On November 19, 2025, the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Eight, issued a published decision in Brown v. Dave ...

This morning the Supreme Court reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s decision in Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc., holding that Lucky Brand is not ...

In Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc., the United States Supreme Court recently considered for the first time whether and the extent to which it should recognize “defense ...

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SimpleAir, Inc. v. Google LLC, No. 2016-2738, 2018 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 12, 2018) (Before Lourie, Reyna, and Chen, J.) (Opinion for the court, Lourie, J.) The Federal Circuit vacated a district court order ...

Derivative claims belong to the corporation, which is why a stockholder must make a demand on the company's board or adequately allege demand futility to pursue derivative claims on the company's ...

Next week the justices will hear oral argument in Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashion Group, Inc., a trademark dispute over whether federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from ...

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Identity of issue, and Full and fair opportunity to contest the issue. Important to the attorney defending a malpractice claim, the argument that it is unfair to apply an earlier judgment in a ...

Medicare Part A and Part B are referred to as Traditional Medicare, and services are billed primarily on a “fee-for-service” basis. For decades, the Medicare program has required providers who wished ...

The US Supreme Court last month held that TTAB litigants are not entitled to a second bite at the apple in subsequent Federal Court infringement litigation – unless it is a materially different apple.

In this edition of their New York Court of Appeals Roundup, Linton Mann III and William T. Russell Jr. discuss 'Simmons v. Trans Express,' where the court clarified the extent to which a small claims ...