Plaintiff’s counsel often employ a range of strategic tactics to defeat diversity jurisdiction because they view federal court as an unfavorable forum. One such tactic is to challenge the amount in ...

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 ...

On Jan. 9, the Supreme Court decided MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc., U.S. Supreme Court No. 05-608, holding that a patent licensee need not breach its license agreement to file a declaratory ...

Conversion of State-Law Declaratory Judgment Actions Concerning First-Party Coverage Disputes into Federal Declaratory Judgment Actions Is Not Required Upon Removal Addressing the thorny issue of ...