• Cash-strapped public company lays off 40 percent of its staff

    In its most recent quarterly filing, Digital Ally reported revenues of $2.98 million, down 31 percent from 2016. The company attributed the difference to aggressive promotions by its competitors for law enforcement products, challenges to Digital Ally’s patents, and a large contract in the previous year.

     
  • Capital One Seeks To Revive Banking-Tech Monopoly Claims

    Law360, Washington (January 2, 2018, 3:31 PM EST) — Capital One Financial Corp. has given notice that it will ask the Federal Circuit to revive counterclaims nixed in Maryland federal court in late November that accused Intellectual Ventures I LLC of monopolizing the banking technology market with a …

     
  • Maryland fights prescription drug price-gouging; reader’s letter

    The Prohibition Against Price-Gouging for Essential Off-Patent or Generic Drugs law allows the attorney general to challenge drug prices that appear “unconscionable.” In other words, prices that represent a lack of meaningful choice on the part of the consumer whileunreasonably favorable to the drug …

     
  • Shawn Leppo to co-chair McNees’ Intellectual Property Group

    He practices in the Intellectual Property, Patent Division, and International Law Groups in the Harrisburg, PA office. His practice includes all aspects of intellectual property law, with a focus on patent counseling and litigation. Shawn has been named a Rising Star three times by Pennsylvania Super …

     
  • US Sen. Orrin Hatch announces retirement after 7th term

    … Hatch has helped pass the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. He also played a crucial role establishing the framework for regulations and production of generic drugs with the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act.

     
  • Sweet & Maxwell – Online Bookstore

    Patent Law in Australia Second Edition continues to be an indispensible guide to obtaining, maintaining, enforcing and challenging the validity of patents in Australia. Balancing both the practical nature of Australian Patent Office processes and in-depth analysis of statute and case law, Patent Law in …

     
  • Orrin Hatch, longest-serving Republican senator, won’t seek re-election

    With Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, he has pushed through key changes to patent law. And in 2013, Hatch was one of 14 Senate Republicans who voted for immigration legislation that would have provided a path to legal permanent residency for some undocumented immigrants.

     
  • Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch announces he will not seek re-election

    With Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, he’s pushed through key changes to patent law. And in 2013, Mr. Hatch was one of 14 Senate Republicans who voted for immigration legislation that would have provided a path to legal permanent residency for some undocumented immigrants.

     
  • Orrin Hatch, Longest-Serving GOP Senator, Won’t Seek Re-Election

    With Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, he’s pushed through key changes to patent law. And in 2013, Hatch was one of 14 Senate Republicans who voted for immigration legislation that would have provided a path to legal permanent residency for some undocumented immigrants.

     
  • Big Law Harms Society

    Notably missing from this discussion is the idea that working for Big Law harms society. …. As they becomes more powerful, they become capable of undermining the fail-safes set up against these tendencies (e.g. weakening antitrust laws and enforcement, strengthening intellectual property law, etc.).