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Miller Mendel patent fraud defamation claim survives motion to dismiss in US

( December 2, 2024, 10:10 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Because "the dissemination of information on the Internet to the public at large necessarily involves an audience wholly unconnected to the judicial process,” Guardian Alliance Technologies, a software vendor that operated a website critical of its competitor, cannot invoke litigation privilege to Miller Mendel's claim of defamation, a US judge ruled. In the same ruling, US District Judge Jodi W. Dishman of the Western District of Oklahoma said that because the defamation claim shares a common nucleus of operative facts with an infringement action against Guardian Alliance Technologies' client, the exercise of supplemental jurisdiction is not improper.See attached file....

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