Indeed, the US litigation, sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union and Public Patent Foundation [ 15], has become by far the most conspicuous gene patent case in history.
The House is expected to vote this week on the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act, sponsored by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va)., who chairs the House Judiciary Committee.
He listed the sponsor and the copy for each ad read by Sterling and Waldman, including: "Tonight's umpire alignment sponsored by Levy, Phillips and Konigsberg, a leader in asbestos litigation.
As his first official act, Mr. Alcott, a senior litigation partner with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, sponsored the creation of a special program to encourage the members to perform at least 50 hours of free work for the poor each year.
Google has lost the most recent round of litigation over alleged abuse of sponsored search, the sale of keywords based on corporate trademarks, and misdirection.
Other tables were sponsored by law firms involved in the litigation.
I remember at least two occasions where judges on judicial panels where I also served took positions that they had heard advocated at seminars sponsored by groups with particular interest in the litigation.
"This is a huge commitment," said Utah representative Kay Christofferson, a Republican who sponsored legislation approved last Thursday creating a so-called "public lands litigation account" through which the state is beginning to finance a possible lawsuit.
The judge's inaction is "effectively suspending the litigation," the lawyers wrote, "and immunizing those alleged to have sponsored the attacks from having to answer for their conduct in this nation's courts".
Many articles, published primarily in toxicology journals, are termed "product defense" science articles and are frequently sponsored by asbestos interests such as the defendants in personal injury asbestos litigation in the United States (Axelson et al. 2003; Michaels 2008).
