Heh, heh, heh…ho, ho, ho,…whatever lead them to believe THAT?
The Federal Circuit, perhaps spurred on by the hysteria over “patent trolls,” continues to systematically extract whatever worn down, yellowed and decaying teeth remain in the patent laws. Their recent decision in Akamai v. Limelight reaffirms the recently created “single entity” rule that essentially requires…
You have heard about banks that are “too big to fail.” Well, we are about to find out if some law firms are too big to make mistakes.…
The eyes of the patent world were on Seattle this week as an Order denying injunctive relief was handed down in the ongoing Microsoft v. Motorola heavyweight title bout.
While I will leave it to others to discuss the minutiae and determine the implications for the industry, the main question on my mind is whether…
Or, “Those Who Live By The Sword…”
Here’s an amusing little class action case filed in Seattle this week. Seems Coach, Inc., well known purveyors of high end handbags and such, in their never-ending zeal to protect innocent consumers from inferior (and, more reasonably priced) “knock off” goods, unleashed their New York lawyers to crack…
As contingent-fee lawyers and supposed “patent trolls” to boot, my colleagues and I are blamed for many of the ills that plague society. It is we — who do not get paid unless we are successful — who file merit-less cases, prolong litigation, waste resources, and cause innocent defendants to pay their lawyers upwards of…
A few years back I wrote about what I saw as a developing “War on Juries” in patent cases. A couple of recent incidents suggest that the war continues.
Last week we lost a hard-fought case on summary judgment. That happens, it’s part of the game, and the lawyer who never loses most likely…
The overwhelming majority of cases settle. What varies is when, how and on what terms they do. Maybe it has to do with a weakening economy, but we’re seeing a definite trend for defendants (or more likely their lawyers) to dig in their heels and fight, rather than take the sensible approach of reaching a…
Count me among the latest to question whether the Eastern District of Texas is still THE venue for bringing plaintiff’s patent cases. A “Rocket Docket” it ain’t.
We’ve filed a fair number of cases in the Eastern District over the years. Although things used to move with dispatch, in one of our latest, the first…
getting the sense that the patent system is facing serious problems these days? When I got into this game in 1983, the then-newly-formed Federal Circuit was supposed to bring uniformity, predictability and even respectability to the patent system. And it did — for a while. Under former Chief Judge Markey, the Federal Circuit’s decisions made…
A while back I slammed Sun Microsystem’s President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz for calling those of us who enforce patents “spurious litigators.” Well, an article I came across today suggests Sun may now be ready and willing to do the right thing. At least that’s the sense I get from hearing Sun’s recent statement regarding…
