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Eds: This story was supplied by https://theconversation.com for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. https://theconversation.com/profiles/archana-venkatesan-1505285, https://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-california-davis-1312 (THE CONVERSATION) Ever since Vice President Kamala Harris became a [...]

Byline: supriya venkatesan In Bergenfield, there isn't a central downtown. Instead, there is one long street, Washington Avenue, that is populated with ethnically diverse stores that cater to Filipinos, Latinos, [...]

Byline: Supriya Venkatesan At 19, I enlisted in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Iraq. I spent 15 months there -- eight at the U.S. Embassy, where I supported [...]

Johnstech Int. Corp. v. JF Microtechnology SDN BHD, Case No. 14-cv-02864-JD (Judge James Donato) Buddha said, 'To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is [...]

Order Denying Gilead's Motion for Summary Judgment and Granting Merck's Motion for Summary Judgment, Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Merck & Co., Inc. et al., Case No. 5:13-cv-04057 (Judge Beth Freeman) [...]

Asetek Danmark A/S v CMI USA, Inc., Case No. 13-cv-00457 (JST) (Tigar, J) Patent litigation can be an expensive process for a defendant. That is why it is tempting for [...]

While they say that a grand jury could 'indict a ham sandwich,' the First Circuit recently reminded chefs that you can't copyright a chicken sandwich. Specifically, a former employee of [...]

Adaptix v. ZTE Corporation, et al. (Magistrate Grewal) Magistrate Grewal recently issued two orders in related cases between plaintiff Adaptix and various defendants. In the first order, he denied plaintiff's [...]

Order on Motions in Limine, Finjan, Inc. v. Blue Coat Systems, Inc., Case No. 13-cv-03999 (Judge Beth Freeman) Litigators know that, at trial, what you're not allowed to say can [...]

Order Granting Motion to Stay, Security People, Inc. v. Ojmar US, LLC, 14-cv-04968 (Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr.) A recent opinion analyzes what relief, if any, a patentee is entitled to [...]

The paradigmatic trade secret is something that is obviously technical, such as source code or the formula for Coke. Though trade secrets protection is not limited to technical trade secrets, [...]

Order Directing Entry of Partial Judgment Under FRCP 54(b), Largan Precision Co., Ltd., v. Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd., Case No. 13-cv-02502-JD (Judge James Donato) In a recent order directing [...]

March 2015-like January and February-saw decisions on a variety of fronts from ND Cal judges. ND Cal judges demonstrated their willingness to apply the Supreme Court's decisions in Nautilus and [...]

We have written before about business collaborations gone sour that lead to trade secret misappropriation lawsuits. In a recent example, The Weather Channel convinced a court to wash away claims [...]

Order Denying Motion to Dismiss. iLife Technologies Inc. v. AliphCom, Case No. 14-cv-03345-WHO Pleading inequitable conduct--fraud on the Patent Office (PTO) by withholding or misrepresenting material information--can be a tricky [...]

Order Granting Motion to Exclude Expert Opinions and Testimony, Open Text S.A. v. Box, Inc. et al., Case No. 13-cv-04910 (Judge Jon Tigar) There are many permissible ways for an [...]

As the year comes to a close, it seems appropriate to take a look back at Northern District events that may have not received as much coverage as they should [...]

Software patents are dropping like flies. Last week, we reported the first decision in the Northern District to invalidate a software patent under 35 U.S.C. Section 101 in the wake [...]

How do two companies end up liable for nearly $50 million in damages relating to confidential, trade secret materials? Like many romances gone awry, this tale arose from actions taken [...]

Enplas Display Device Corp. et al. v. Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Case No. 13-5038 (Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins) Depositions in patent cases are expensive, particularly when they take place outside [...]

Motion to Dismiss Affirmative Defenses granted, Blackberry Limited v. Typo Products LLC, Case No. 3:14-cv-00023-WHO (J. Orrick). In 2007, the Supreme Court's Bell Atlantic v. Twombly opinion altered the Rule [...]

France Telecom S.A. v. Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Case No. 12-cv-04967-WHO (Judge William Orrick) Section 101 motions have become increasingly popular, particularly in the cases running up and through the Supreme [...]

ASUS Computer Int'l v. Round Rock Research, LLC, 12-cv-02099 (Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins) On Tuesday, Magistrate Judge Cousins struck portions of both DJ plaintiff / patent defendant ASUS, and DJ [...]

Open Text, S.A., v. Box, Inc. and Carahsoft Technology Corporation, Case No. 5:13-cv-04910 (Judge Edward Davila) Judge Davila last week denied Plaintiff Open Text's request for preliminary injunction against Defendant [...]

On March 14, 2014, a Texas jury acquitted former Texas Instruments ('TI') employee Ellen Chen Yeh on all counts brought against her arising from her admitted downloading of Texas Instruments [...]

Perfect Surgical Techniques, Inc. v. Olympus America, Inc. et al., Case No. 12-5967 (Judge Hamilton) Not every hour spent on successful motion practice is treated equally (or at all) in [...]

On March 19, 2014, the Northern District Historical Society honored panelists and guests that began their legal practice in the 1940's and 50's in a program called 'Then and Now: [...]

Internal Testing Activities Alone Can Be The Basis Of A Patent Jury Trial, Interwoven, Inc. v. Vertical Computer Systems, Case No. 10-4645 (Judge Seeborg) Asserting patented method claims against a [...]

The Northern District has had a very good record of putting on substantive programming through its Practice Program. Yesterday's patent practice event, featuring Judges Jeremy Fogel and Susan Illston from [...]

The U.S. Department of Defense issued final rulemaking on November 18, 2013 that will require DOD contractors to protect from attack confidential technical information on their computer systems, and to [...]

The article discusses that Prince Charles has taken over as King Charles at a time when the world is witnessing great political uncertainty, visible effects of climate change, rising food and energy prices, and the most immediate and pressing global challenge of times.

Weissman, D.; Rabin, R.L.; Arthos, J.; Rubbert, A.; Dybul, M.; Swofford, R.; Venkatesan, S.; Farber, J.M.; Fauci, A.S. "Macrophage-Tropic HIV and SIV Envelope Proteins Induce a Signal Through the CCR5 [...]

The author focuses on the business opportunities in India as of 2013. He says that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. identified plenty of opportunity in India and invested massively in its brand and distribution. He mentions that companies have to develop resilience to succeed in any emerging market. He also mentions that India has huge potential and is one of the world's top five economies in terms of purchasing parity.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being a soldier on topics including camping out on mountaintops at demilitarized zone in South Korea, adapting civilian life through meditation and dealing with military personnel have post-traumatic stress disorder.

The article focuses the trade relationship between the U.S. and India.

Braving a light rain, a record-breaking 33,996 people gathered at Beijng's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium early on Saturday for a graceful, six-minute tai chi demonstration as the city administration kicked off a 10-year 'get fit' campaign to encourage citizens to, among other things, brush their teeth right. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When brides and grooms in South Korea say they want a 'small wedding', it doesn't mean they'll have an intimate ceremony attended only by a small circle of family and friends. It means they are planning to shrink themselves - in their photoshopped wedding pictures. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On Friday, the 13th round of border talks between India and China got under way in New Delhi. (Friday the 13th? Now, there's a propitious sign!) As always, given the secrecy surrounding the talks, not much is known about how they are proceeding, and whether any progress is being made. But strikingly, these talks are being held in an atmosphere of overheated 'war' rhetoric - from India as well as from China. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An outspoken Communist Party official in China has confirmed long-held suspicions that GDP data was being massaged and exaggerated by regional party leaders to show higher economic growth, in the process "squandering social resources." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With one eye focused worriedly on the horizon for monsoon clouds that have so far played truant, Indian economy watchers are preparing to pull out their calculators and revise GDP projections downwards -- in case the monsoon turns deficient or, worse, signals a drought. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Chinese real estate company that illegally used images of Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Nobel Prize-winning Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee in promotional advertisements has been told to pull down the billboards. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Chinese real estate company that illegally used images of the iconic Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Nobel Prize-winning Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee in promotional advertisements has been told to pull down the billboards. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

George Bernard Shaw once famously said that if all economists were laid end to end, they would never reach a conclusion. That statement, said half in jest, reflects a widely held view on the general incapacity of practitioners of the dismal science to arrive at unanimity or even a broad consensus of opinions. Indicatively, for every economist who believes that the current recovery in investor sentiments in stock markets around the world represents that the worst of the financial meltdown and the global recession is over, there is another who holds - with equal vehemence - that this is irrational exuberance, and that the recession still has some way to go. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chinese concerns about India's defence programme, which again manifested itself after India unveiled its nuclear-powered submarine, reflect China's "lack of self-confidence" and a "small heart", says Prof Shen Dingli, executive vice dean of the Institute of International Affairs at Fudan University in Shanghai. In an interview to DNA's Venkatesan Vembu, China's foremost authority on nuclear issues offers a radical suggestion for India and China to overcome their distrust of each other's nuclear programme. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The tectonic plates that underlie China's economic growth are shifting rapidly, and perhaps as early as next year, the country will for the first time in over 30 years slip into a trade deficit, with huge implications for other economies and, in particular, for the US dollar. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

China's manufacturing expanded for the fifth straight month, raising hopes of a sustainable recovery in the world's fastest-growing major economy on the strength of a massive stimulus package and record lending growth. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Karnataka politicians may be divided on the merits of learning English, but from faraway China comes a thumping endorsement of the importance of acquiring proficiency in the language - to the point where that country will soon have the world's largest English-speaking population. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When I was new to Hong Kong, I met Nida at our weekly Chinese class. She was from the Philippines and was working in Hong Kong as a foreign domestic helper; she had an incredible sense of humour and a lively spirit, and in class, just when we were grappling with the tonal complexities of the Chinese language, she'd say the funniest things and have us all in splits. For some unfathomable reason, though, she never could get my name - Venky - right, and always and forever insisted on calling me 'Bingo'. Such was her endearing charm that I let her have her way. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]