Despite the clerk’s entry of default against Hong Kong-based defendant iAqua Limited for its failure to formally respond to the patentees’ February 1, 2022 Complaint, federal district court Judge Smith in the Southern District of Florida twice denied patentees’ motions for default judgment and, on January 31, 2025, dismissed the patent infringement lawsuit.

There is still time to submit responses to Glass Lewis’s 2024 Policy Survey, which the proxy advisor uses to gauge investor and other stakeholder interests and market sentiment. Since Glass Lewis selects the questions, the policy survey also indicates the advisor’s areas of policy focus. In this blog post, we identify a few highlights from the Executive Compensation portion of the survey we think practitioners should be tracking.