"Companies found that software patents were very easy to get in very broad terms," said Matthew Powers, a managing partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a law firm whose 20 or so software industry clients have all been involved in patent litigation in the last year.
At the domestic level, there has been a significant upsurge in right to health litigation over the last twenty years, especially in middle-income countries like Colombia, Brazil and Costa Rica [ 49, 50].
Businesses complain that fear of being sued clogs up the workplace with silly rules and paperwork.The ultimate aim of proposals outlined on March 29th, says Ken Clarke, the justice secretary, is to make litigation the last resort in civil disputes, not the first.
The court ruled in the governor's favor in the last round of litigation, but AFSCME is working to litigate again to try to authorize funding so these prisons can stay open.
"We are concerned about the number of litigations and investigations which have mounted in the last few years," said Hans-Christoph Hirt, global head of corporate engagement at Hermes Equity Ownership Services, a unit of Hermes Fund Managers that represents several large Deutsche Bank shareholders.
The elementary and middle schools included in the litigation had a 16 percent proficiency rate in English in the last school year, while the citywide average was 42 percent.
Nothing will contribute more to that than an extended re-litigation of the last eight years.
"We're aggressively defending [against] the litigation, and we're pleased with the direction it has been going in the last several months," says William Ruane, Wyeth's associate general counsel.
In the last term, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce participated in more cases than in any other term in its 33-year history, Robin S. Conrad, executive director of the chamber's litigation unit, said at a news briefing last month.
