Intellectual Property – May 23, 2012

by Lane Powell PC - Intellectual Property Law &... on 4/25/2012

During past month when many patent practitioners may have been distracted by the “laws of nature” meaning of the Mayo v. Prometheus decision, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued four precedential rulings...more

by Lane Powell PC - Intellectual Property Law &... on 3/27/2012

What happens when a start-up company (Protostorm) retains a sole practitioner to prepare provisional patent applications, another solo lawyer to prepare the corresponding U.S. non-provisional application, and yet another firm...more

by Sedgwick LLP on 11/10/2011

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently ruled that a patent legal malpractice plaintiff was not judicially estopped from re-filing its lawsuit in federal court after initially filing it in...more

by Sedgwick LLP on 2/1/2011

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a ruling on January 20, 2011 concluding that a legal malpractice action alleging negligent prosecution of a patent fell within the court’s...more

by Sedgwick LLP on 11/8/2010

Legal malpractice defense attorneys often prefer to defend malpractice cases in federal court rather than state court. Reasons for this vary, but federal judges sometimes are perceived to be more willing than state court...more

by Joseph Sano on 1/22/2009

A rogue worker's gift to the "hacker community" held not covered under litigation service provider's E&O insurance as an excluded misappropriation of trade secret according to a recent Massachusetts SJC decision(Finn v. Nat'l...more

by Jeffrey Roy on 12/14/2007

This case involved state court claims of legal malpractice, breach of contract, and violations of the Consumer Protection Act, that happened to arise out of legal work involving a the failure by an attorney to file a patent...more

by Daniel Kegan on 10/1/2006

t was a dark and stormy night when the dame appeared in the doorway of Mark Trade,TM intellectual property investigator. Initial research by Guy Noir indicated there might have been a death under suspicious circumstances, but...more