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We maintain two blogs: one in English (Sputnik Blog) and another in Russian (Opora Blog or Блог Опора).

Sputnik Blog – A blog about developments in legal protection of technology innovation and brand names.

Opora Blog - Blog of Russian Expats in America. We discuss business, legal and cultural events that impact our lives.

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Should the American Rule on Attorneys’ Fees Have a Broader Exception? A Recent Supreme Court Decision in Octane Fitness Says Resounding Yes
... fee-shifting to apply. The Federal Circuit adopted a very rigid and mechanical test for awarding attorney’s fees to the prevailing party in in Brooks Furniture Mfg., Inc. v. Dutailier Int'l, Inc., 393 F. 3d 1378 (2005). On April 29, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two important decisions. These decisions likely will loosen the rigid fee-shifting formula applied before. We will discuss one of the two cases: Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc., 572 U.S. __ (2014). In Octane ...
Волченко Максим
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 20:34:08

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