Tariff strategy to IP vulnerability: how corporate restructuring can damage patent enforcement and remedies

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Tariff strategy to IP vulnerability: how corporate restructuring can damage patent enforcement and remedies

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Nirav Desai and Sasha S Rao at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox explore how companies’ efforts to manage tariffs by altering corporate structures can undermine their ability to assert their patents and recover damages

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