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Declaratory Judgment: How to Fight a Patent Infringement Claim When Stakes Are High

Patent Trademark Blog

Instead of asking for money damages or an injunction, the accused infringer is asking the court to render a decision that their products do not infringe a particular patent. Need to defend a patent infringement claim? What if the patent owner sent a friendly letter inviting you to consider taking a license?

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Community Property and Patent Ownership

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For the first element, all of the patent applications, provisional and non-provisional, filed during the marriage are properly presumed to be sole management community property. 29, 2013), the court dismissed a patent infringement suit because the plaintiff-inventor had not joined his former spouse. 2013 WL 1798964 (M.D.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 15 Attorneys to Principal in Class Distinguished by Diversity of Background and Experience

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

As a patent attorney registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Lawrence has also assisted clients with patent due diligence, patent prosecution, and other non-litigation patent analysis, including IP licensing. In 2015, Joy received her J.D. in history.