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Hospitals Seen as Potential Growth Area for Litigation Financing

Insurance Journal

The litigation-financing industry could see new demand from an increase in health care lawsuits, according to Christopher Bogart, chief executive officer of litigation funder Burford Capital Ltd. “There is such enormous economic pressure in the health care industry that it …

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Patent Filings Roundup: Litigation Funding WAGs the Dog; Funded Western District Semiconductor Campaign Sees IPRs Filed

IP Watchdog

who filed five against the litigation financed entity (Fullbrite Capital Partners, LLC), and six filed by Lumenis Ltd. against BTL Healthcare Technologies A.S in an apparent litigation-free freedom-to-operate action. A big chunk of the PTAB action was against Ocean Semiconductor LLC by Applied Materials, Inc.,

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Mechanisms, Governance, and Policy Impact of SEP Determination Approaches

IP Watchdog

Similarly, litigation around SEPs has increased. Another reason why litigation may rise further is the belief that large SEP owners such as Huawei, ZTE or LG Electronics may soon sell parts of their SEP portfolios, which may likely end up in the hands of patent assertion entities (PAEs).

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Privilege Log Required of Materials Agency Withheld From Administrative Record

E-Discovery LLC

In Sana Healthcare Carrollton, LLC v. In Sana Healthcare Carrollton, LLC v. Thus, the issue presented in Sana Healthcare was “extra-record discovery” or discovery “beyond the administrative record.”” Id. Therefore, they need not be disclosed on a privilege log. of Health and Human Services , 2024 WL 2723873 (E.D. Glock, Inc.,

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Patent Filings Roundup: Third VLSI Trial on Fintiv-Denied Patents Postponed Over COVID Outbreak; Funded Single-Patent Semiconductor Campaign Files in ITC, District Courts; 225 Anonymous Platform Defendants Sued on Single Patent

IP Watchdog

My 40th birthday this week brought another litigation explosion (I assume no causation), with 120 new suits, double the average, though a spike is common at the ends of months and quarters; the new filings are dominated by filings by IP Edge, DynaIP, IP Valuation, and to a far lesser extent, Leigh Rothschild’s subsidiaries.

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JHC Welcomes Kansas City Attorney Samantha Fisher to the Firm

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

In her health and hospital law practice, Samantha assists individuals and organizations with regulatory compliance, physician contracts, non-competition agreements and disputes, medical staff relations, peer review and risk management, defense of medical malpractice claims, and other civil litigation.

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Patent Filings Roundup: Magentar Launches Tenth and Eleventh Campaign; Joao Entity Hits State Healthcare; Board Terminates Eight Petitions Pre-Institution Over Patent Owner Objections

IP Watchdog

A normal week at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and a heavy week in the district courts saw 100 new patent complaints filed and 30 petitions before the Board; there were 79 district court terminations as well, as cases settled quickly and a number of withdrawals or refilings continue in and out of the Western District of Texas.