Judges cannot dismiss federal False Claims Act actions based on the law's first-to-file rule on jurisdictional grounds, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday in ...

Phillip Bausk explains the US patent reforms under the America Invents Act and how the life sciences industry is adapting to them The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is changing United States ...

In a guest post to the Managing IP blog, Michele C Bosch and Anthony J Lombardi of Finnegan in Washington DC and Reston VA respectively explain why a constitutional challenge to the recently enacted ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts dismissed a former Cardinal Health executive's qui tam action accusing five physician practices of accepting kickbacks because the allegations closely mirrored those ...

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