by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Unilateral Price Policies in the Contact Lens Industry: Can Manufacturers Be Forced to Sell to Every Retailer? It is a cardinal rule of antitrust that – absent very limited exceptions – parties can do business, or refuse to do business, with whomever they choose. The...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Businesses have long turned to arbitration as a potentially more efficient and cheaper option for resolving disputes. Yet, commercial arbitrations don’t always turn out that way. As arbitration has “matured,” it has evolved to look a lot like...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently released a study examining the prevalence, perception and effects of arbitration clauses in contracts for consumer financial products. Although the study purports to be only “empirical, not...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Patent exhaustion, or “the first sale doctrine,” requires that the initial authorized sale of a patented item by a patent owner or licensee, terminates their ability to subsequently use their patent rights against that item. Quanta v. LG Electronics, Inc.,...
