Choosing The Right Corporate Structure For Your Business
In recent years the Limited Liability Company, which is typically referred to simply as an LLC, has become the darling of entrepreneurs and small businesses around the country. But the LLC is not...
View ArticlePicking Strategic Partners: How and Why
In business and the corporate world, it’s all about who know. When bringing an invention idea to fruition, it’s all about whom you partner with. There are tangible, financial benefits to finding...
View ArticleUSPTO Holds 2d Annual Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium
On Sunday March 25 and Monday March 26, 2012, I attended the Second Annual Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium (WES) in Shreveport, LA. The event was hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark...
View ArticleCelebration! Tuesday April 10 is Be Kind To Lawyers Day
So, what is this International Be Kind To Lawyers Day? I am so glad you asked! Steve Hughes, a non-lawyer from St. Louis, has been working with attorneys for many years now through his consulting firm...
View ArticleFederal Circuit: Exclusive licensee with all substantial rights can sue...
Over the course of several amendments, Disney granted increasing rights to Candella, by which Disney specifically intended to give Candella standing to sue for patent infringement. The court held that...
View ArticleSCOTUS to Hear ‘The Most Significant Unresolved Legal Issue in Trademark...
On February 20, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Mission Product Holdings Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC on appeal from the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The case presents the question...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Affirms Athena’s Diagnostic Method Claims Are Patent...
The Federal Circuit recently issued an opinion affirming the decision of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, which held that Athena’s medical diagnostic methods were...
View ArticleInvest Pic v. SAP America, Inc. Amicus Brief Takes on CAFC’s ‘Physical Realm’...
Among the seven amicus curiae briefs filed Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court in InvestPic, LLC, v. SAP America, Inc., Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund’s brief argues that the case...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Is Hesitant to Construe Patent Claims in the First Instance...
The Federal Circuit recently vacated and remanded a decision by the Northern District of California granting a motion on the pleadings that claims related to “toolbars” on computers were ineligible...
View ArticleFederal Circuit’s Dodocase Vr Decision Provides a Roadmap for Limiting AIA...
If you are a patent owner asserting and licensing your patent, chances are you want to avoid an America Invents Act (AIA) proceeding, whether that proceeding is an Inter Partes Review (IPR), Post Grant...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Finds District Court Abused Its Discretion in Admitting Lay...
On February 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in HVLPO2, LLC v. Oxygen Frog, LLC in which the appellate court reversed a decision from the Northern...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Finds District Court Abused Its Discretion by Enjoining a...
The Federal Circuit recently reversed, vacated, and remanded a decision by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, finding that the District Court had abused its...
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