Tomorrow (February 1, 2018), I am presenting a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program on the Basics of Intellectual property (IP) for the general attorney. With the value of IP assets a large factor of our economy, general practice attorneys frequently…
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Despite the value of intellectual properties to the United States, there have been numerous efforts of late to curtail those rights, rights which were enacted by our Founders to encourage inventors and creators. The Constitutionality of some of these rights…
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The Supreme Court has been quite active fine-tuning the patent system and deboning the law of the Federal Circuits for many years. Today is no exception. In Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. (May 30, 2017), Chief Justice Roberts…
The Supreme Court today decided a monumental case in patent law regarding venue, i.e., where a patent plaintiff can file a lawsuit. TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC (May 22, 2017). For a few decades, the operative…
On February 23, 2017 in Washington, DC, the Licensing Executives Society (www.les.org) is having a Patent Damages Symposium with prominent damages professionals and IP attorneys, including Krista Holt, CEO of GreatBridge Consulting, Inc, Ryan Morris, a partner at Sidley &…
For those in the Washington, DC area, I am giving a talk at INCA (http://www.dcinventors.org/) next Monday evening. INCA, which stands for the Inventors Network of the Capital Area, is a nonprofit educational organization whose members are interested in patents, the innovation…
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