploration or production of gas or oil; or storage of gas or protection of gas storage, on a 180-acre tract in West Virginia, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Contract Judge Allyson K. Duncan

It’s My Party Inc., a regional concert promoter that owns venues such as the Merriweather Post Pavilion, loses its antitrust suit against national concert promoter Live Nation Inc., owner of the Nissan Pavilion and a competitor in the relevant local ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Corporate Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

In plaintiff Verisign Inc.’s Lanham Act suit alleging defendant XYZ and its founder and CEO, Daniel Negari, made false statements during an NPR radio interview and in a YouTube video about defendant’s relative success as a domain name registrar and ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court will consider plaintiff’s late-filed opposition in her suit alleging she was wrongfully discharged by defendant hotel after she was assaulted by a coworker, but the court grants summary judgment to defendant hotel. The court will ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In Bayer Cropscience AG’s suit alleging defendant Dow Agrosciences LLC violated a 1992 patent license agreement for certain plant technology, a Norfolk U.S. District Court grants plaintiffs’ motion to affirm an arbitration award; the court finds the issue of “double ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a False Claims Act suit alleging Purdue Pharma marketed OxyContin by fraudulently inflating its analgesic properties, the public disclosure bar precludes this suit because of its relation to an earlier FCA suit filed by the husband of a plaintiff ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Contract Judge Albert Diaz

An engineer-inventor who is suing defendant Patent and Trademark Office for an alleged unreasonable delay in final agency action on 80 of his approximately 400 pending applications  has his suit dismissed as the Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiff, a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 1997, who is the subject of a USPTO disciplinary complaint and investigation alleging plaintiff had prosecuted a trademark application during a period of time when he was ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this dispute arising from a fixed-price contract between plaintiff Colonna’s Shipyard Inc. and defendant Department of the Navy for repair work on the USS Squall, the Norfolk U.S. District Court rejects plaintiff’s suit for $3.8 million for the Navy’s ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District