United States federal and state laws allow foreign litigants to seek an order from a U.S. court requiring a person within the court’s jurisdiction to provide testimony or produce documents for use in a non-U.S. proceeding. These procedures can be used to obtain evidence even where the foreign tribunal has no jurisdiction over the party from whom the evidence is sought.
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Bilski v. Kappos, the end of the ‘Machine or Transformation Test’?
By King and Wood on
Posted in Intellectual Property
Last month, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the closely followed case of Bilski v. Kappos, 08-964. The case concerns a patent application for hedging risk in commodities trading. Both the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the claims.
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