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ABA Issues Ethics Opinion on 30-Year-Old Technology whose Use Is Waning. My Question: Why Now?

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When the American Bar Association’s ethics panel finally got around to issuing an opinion on lawyer blogging in 2018 — a full two decades after lawyers had started blogging — it conjured for me the image of Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep in 1769 and awoke 20 years later, having slept through the Revolution.

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The Future of Collaboration: Embracing the Digital Shift in Co-Authoring Legal Documents

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With the shift toward remote collaboration, we're witnessing a significant shift from the traditional “pen-holder" approach to document management to a more dynamic and collaborative method of co-authoring legal documents. The post The Future of Collaboration: Embracing the Digital Shift in Co-Authoring Legal Documents appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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The USPTO Needs to Investigate This Disturbing ‘Patent Examiner’ Reddit Thread

IP Watchdog

If you have done a search for just about anything using Google, you have no doubt at one time or another stumbled across Reddit, the self-described “home to thousands of communities, endless conversation, and authentic human connection.” Regardless of what you are interested in, there is a community and conversation to be found on Reddit. For those familiar with Reddit and the breadth of topics covered it probably comes as no real surprise that there is a patent examiner Reddit, which has some 4

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USPTO Proposes Controversial New Rule on Terminal Disclaimer Practice

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will officially publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) tomorrow that would change terminal disclaimer practice related to “non-statutory double patenting.” The judicially-created doctrine of “obviousness-type double patenting”(ODP) has become codified by the USPTO such that the Office will reject claims to more than one patent that vary in only minor ways from one another unless there is a promise by the patentee “not to extend the patent excl

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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SCOTUS Rejects Three-Year Limit on Copyright Damages But Sidesteps Accrual Question

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Supreme Court today issued its decision in Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy, a case that asks whether a copyright plaintiff can recover damages for acts that allegedly occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit. The Justices ruled 6-3 that “the Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to recover damages for any timely claim,” with no limit preventing recovery for infringement that happened beyond three years.

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CAFC Affirms ITC View on Aggregation of Domestic Industry Costs for Disparate Patents

IP Watchdog

On May 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential ruling in Zircon Corp. v. International Trade Commission affirming the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) ruling that Zircon Corp. had failed to meet the domestic industry requirement to prove a violation of 19 U.S.C. § 1337 due to Stanley Black & Decker’s alleged patent infringement.