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A New Two-Step Dance: Supreme Court Decision Complicates Relief for Government Grant and Contract Terminations

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Organizations challenging an agency’s termination of a grant or government contract based on an allegedly illegal government policy need to master a two-step dance, according to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. Under the...more

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Ericsson Tests Scope of the PTAB’s Sovereign Immunity Holding

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On January 25, 2017, a panel of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) held that “Eleventh Amendment Immunity bars the institution of an inter partes review against an unconsenting state that has not waived sovereign...more

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State Universities Rejoice: PTAB Recognizes Sovereign Immunity Defense

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In Covidien LP v. University of Florida Research Foundation Inc., the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) upheld a defense of sovereign immunity asserted by the University of Florida Research Foundation (the...more

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