Drug makers, biotech weigh patent suits; judge's ruling gives green light to sue universities
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An NJ federal judge ruled in College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board that states were not immune from patent infringement suits and companies which sponsored research at public universities are considering filing such suits against them. The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries may be the ones which file suit. Concern about the intellectual property rights of the private sector stems from the Mar 1996 Supreme Court ruling of Seminole Tribe v. Florida. Observers worried that Seminole's result would drive states to claim sovereign immunity in intellectual property litigation, and this indeed happened.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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Wash. chief wants change; state's top judge seeks to shrink court, other reforms
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Washington State's Chief Justice, Barbara D. Durham, advocated major changes to the state's court system in her state-of-the-judiciary address on Jan 23, 1995. Durham thinks 7 justices rather than 9 would suffice for the Supreme Court, that the chief justice should be elected by colleagues on the bench rather than giving the job to the most senior judge, and that a commission be named to think up new ways of selecting other state judges. Durham is the state's first female chief justice and the only justice to have worked at all levels of the court system.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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