Publications

Wiggin and Dana attorneys Benjamin Daniels and Catherine Baiocchi have written an article for the National Law Review. Entitled “Academic Freedom: Whose right is it anyway?” the article explores the competing rights to academic freedom and how courts have struggled to balance the college’s and individual faculty member’s rights. While balancing the tension between these […]

In an important development for colleges and universities throughout the United States, a federal district court judge on February 1, 2018 certified a class of medical school faculty members in an antitrust suit against Duke University and the University of North Carolina. The class action suit alleges that Duke and UNC had an agreement not […]

U.S. patent laws have undergone many changes in recent years, both through Congress and the courts. This article summarizes recent developments relating to judicial decisions, legislative initiatives, and patent office policy, and provides some practical advice relating to administration of intellectual property. As illustrated by the latest judicial decisions, the law makes no distinctions between […]