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You know the server that allows you to view this post, from any spot in the world, might sit at any place on that same Earth, right?
But do you intend to access the post from a particular server, in a specific spot?
Whew! Good for you. Because if you did, you might have
If you want to jam a stick in the spokes of the turning wheel we call litigation, how do you get the most bang for your buck?
Here's how: You hire a lawyer. But you don't pay him. And then you fire him. You retain a new one. Ignore her bills. Let her go. Repeat
Way back when, a long time ago, Company X granted Company Y a broad license to some of Company's X's patents. Let's call them the "Original Patents".
Company X later assigns the Original Patents to Company Z. But Company Z thinks the Original Patents didn't go far enough in making claims to the subject matter of the
Today the Supreme Court granted review in Federal Trade Comm'n v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, No. 12-416 (U.S.), an antitrust case that presents the question of whether section 1 of the Sherman Act bars Competitor A from paying Competitor B to delay rolling out a generic drug that vies for sales with Competitor A's brand-name drug. Posts
Congress handed the Federal Circuit the job of grading district courts' papers any time a case raises a meaty question of patent law. The court has taken its role to heart. Although issues of how to handle a case — procedural matters — turn on the law of the circuit from which the case comes
Fix in your mind an image — of an offshore drilling rig. One that looks like a big boat. You see the derrick. It sits atop and in the middle of the boat. And then you notice something odd. The derrick has two tops, from each of which a string of metal depends. What gives?
If you could see Blawgletter right now, you might notice some blushing. For that of which we write betrays a streak we prefer not to show.
The story begins Monday morning, when we heard a U.S. Supreme Court justice mention "Coke on Littleton, 1628" — and instantly knew what he meant. Why the blaze of recognition? It came because we'd lately
Blawgletter wrote No More Mr. Nice Patent-Infringer Guy about five years ago. It told about how the Supreme Court and Federal Circuit had lately cleared the way for people to pre-empt a lawsuit for patent infringement by suing for a declaratory judgment first. And just last week we pointed out that someone who avails herself of the pre-emptive
Say your dear client fears that a patent holder can hardly wait to sue YDC for infringement. YDC — a lovely outfit with lots of nice people — asks you what to do. You knit your brows, think deep thoughts, draw on the deep well of experience, conduct thought experiments, and come up with a
A law prof at a small school in the Golden State opined that the jury in Apple v. Samsung went Way Too Far when on August 24 it awarded Apple almost $1.05 billion after finding that Samsung copied — very much on purpose — Apple's smartphone designs.
His analysis? That an "average smartphone may arguably