Underwood Law reports partition law helps resolve ownership disputes in business partnerships by facilitating property ...

In Gorbatschow Wodka KG v John Distilleries Limited, the Bombay High Court has restrained defendant John Distilleries Limited from using a bottle of a particular shape to sell its vodka, finding that ...

Yesterday's post discussed the Court of Appeal's holding in Ramirez v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., 2021 Cal. App. LEXIS 558, that a beneficial owner has no right to inspect corporate records under ...

United States trade mark law generally provides that a registered mark is considered abandoned if its use has been discontinued for a specified period with intent not to resume such use. Specifically, ...

Despite protestations from the insurance industry to the contrary, common law bad faith damages can be pursued in the lawsuit seeking extra-contractual damages from insurers under policies of ...

In an opinion filed on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit held that the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) does not preempt common law tort claims grounded in state law ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court declined to adopt an exception to the "American Rule" for common-law right-of-access claims to public records and stated that the imposition of fee-shifting in this ...

A court in Virginia has said that a domainer has common law rights in domains that appear to be mis-spellings of well-known marks The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that ...

Author’s Note: a longer alternative version of this article with footnotes and instructions for use as an education module is available here. An important question follows. Does the common law’s ...