• Corel Fights Microsoft ‘Ambush’ On Eve Of Patent Trial

    Law360, San Jose (January 23, 2018, 8:26 PM EST) — With two weeks before Corel Corp. defends itself in a damages trial over its infringement of Microsoft Corp. patents, Corel urged a federal judge Tuesday to block a former employee’s testimony, saying Microsoft was trying to use a discovery-sharing …

     
  • JANSSEN BIOTECH, INC.

    Before Prost, Renya, and Wallach. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: A patent owner cannot retroactively bring a continuation-in-part patent within the scope of § 121 during reexamination by removing the new matter and designating it as a divisional.

     
  • The Firms Filing The Most Patent Suits

    Law360, New York (January 23, 2018, 8:07 PM EST) — The list of law firms filing the most patent lawsuits was once again led by Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC over the final quarter of 2017, with the firm bringing almost 90 new infringement cases while representing companies including Blackbird …

     
  • Trump names Austin lawyer Alan Albright as federal judge

    Albright, 58, specializes in intellectual property litigation as a partner in the Bracewell law firm and served as a U.S. magistrate judge in Austin from 1992 to 1999. Albright also is a former adjunct professor who taught trial advocacy at the University of Texas Law School, where he was a... Continue reading

     
  • Trump Nominates 4 More Texans to the Federal Bench

    Barker previously as a partner in Austin’s Yetter Coleman, where he practiced commercial and intellectual property law, while Kernodle founded Haynes and Boone’s False Claims Act practice group. Haynes and Boone Managing Partner Tim Powers heaped praise on Kernoodle’s nomination. “Jeremy’s …

     
  • A Patent Lie PDF Download

    patent lie paul goldstein livres, “a patent lie” is an excellent read a trial lawyer from buffalo is brought to san francisco on short notice to try a patent law case the plot is well crafted, including many of the nuances peculiar to patent litigation, but without lapsing into legalese... Continue reading

     
  • Illumina, Ariosa Trade Demands for Nearly $100M in Damages as Trial Closes

    SAN FRANCISCO — It’s not unusual at the end of a high-stakes intellectual property trial for the parties to have wildly different damages figures. But less common is for both sides to demand that their opponent fork over nearly $100 million. At the close of a two-week federal jury trial... Continue reading

     
  • BREAKING: President Trump nominates FTC’s Maureen Ohlhausen to Court of Federal Claims

    … with distinction, from the University of Virginia, and her J.D., with distinction, from the George Mason University School of Law. President Trump also nominated three individuals to the United States Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, which has one of the most active patent dockets in …

     
  • ABA asks Federal Circuit to reverse panel’s decision awarding lawyer fees in patent appeal cases

    Lawyer fees rule: No win no fee CHICAGO, Jan. 23, 2018 — The American Bar Association filed an amicus brief today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, arguing that a provision of U.S. patent law does not give the government the right to be reimbursed... Continue reading

     
  • Artificial Intelligence

    Three years after Elon Musk announced in his famous “All Our Patent Are Belong To You” blog post that Tesla would be opening all of its patents to the public, he tweeted a recommendation of Max Tegmark’s recent book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence—which just... Continue reading