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Twombly/Iqbal Pleading Standard Appeals Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

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Ninth Circuit Relaxes Standard for Pleading Federal Trade Secrets Claims in California

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In California trade secrets cases, parties almost always fight about the scope of alleged trade secrets because a state statute requires identification of secrets “with reasonable particularity” before discovery. But in...more

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Disc Disease Solutions Inc. v. VGH Solutions, Inc.

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Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Reyna, Wallach, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Summary: A complaint that attaches the asserted patents, specifically...more

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Federal Circuit Finds General Allegations of Infringement Sufficient under Iqbal/Twombly

After having its complaint for patent infringement dismissed for failure to state a claim and being denied its request to file an amended complaint in the Middle District of Georgia, Disc Disease Solutions turned to the...more

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Iqbal/Twombly Pleading Standard Governs Joint Patent Infringement Claims

Addressing the pleading standard under which a joint patent infringement claim must be reviewed, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a complaint of patent infringement, finding that the...more

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