Now that the nCoV coronavirus is a worldwide epidemic, the international community will likely be forced again to address the issues created by intellectual property ownership of potential vaccines and symptom treatments. The last two worldwide epidemics – H1N1 and Zika – exposed many problems and fewer solutions to the question of how to handle proprietary rights and research. The rush to apply existing drugs to treat symptoms of nCoV recalls the TamiFlu spike in the H1N1 epidemic, which involved the U.S. directly purchasing doses, resulting in a significant...

By Natalie Gordon, M.A., DOAR analyst

Recently, we have heard stories in the media being described as instances of “restorative justice.” But sometimes an alleged example of restorative justice will not encompass all the core principles of restorative justice, or will conflict with the principles of our criminal justice system. Some recent examples may help illustrate what restorative justice is — and is not.

In October, President Donald Trump arranged a meeting at the White House for the family of Harry Dunn, a British teenager killed in...

Congratulations to our clients Michael Schachter, Randall Jackson, Casey Donnelly, Philip DiSanto, and the rest of the trial team at Willkie Farr & Gallagher on their unprecedented victory on behalf of Privinvest Group executive Jean Boustani.  Following a six week trial before Judge William Kuntz in the Eastern District of New York, the jury...

By: Moiz Khan, Consulting Expert & Michael Connelly, Director of IP Litigation

Over the past several years, a growing trend in the use of surgical robotics has been seen in several different areas of surgery, including pediatric, gynecologic, and cardiothoracic surgery, to name a few. The benefits include improved surgical precision, reliability and reproducibility, and improved surgeon dexterity. With the advancement of computational power, robotics and its technologies have been on the rise. Mathematically intensive algorithms can be calculated in real-time, allowing machines to...