Companies often communicate with government agencies directly or through trade associations for a variety of reasons. But what happens when an adverse party tries to use comments made.
Noerr-Pennington doctrine applies to product liability suits. Hamilton v. AccuTek, the court granted judgment for gun manufacturers for product liability and fraud claims in part because the manufacturers’ attempts to influence federal policies were lawful lobbying attempts.
On August 13, 2021, in a decision that largely flew under antitrust and patent practitioners’ radars, U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh mostly denied a motion to dismiss in the alleged.