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2025 is off to a rip-roaring start in the world of patent law!
2025 is off to a rip-roaring start in the world of patent law!
It is hard not to read the Lex Machina report without at least a measure of respect for the PTAB’s ability to keep to the statutory deadlines for cases that were already pending when COVID-19 hit.
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Unified has done yeoman’s work in trying to tell the story of NPE and IPR activity in 2019.
Watch out, because defendants know that patentees will do everything they can to dodge the PTAB.
Both patent owners and challengers benefit in the long run from a Federal Circuit actively engaged in policing the PTAB.
Domestic or foreign law, district court or the Patent and Trademark Office, judge or jury? These questions matter.
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* While associate bonuses held steady this year, Biglaw's final 2017 numbers are still up in the air... firms have an inordinate amount of unpaid bills out there. Time to start cracking some heads! [New York Law Journal] * Prince Harry is apparently marrying a TV lawyer. [Independent] * The squeaky wheel gets the cert. The Supreme Court routinely runs to the rescue of on a few key judges in dissent. [Empirical SCOTUS] * Looks like PTAB's IPR rules are safe. I could go into more detail but the people who care about that already know what it means based on the first sentence. [Reuters] * Looks like Michael Flynn really is edging toward a plea deal. [ABC News] * Tech GC weighs in on the plan to repeal net neutrality. For some reason, he doesn't think a half-baked plan based on shoddy, self-serving research makes much sense. Weird. [Corporate Counsel] * Interesting analysis of the "commodification" problem in the legal industry. [Forbes] * For anyone who attended a for-profit school and got the shaft, the Project on Predatory Student Lending is out there looking to help. [Legal Services Center]
Are the days of patent trolls numbered?
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