By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Pfizer Inc., et al.v. Mylan Inc. et al. 1:10-cv-06463; filed August 20, 2010 in the Southern District of New York • Plaintiffs: Pfizer Inc.; Pfizer Products Inc.; C.P. Pharmaceuticals ...

Rapid advances in technology are nothing new; what is new in recent decades is rapid advances in the kinds of technology that require intellectual skills. This has increased the returns to people who have high IQs and good technical education. In addition, fulfilling Max Weber’s prediction that mo ...

In an April 29, 2010 complaint against JG Wentworth posted on complaintsboard.com, a South Addiosn , Maine woman descirbes the horror show that a woman with closed head injury allegedly suffered suffered at the hands of JG Wentworth in a chilling warning to state and federal governmental regulators. ...

Paul Allen made his bundle off Microsoft as a co-founder. He then spent decades frittering money on creating tech companies that yielded little but patents. That is no small success. As any entrepreneur (or venture capitalist) can tell you, commercialization of new technology is a gauntlet whic ...

This post is part 3 of a three part series by Robert Walsh, the founder of Samsara Biopharma Consulting, and his colleagues, Jennie Shi, Wendy Zheng, and Zhou Tong. It is a follow up to "The Basics on China Pharma" and "The Basics On China Pharma, Part 2: Getting Into China The Slow Hard Way." Here ...

[JURIST] Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran [GlobaLex backgrounder] on Saturday concluded the one-day trial of Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the 2009 presidential election [JURIST news archive]. During the Tehran trial, conducted by head judge Pyrbasy, Ahari faced char ...

When Courts and Congress Don’t Say What They Mean: Initial Reactions to Morrison v. National Australia Bank and to the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Provisions of the Dodd-Frank, by Richard W. Painter, University of Minnesota Law School; Douglas Dunham, Skadden, Arps, Slate,...

[This is the headline over a report by Marcello Mega on page 44 of today's Scottish edition of The Mail on Sunday. The story does not (as yet) appear on the newspaper's website. The following excerpts have accordingly been typed out by me.]The Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is to publis ...

Remember when the New York Times expressed its puzzlement that the prison population was increasing despite the drop in crime? I do. As I observed at the time: This is like saying “Joe Blow has been continuing to exercise despite the fact that he has been getting in much better shape.” Fareed Zakari ...

Driver of an unregistered and uninsured vehicle was not entitled to indemnity for damages to vehicle even though the other driver was found to be 100% at fault. Kotello v. West, [2010] M.J. No. 154, May 4, 2010, Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench, C. Suche J.This action arose out of a motor vehicle co ...