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How Patent Owners Should Be Rethinking Venue Selection and Case Strategy in a World Without Waco

IP Watchdog

Litigants and lawyers who previously relied on Judge Albright’s favorable procedural rules and efficient trial schedules as a proxy for more rigorous due diligence will now need to take a closer look at the merits of their cases when considering whether and where to file.

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How to Enforce Patents When You Don’t Have Money: Patent Litigation Funding

Patent Trademark Blog

What are the general requirements for securing patent litigation funding? Each litigation funder will have its own due diligence checklist. A pre-litigation prior art search can help uncover new prior art references that were not of record during the prosecution of the patent. Need to fund a patent infringement lawsuit?

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Newly promoted principals for 2022 are: Michael Ballanco focuses his practice on all aspects of patent infringement matters at the trial and appellate level. Dr. Peng (Paul) Lin concentrates his practice on patent prosecution and counseling, opinion work, due diligence studies, and patent portfolio development and management.

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Fish Attorneys Named Finalists for San Diego Business Journal “Leaders in Law” Award

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Michael Amon has devoted his career to helping clients resolve their highest-stakes patent infringement disputes. Culhane is a key advisor on patent prosecution, due diligence and patentability, and freedom-to-operate matters. With clients around the globe and across the U.S,

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Fish & Richardson Attorneys Named Recipients of the 2020 Patent Pro Bono Achievement Certificate

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

His practice emphasizes patent portfolio counseling and management, preparation and prosecution of patent applications, patent infringement analysis, patent validity analysis, and post-grant patent challenges. Grace Kim is a principal in the Twin Cities office.

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Patent Assertion Entities: A Boon or a Bane?

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The term ‘Patent Troll’ originated in 1994 in an educational video by Paula Natasha Chavez called the ‘Patents Video.’ ’ A patent troll is a term used for describing a company that uses Patent Infringement claims to win arguments and court judgments for profit or to stifle competition.

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Community Property and Patent Ownership

Patently-O

29, 2013), the court dismissed a patent infringement suit because the plaintiff-inventor had not joined his former spouse. For example, applying Florida law, the court in Taylor v. Taylor Made Plastics, Inc., 2013 WL 1798964 (M.D.