In This Issue: Patents - Supreme Court: State Court Has Jurisdiction over a Legal Malpractice Claim; Nothing Non-Obvious About Applying Pre-Existing Technology to the Internet; The Federal Circuit Is Not the...more
In Gunn v. Minton, the Supreme Court held that federal courts do not have exclusive jurisdiction over patent malpractice claims. Under 28 USC § 1338(a), federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over cases “arising under any...more
Earlier we reported on both the U.S. Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in the Gunn v. Minton case decided by the Supreme Court of Texas and the submission of Petitioner's and several supporting amicus curiae briefs. Gunn is...more