Tag:The U.S. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court to Clarify Common Law Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 guaranteed equal rights for same-sex couples to get married, but can treating same-sex couples exactly equal in the context...
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FCA Whistleblower Gets Favorable Supreme Court Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that whistleblowers have as much time to bring False Claim Act suits as the government would if...
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SCOTUS: Wording Change Does Not Amount to Legal Change in Patent Case

The U.S. Supreme Court took less than two months to decide a nuanced patent case about whether the America Invents Act changed existing law...
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USPTO Clarifies Patentability of ‘Abstract Ideas’

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is giving its patent examiners new marching orders for determining whether certain patent applications that contain abstract ideas...
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