Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As law firms consider how they can better allocate work to associates, one key part of the conversation has to be about skills and skills tracking. How Skills Tracking Improves Bench Strength Skills tracking is already a growing part of law firm talent management. Firms are formalizing their skills libraries and standardizing the skills each […] The post Talent Management: How Skills Tracking Improves Resource Allocation and Associate Satisfaction appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Simple Legal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In-house legal departments have to continue to do more with less in 2023. As the year starts with a challenging economic climate where resources continue to decrease, legal professionals must remain agile and adapt whenever and wherever needed. We’re sitting down with legal professionals to discuss the impact and their view on the future of legal and legal technology in 2023 and beyond.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Scroll through social media and you’re certain to find countless posts of images generated by artificial intelligence, or “AI.” Tools such as DALL-E 2, Starry AI, Jasper, and the like have exploded in popularity, allowing users to do everything from creating stylized versions of the user’s own photographs, to inputting silly, incongruous prompts like “red headed cow with John Lennon sunglasses,” and receiving almost instantaneous results with no further effort by the user.

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Lawmatics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Getting a new position to work in big law is an exciting milestone. Yet as prepared as you may feel, chances are you've got a pit in your stomach knowing what to expect. It's no secret that you'll be working long and hard alongside some serious big dogs with impressive credentials. Big law attorneys are known for working as much as 80 hours per week.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Get to the Point! | Getting diacritical marks right in your legal documents can make or break your case. The post How Many Letters Are in the Alphabet? More Than You Think appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Hanzo Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Last year , the FTC announced they were going to “crackdown on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security,” and have been pursuing a number of lawsuits as a result. Many of these are bold in their approach, which may catch many corporate legal teams off guard.

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Lawmatics

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It may not be a box of chocolates or a dozen red roses, but Lawmatics is here to deliver something even better this February: a new batch of features! Kanban Board for Tasks The Tasks dashboard now has the same Pipeline visualization you know and love. You can drag and drop Tasks through your sequence of statuses in the Kanban view. In addition to custom Task statuses, this feature will keep your Tasks more organized than ever.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Bull Garlington | The most important soft skill of them all. The post Soft Skills: How to Hack Your Greatest Superpowers appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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InHouseBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Becoming an in-house lawyer is a transition for many, especially those that have spent significant time at large law firms. The skillset is different, the dynamics are different, and the feel is different. What does it take to start your metamorphosis into becoming an in-house lawyer? Well, certainly you first must understand how to find an in-house counsel job.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Luxury fashion brand Hermès won their trademark lawsuit against Mason Rothschild, the creator of the non-fungible tokens (NFT) MetaBirkins, on Wednesday. The trial was the first legal case that tested the bounds of artistic expression in NFTs against the country’s intellectual property laws. A nine-member New York jury ordered Rothschild to pay Hermès $110,000 for infringing on the luxury brand’s trademark, and $23,000 for cybersquatting.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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Optima Juris

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

After two years of uncertainty, attorneys can now take depositions in Germany again! Germany’s strict regulations meant in-person depositions were suspended due to Covid-19. However, as Europe lifted its restrictions, Germany is now allowing for in-person depositions of willing witnesses to take place. Here are three essential takeaways you need to keep in mind.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What do the best holiday social media posts have in common? It’s a new year, which means a clean social media calendar and another round of holidays that need fresh content. But before you start brainstorming your post for Lincoln’s Birthday, we are here to liberate you from that burden. Don’t. Law firms — or […] The post Take a Vacation From Your Holiday Social Media Burden With These Two Questions appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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InHouseBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Last year was a year of uncertainty for legal departments—and from the looks of it, they’re bracing for more of the same in 2023. The biggest geopolitical and economic issues of the last year—war in Ukraine, inflation, market uncertainty, and the potential for a global recession—still loom over businesses across the world, but they aren’t stopping the momentum of other forces acting on corporations across the globe.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has a well-earned and perfectly appropriate problem with perception, and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal seems to be doing her level best to make that problem of perception even worse. It isn’t bad enough that petitioners do not owe the PTAB or the Office itself a duty of candor, but now they can stay in a case as a petitioner even if they are found to have engaged in extortion.

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The Cloud Court Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you’ve spent time talking with us or browsing our web site, odds are you’ve seen or heard this imperative phrase, Litigate like you mean it. ® We believe it’s so important that we needed to trademark it. Why? What does it mean? And why should you care? For starters, it resonates with us like an anthem. If you litigate like you mean it, you’re challenging yourself to continuously measure and continuously improve as an advocate so you can deliver the best possible outcomes.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This week we have Damien Riehl , VP, Litigation Workflow and Analytics Content at FastCase, and one of the drivers behind SALI (Standards Advancement for for the Legal Industry.) Damien is definitely a “big thinker” when it comes to the benefits of creating and using standards for the legal industry. SALI is a system of tagging legal information to allow for better filtering and analysis.

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InHouseBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Positive lawyers find their way through a constant journey of self-improvement. Working in the most stressful profession can grind down even the most battle-hardened among us. Fortunately, there are others who help pave the way through their own example or by sharing information to help others. A rising tide certainly lifts all ships, and Caterina Cavallaro’s recent piece at the ACC Docket includes not only her own thoughts on self-improvement but those of a number of other in-house counse

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today upheld in a precedential decision the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) denial of Director rehearing for two inter partes review (IPR) decisions in which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) found CyWee Group Ltd.’s U.S. Patent Nos. 8,441,438 and 8,552,978 unpatentable. The IPRs were brought by Google in 2018 challenging certain claims of the two patents, which cover 3D pointing devices.

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Legally Speaking

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

We know that not every legal professional or firm is built the same. Some of them were able to tailor their solutions to stand out in a competitive marketplace but others are still struggling to implement strategies. This week we’re super excited to be chatting with Jordan Ostroff , who is a creative businessman who serves as a President of LegalEase Marketing , a Managing Partner of Jordan Law FI, and a board member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Florida.

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Lawmatics

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More and more lawyers are using customer relationship management — or small law firm CRM — software to help them keep track of their clients, and no–we're not talking about the old Rolodex systems of yore. With today's streamlined CRM systems, it has never been easier for lawyers to manage client data efficiently. Using a CRM, you’re able to create marketing campaigns tailored to a specific audience to identify prospective clients.

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InHouseBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Office 365 tips for lawyers, oh my! At a CLE a few years ago on Office 365, the presenter said that Microsoft rarely gets a feature request that it doesn’t try to incorporate into its Office 365 products. The result is that your favorite and oft-used features may then be relegated to sub-menus that take 15 clicks to reach if you are lucky enough to find them.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a number of bills targeting the pharmaceutical industry. The bills passed on a bipartisan basis and with minimal discussion, by a voice vote, though Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) reiterated concerns he has had since the bills' introduction. Here is a recap of what the bills aim to do.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Late last week, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued an order denying a motion for recusal and vacatur filed by patent owner Centripetal Networks, which had previously alleged that an administrative patent judge (APJ) on the PTAB panel had an improper financial interest in Cisco. Centripetal had previously obtained a $1.9 billion damages verdict ($2.7 billion including the royalty award) in U.S. district court against Cisco for infringement of the patent at issue in the PTAB action.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

On Friday, February 3, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal issued an order in the ongoing Director Review of OpenSky v. VLSI, restoring OpenSky as a party to the inter partes review (IPR) and awarding reasonable attorney fees to VLSI as sanctions against OpenSky. Vidal had dismissed OpenSky from the proceedings in December after first merely relegating OpenSky to be a “silent understudy” to the proceedings.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The American Bar Association (ABA) filed an amicus brief on February 3 with the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Court to clarify issues related to the application of the Lanham Act to trademark disputes that cross international borders. The ABA filed the brief in the Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. trademark case, in which the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Case law has defined prosecution laches as an affirmative defense against an infringement assertion. Specifically, the case law indicates a patent that is being asserted is unenforceable when the patentee caused an unreasonable and unexplained delay in prosecution of the patent. Symbol Tech v Lemelson Medical, No. 04-1451 (Fed. Cir. 2005). There is relatively little case law on the specifics of laches.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The 2023 top 100 innovators have been revealed in the second annual Innovation Momentum Report, once again uncovering forward-thinking patent development and showcasing some of the most innovative companies—both big and small. In an increasingly fast-paced and complex modern technological landscape, the report sheds light on the most promising and active players by looking at the dynamics of technology development over the past two years.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This week in Other Barks & Bites: The Senate Judiciary Committee passes a number of bills that aim to reduce drug prices and anticompetitive practices by pharmaceutical companies; the USPTO opens its nomination period for a prestigious technology award; the U.S. Copyright Office tells a district court it acted reasonably in denying Stephen Thaler’s AI-created artwork; and the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discusses U.S.-China relations after a tense weekend, a house committee holds a hearing on removing barriers to capital for small businesses, and the AEI talks to experts about the growing industry of metascience and its importance to U.S. innovation.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It was a rather light district court week for patent filings, with just 24 new cases filed last week—we are starting to see the effects of a depressed rate of filing from IP Edge in the overall numbers (link behind paywall). The week also saw an average number of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings, all inter partes reviews (IPRs). A number of IP Edge pending disputes settled last week; it looks like the Bell Semiconductor/Hilco Capital suit against seemingly the entire semiconductor in

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Following an incredibly contentious vote for Speaker of the House, it has taken some time for Congressional subcommittees to take shape. However, at least the Republican membership of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet has taken shape in recent days, featuring a couple of well-known politicians whose efforts on patent system reforms have represented the interests of either end of the world of IP system stakeholders.

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