In January 2018, six amendments were made to the New Jersey Business Corporation Act. One authorizes New Jersey corporations to adopt what is often referred to as a forum selection by-law. Delaware ...

In light of recent Federal Circuit case law, parties involved in licensing, settlement, or confidential business discussions involving patents should carefully consider the impact a forum selection ...

In their Commercial Division Update column, George Bundy Smith and Thomas J. Hall discuss the grounds under which non-parties to a contract may enforce or be bound by a forum selection clause, and ...

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has rejected a patent owner’s argument that a forum selection clause found in a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) barred the Board from instituting a petition for inter ...

(Reuters) - In an important development for companies worried about state-court class actions over their IPOs, a California intermediate appellate court has upheld a corporate charter provision ...

Clients often ask whether all those “boilerplate” clauses at the end of a commercial contract are really necessary, and if so, why can’t they just be copied and pasted from earlier agreements. This ...

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“The connection between the two—the inter partes review proceedings and the NDA—is too tenuous for the inter partes review proceedings to be precluded by the forum selection clause in the NDA, which ...

New Hampshire businesses execute contracts every day. These contracts are often littered with boilerplate provisions that businesses overlook or do not understand. In these situations, many businesses ...

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WASHINGTON (CN) – The Supreme Court resolved a misunderstanding Tuesday about how to adjudicate a motion to transfer in a case involving a forum­-selection clause. The case involves a subcontract ...