He joked that if there is a next time he would negotiate for the government to pay any future litigation costs that arise from such an acquisition.
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As Justin Patten, an employment mediator in London reported recently, a British appellate court Justice recently dissented from his fellows in a 2-1 equal pay appeal (the women lost), bemoaning the nearly epidemic, interminable litigation equal pay laws had set in motion.
Note: the NWFund cannot be used to pay fines or other litigation costs, those come from tax-payer dollars, not rate-payers.
Haggling over the sums aside, the big pots of money that companies and their insurers pay out to settle litigation cause both direct and indirect losses.
Given that Union Carbide settled with his parents, then refused to settle in this case, a reasonable person might conclude the judge came to the matter with some baggage regarding what companies might be expected to pay a plaintiff in such litigation.
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But as IV itself points out in this latest lawsuit, big tech companies are often not inclined to pay patent royalties unless the threat of litigation is robust.
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Simply put, a brand-name drugmaker agrees to pay a settlement to a generic rival in exchange for ending patent litigation and launching a copycat medicine at a future date.
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The result, if the history of unions is a guide, will be decades of litigation and debate over the propriety of forcing people to pay for speech to which they object.
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Meanwhile, the NFLPA and most NFL member clubs are sitting on the sidelines, fingers crossed, hoping that they do not get dragged into litigation that could conclude with the NFL being ordered to pay tobacco-like damages to the plaintiffs.
The costs of patent litigation roll down-market: the pace of innovation slows and consumers pay more for less.
Artists in litigation with companies that felt they could lift songs and not have to pay the piper is not really new.
That's where LFL's new owners come in, getting into the growing market of litigation funding - that is, raising risk capital with the prospect of a big share of eventual pay-outs.
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