On Dec. 19, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took on the confusing question of declaratory judgments under the federal Superfund statute, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation ...

After receiving notice of an allegation of infringement from a trade mark owner, the receiving party is often put in the unenviable position of having to make a unilateral determination to either ...

In the absence of regulation governing issues surrounding declaratory judgments for non-infringement, judgments of prior cases must be used as a guide. Qing Ge of Liu Shen & Associates in Beijing ...

Collateral estoppel, or issue preclusion, the Court of Appeals found, "precludes a party from relitigating in a subsequent action or proceeding an issue clearly raised in a prior action or proceeding ...

Considers Standard Insurances v. IRS where a taxpayer sought declaratory and injunctive relief in the U.S. District Court ...

Biotech giants BioNTech and Pfizer Monday filed a complaint for declaratory judgment of noninfringement in the US District Court of Massachusetts. The companies seek to quell claims by CureVac of ...

In a paperless order issued on May 26, Judge Deborah Boardman asked lawyers for the state of Maryland and the Association of American Publishers to submit proposed language for a declaratory judgment ...

Attorney General Douglas Moylan has thrown another issue into the governor's attempt to remand a declaratory judgment request ...