assignment

Many preference defendants are not aware of the fact that if their pre-petition contract with the debtor is assumed or assigned in the course of the bankruptcy, then such assumption/assignment will generally serve as a bar to recovery for receipt of alleged preferential transfers.

Bankruptcy courts (and lawyers) continue to mystify by their inability to tell the difference between types of intellectual property, confusing patents, copyrights and trademarks as if they are all just variations on the same theme. In the Virgin Offshore USA, Inc. case, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana had to deal with lawyers who had trouble telling the difference between copyrights and trade-secrets (or at least argued as if they did).