Parallel Proceedings

New Scholarship on Anti-Suit Injunctions

Raghavendra R. Murthy, outgoing Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review, has published a note on antisuit injunctions and patent litigation: Why Can’t We Be FRANDs?: Anti-Suit Injunctions, International Comity, and International Commercial Arbitration in Standard-Essential Patent Litigation.  The note explores the rise of anti-suit injunctions related to the licensing of “standard-essential patents.”  Owners of such…

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How Do Federal Courts Treat Foreign Parallel Litigation?

The Supreme Court has not explained how federal judges should evaluate parallel litigation in foreign courts. If the same parties are litigating the same issues before a foreign tribunal, should the federal court stay its hand? Or should it proceed until one or the other of the cases results in a judgment? The traditional European…

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Recent Scholarship on Antisuit Injunctions

Giuseppe Colangelo and Valerio Torti have posted an interesting paper on antisuit injunctions in patent litigation. The paper helpfully surveys recent clusters of litigation in China, Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere. Especially notable is the growth both in antisuit injunctions against Chinese companies and in antisuit injunctions issued by Chinese courts…

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Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk

Vanderbilt Law School
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William Dodge

George Washington University Law School
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Maggie Gardner

Cornell Law School
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John F. Coyle

University of North Carolina School of Law
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Hannah Buxbaum

UC Davis School of Law
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Yanbai Andrea Wang

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Natalie Reid

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
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Beatrice Walton

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
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Rinat Gareev

Whitecliff Management
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Harold Hongju Koh

Yale Law School
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