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By Rachel Sachs Yesterday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a unanimous en banc ruling in Akamai v. Limelight, altering the reach of patent liability for induced infringement of a method claim…
By Rachel Sachs This morning, the House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Cures Act by a vote of 344-77, achieving a truly bipartisan result in a difficult political environment. (I’ve blogged about the Act…
By Rachel Sachs Academic Fellow Rachel Sachs has a new piece up at the Health Affairs Blog discussing the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell. From the piece: Chief Justice Roberts has once again saved a core provision…
By Rachel Sachs [Originally published on The Conversation]. The core of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has now survived its second trip to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in King…
By Rachel Sachs [Originally published on The Conversation]. In March, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v Burwell, a case that could broadly impact the functioning of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The central question in King…
By Rachel Sachs On Friday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment of invalidity of several claims in Sequenom’s diagnostic method patent on the grounds that they were not…
By Rachel Sachs On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc., in which it held that a defendant’s belief that a patent is invalid is not a…
By Rachel Sachs Earlier today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released the most recent draft of the 21st Century Cures Act, in time for it to be marked up by the Health Subcommittee tomorrow.…
By Rachel Sachs Yesterday, a new discussion draft of the 21st Century Cures Act was released, just in time for today’s hearing on the draft before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. At just 200…
Academic Fellow Rachel Sachs was quoted today in the SCOTUSblog: Wednesday’s oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the challenge to the availability of tax subsidies for individuals who purchase their health insurance on a marketplace created…
