Were you sold a flare root injection regimen for a treasured oak or multiple oaks on your property to prevent oak wilt disease, only to have your tree die from oak wilt notwithstanding the hundreds of dollars (or more) spent on flare root injection? One label on branded propiconazole says, “Preventive application is more effective than therapeutic treatment.” Some companies that “administer” the flare root injections d… Continue reading →
…njection regimen for a treasured oak or multiple oaks on your property to prevent oak wilt disease, only to have your tree die from oak wilt notwithstanding the hundreds of dollars (or more) spent on flare root injection? One label on branded propiconazole says, “Preventive application is more effective than therapeutic treatment.” Some companies that “administer” the flare root injections do so with a guaranty or warran… Continue reading →
…rm or illness? As a first line of defense, pharmaceuticals and device manufacturers seek protection under federal regulation but there are ways for such manufacturers to game that system (by promoting, for example, “off label” uses or, theoretically, by duping federal regulators by other means (i.e., concealing or distorting data as to efficacy or side effects)). So the FDA may afford medical companies some protection, but that protec… Continue reading →
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…Original post (September 7, 2010): In lengthy, messy litigation previously covered by Minnesota Litigator (here), litigants in a hard-fought multi-forum commercial dispute (centering around the sale of a business and related trademark rights) went toe-to-toe in the negotiation of a consent order with regard to who had what rights and, at least from a distance, one party appears to have sought to narrow the rights that it gave the counter-party i… Continue reading →
… The list of Minnesota legal blogs, in the mean time, has been growing. Large Minnesota firms have been moving into blogging. Dorsey & Whitney, LLP has several blogs. Winthrop & Weinstine’s Duets Blog, focusing on trademark law, is one of the older Twin Cities large firm blogs. The Fredrikson & Byron firm seems to be testing the waters (“the other Twin Cities F&B firm,” Faegre & Benson, also). Leonard Street & Deinar… Continue reading →
Jennifer Eisenbarth, of Shakopee, Minnesota lost a whole lot of weight, was a participant in the hit show, The Biggest Loser, and now sues certain weight-loss firms that, she alleges through her lawyers at M&G, “are wrongfully capitalizing on Plaintiff’s reputation and intellectual property rights to lure consumers into ordering their Infringing Products on the false premise that they have been utilized or recommended b… Continue reading →
