Page 13 - Ronald Mann News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

April 13, 2021 at 12:55 PM Shares1 Pardon the punny title, but there is simply no way that an IP columnist can write a column this week about anything other than the already-controversial Google v. Oracle SCOTUS decision. (For a great recap of the majority opinion authored by Justice Breyer, I commend the SCOTUSBlog opinion analysis authored by Ronald Mann, available here.) As everyone is aware, the dispute between Google and Oracle stemmed from Google’s copying — now koshered by SCOTUS as fair use — of over 10,000 lines of code from Sun Microsystem’s (acquired by Oracle) Java progra...

Yet, the constant challenge was wearing on the 54-year-old Marley — enough that when the COVID-19 pandemic began to be felt locally during the spring, Marley began contemplating retirement and selling the business at 5008 Peters Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem. A potential transaction fell through in July, with that company failing due to COVID-19-related funding issues, Marley said.  Conversations with Medicure progressed quickly, with Marley agreeing in September to sell the stock in Marley Drug to the Winnipeg, Manitoba-based company. The sale was completed Thursday. Medicure sai...