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Law School Casebook Review: Patent Law Fundamentals (Brean & Snow) 2d Ed

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By David Hricik, Mercer Law School I realize most readers aren’t law professors, so you can stop now… I have taught IP courses for years and often the books seek to teach the subject through cases, which is a very difficult way to learn it.

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SCOTUS, Vaccine Mandates and Patent Law: God Help Us

IP Watchdog

Is the Supreme Court competent to handle issues dealing with technology? The question is often discussed in private among patent attorneys who find themselves completely befuddled by the wanton disregard and open duplicitous handling of patent laws by the Nation’s High Court.

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Fish & Richardson Named a 2023 “Law Firm of the Year” for Intellectual Property Litigation and Patent Litigation by U.S. News – Best Lawyers

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Fish & Richardson is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a “Law Firm of the Year” for Litigation – Intellectual Property and LitigationPatent in U.S. News & World Report – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” 2023 edition. Litigation – Intellectual Property . LitigationPatent .

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Supreme Court on Patent Law: November 2023

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by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court is set to consider several significant patent law petitions addressing a range of issues from the application of obviousness standards, challenges to PTAB procedures, interpretation of joinder time limits IPR, to the proper scope patent eligibility doctrine. Hamilton Technologies (No.

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Court Denies Attempts to Compel Disclosure of Litigation Funding Documents

The IP Law Blog

Kewalramani), the Central District of California denied Defendant Netflix’s attempts to compel Plaintiff GoTV Streaming to provide documents and further information as to the source of the litigation funding that GoTV received in conjunction with the patent litigation.

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Patent Law at the Supreme Court February 2022

Patently-O

20-891 (CVSG requested May 3, 2021); Res Judicata and the Patent-Specific Kessler Doctrine : PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Qualcomm had previously sued Apple for patent infringement, and Apple responded with a set of inter partes review petitions. The settlement also included a license to thousands of Qualcomm patents.

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Delaware Judge Seeks to Expose Patent-Litigation Funders

The IP Law Blog

Do defendants and the court have the right to ask who is funding a particular patent litigation? The party must identify the third-party funder and whether the third-party funder has the right to approve litigation or settlement decisions. The issue arose as a result of two standing orders issued by Judge Connolly.