Intellectual Property Law

Third Circuit Holds Spanish-Speaking Employee Bound by Arbitration Agreement Written in English
The Third Circuit has just held that an employee speaking only Spanish is bound by an arbitration clause in an employment agreement written in English. The trial court had held that the arbitration agreement was unenforceable because the employee had...

Sixth Circuit: Some claims relating to license agreement with arbitration clause not arbitrable
In a recent decision, the Sixth Circuit considered the scope a mandatory arbitration clause in a software license agreement, and specifically whether the clause mandated arbitration of certain copyright infringement and other claims arguably related to the agreement...

The Devil's in the Details When It Comes to Michigan Arbitration Agreements
Arbitration agreements are becoming more and more common in a wide variety of Michigan contracts. The reason why arbitration is becoming so popular is that it is seen as generally being a faster, cheaper and less disruptive method for resolving business disputes than traditional litigation in the courts...

Division of Marital Property Makes Divorced Wife Bound By Ex-Husband's Shareholder Agreement
While the following case is largely fact-specific, it is an interesting blending of two contracts to find the result that a non-signatory is bound by an arbitration provision. In The Steritech Group, Inc...

Narrow Arbitration Clause Precludes Arbitration of Dispute
FCI Group v. City of New York, ___A.D. 3d____(1st Dep't. July 22, 2008), is an interesting decision. Arbitration was sought over a contruction contract dispute. The court ultimately held that the dispute was not arbitrable because the arbitration clause was...

Lawyer Sued for Malpractice-type Theories Can't Invoke the Arbitration Clause He Wrote
The Fourth DCA denied arbitration in a case because the parties to the suit had not agreed to arbitrate. This was not, however, the typical scenarios such as questioning the breadth of the agreement nor whether the parties were signatories...

Prenuptial Agreements
Make an Airtight Prenuptial Agreement

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Uniform Pre-marital Agreement Act
Standard Prenuptial Law

Compound License
Palatin Technologies pays Competitive Technologies $800,000 agreement dispute settlement.

Homeward Bound Services
$249,000 settlement in elder care fraud lawsuit.

Homeward Bound
To Pay $8.5 Million Settlement

Loan Agreement
Vernalis to pay Endo Pharmaceuticals $7 million settlement.

Merger Agreement Rejected
Finish Line and Genesco reach $175 million settlement in merger dispute.