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Andrews Kurth LLP Houston, TX Document Search Results (31) Show: results per page Sort by:  | SEC Exempts “Dribble Out” Programs and Certain Secondary Sales from Large Trader Reporting Rule
William J. Cooper, Gislar R. Donnenberg, Eric Markus, George J. Vlahakos; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2012, previously published on May 7, 2012 In response to an exemption request submitted by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently granted exemptions from the definition of “transactions” in its large trader reporting rule for certain securities...
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Alan Bickerstaff, William J. Cooper, Jeff C. Dodd, Edward (Ted) A. Gilman; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 23, 2012, previously published on April 18, 2012 On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) into law. Previously, both houses of Congress overwhelmingly passed the JOBS Act. While certain provisions of the JOBS Act require the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to conduct rulemaking before...
| | Patent-Eligible Subject Matter in Business Method Patents
Jeff C. Dodd, Gregory L. Porter; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 22, 2012 While noting that Section 101 of the Patent Act broadly made various inventions and discoveries eligible for patents, the Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos, 130 S. Ct. 3218 (2010) also noted that its precedents provided "three specific exceptions to § 101's broad patent-eligibility...
| | A Sharply Divided En Banc Federal Circuit Decision Limits Intervening Rights To Claims Textually Modified in Reexamination
Jeff C. Dodd, Gregory L. Porter, Sean S. Wooden; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 22, 2012, previously published on March 21, 2012 The doctrine of intervening rights protects third parties from some infringement claims based on changes to the scope of a patent made through post-patent issuance processes (including in re-issue and re-examination proceedings). In very general terms, a third party who makes, uses, and/or sells...
| | Recent SEC Staff Comments Challenge Reporting of Equity Compensation
Melinda Held Brunger, Christopher R. Fenelon, Muriel C. McFarling, Dudley W. Murrey; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 13, 2012, previously published on March 7, 2012 Recent correspondence between the staff (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance and Verizon Communications Inc. (Verizon) emphasizes the difficulties inherent in reporting executive compensation in the summary compensation table (SCT). In the...
| | The Essentials of E-Discovery (Top Five)
Kelly S. Sandill, M. Katherine Strahan, Laura Trenaman; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 16, 2012, previously published on February 15, 2012 A company’s failure to deal appropriately with electronic discover—innocently or not—can lead to significant sanctions and even adverse judgments in a lawsuit. For example, courts have ordered offending companies to pay the other side’s (sometimes sizable) legal fees...
| | Seventh Court of Appeals Further Strengthens Rights of Secured Lenders in Chapter 11 Cases
David A. Zdunkewicz; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 31, 2012, previously published on January 30, 2012 On January 19, 2012, the Seventh Circuit in In re River East Plaza, LLC, (No. 11-3263), held in favor of a secured lender further strengthening the rights of secured creditors in bankruptcy cases.
| | The Federal Circuit Agrees to Consider En Banc Whether Intervening Rights Can Apply To Independent Claims Not Amended During Reexamination
Gregory L. Porter; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 24, 2012, previously published on January 23, 2012 In September 2011, I wrote about how the Federal Circuit overturned a patentee’s $29.4 million infringement verdict and held that cancelling dependent claims in a reexamination without changing the language of the independent claims narrowed the claim scope due to intervening rights. See our...
| | Taiwan IP Update
Wei Wei Jeang; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 23, 2012, previously published on January 2012 Bemoaning the state of patent litigation involving Taiwan’s technology companies, TSMC’s Dr. Richard Thurston remarked in 2008 that “Taiwan is under siege.” After years of seemingly escalating litigation targeting Taiwanese companies, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic...
| | Lessons from the Facebook Privacy Fiasco
Dean W. Harvey; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 23, 2012, previously published on January 2012 Facebook is a wildly popular social media site which allows users to share information about themselves, send messages to friends, play games and join common interest groups. It is the most visited site in the U.S., with over 100 million active U.S. users and hundreds of millions of active users...
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