1. Zhang Guangliang, Tao Jun, Peng Wenyi, Chen Yong, and S. Sam Li have published a very interesting article titled A Study on the Improvement of Remedies for Patent Infringement
in China Patents & Trademarks No. 4, 2018, pp. 83-91. The authors review the general state of the law regarding permanent injunctions (which are normally granted [...]
Last week, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi completed an impressive campaign of negotiations to be elected speaker of the House of Representatives. This post provides
an account of this campaign, synthesized from news accounts listed at the end. One of the articles described Ms. [...]
The conclusions of the EC-HCCH Joint Conference on the Cross-border Protection of Vulnerable Adults are now available here. See also related post by Pietro Franzina here.
The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) is seeking to fill a Diplomat Lawyer (Secretary) position. The deadline for applications is
31 December 2018 (12.00 a.m. CET). For more information, click here. [...]
1. Jeremy Taylor, Sarah Guske, and Wayne Stacy recently published an article on Law360 titled The New Reality of Patent Trials Post-Halo. According to the authors, in the
wake of the Supreme Court's 2016 Halo decision "juries now find infringement much more often when willfulness is tried to the jury," and there is "a strong correlation [...]
1. On the IAM Blog, Jill Ge recently published a post titled How a Chinese Court Would Have Decided the Unwired Planet Appeal. Ms. Ge concludes that (1) as in Unwired Planet,
"it is probable that Chinese courts can adjudicate a global FRAND licence"; (2) unlike Unwired Planet, Chinese courts would probably adopt the hard-edged non-discrimination [...]
Approximately eight years ago, the European Chapter of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (“IAFL”) established a writing award for young family lawyers to be awarded
on an annual basis. The award aims to promote research and excellence among young family lawyers and to increase awareness among other legal professionals of the [...]
Written by Markus Lieberknecht, Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law (Heidelberg) Quite a literal “conflict of laws” has recently
arisen when the EU reactivated its Blocking Statute in an attempt to deflect the effects of U.S. [...]
From FOIs Jean Sternlight and Lydia Nussbaum of UNLV: The first West Coast Dispute Resolution Conversation was held in Las Vegas on December 7 & 8, 2018 at UNLV’s Boyd School
of Law and the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution. The inspiration for the Conversation grew out of the 2018 ABA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Conference [...]
By Georgia Antonopoulou, Erlis Themeli, and Xandra Kramer, Erasmus University Rotterdam (PhD candidate, postdoc researcher, and PI ERC consolidator project Building EU Civil
Justice) [...]
