Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Over the course of a career, almost every lawyer learns that their personal network is their most valuable asset and plays a critical role in generating clients, advancing within a firm, and finding new jobs. Table of contents 1. Meet people with the same hobby 2. Get active in alumni committees and events 3. Immerse yourself in your community 4. Attend industry events 5.
My Shingle
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Are you overwhelmed by marketing options? Unsure whether marketing vendors are selling you a bill of goods? Trying to figure out what marketing will give you the best bang for the buck? You’re in luck.
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IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 1, 2022
On Friday afternoon, the IEEE Standards Association Board of Governors (IEEE SA BOG) announced they had taken action to update the Patent Policy for IEEE standards development. The updates, which will not go into effect until January 1, 2023, appear at first glance to be minimal, but will likely have an extraordinarily positive impact for patent owners.
MyCase
OCTOBER 7, 2022
When done well, referral marketing is one of the most lucrative ways to generate business and grow your firm. But building a solid referral network of clients and other professionals is challenging in this digital era of remote work and conducting business online. Fortunately, there are several strategies that your firm can implement to build a lawyer referral network both in person and online. .
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.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Consider the elements of your current digital marketing strategy. If you are seeing any degree of success, your law firm is likely using SEO-researched keywords, organizing your content in a way that leads potential clients to your contact information, using social media platforms to connect with leads, optimizing your website, and more. But what about email marketing?
My Shingle
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Are you thinking about starting a law firm? Or maybe you’ve just started and find yourself with more questions than answers. Fear not! It’s time for MyShingle.com’s annual webinar, Make 2023 the Year to Start a Law Firm.
Trial Strategy Today brings together the best content for law professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
InHouseBlog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Lawyer burnout decreased slightly from Q4 2021, but it is still a major issue plaguing the profession. As the pandemic recedes, in-house lawyers need to start implementing new tools to mitigate the effects of burnout as we enter the New Normal. As we posted recently, travel and nature can form part of the toolkit. Keeping things simple, and finding new ways to do old things more efficiently to free up additional time can also help.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Every lawyer can use a hand up, especially when it comes to navigating the unwritten rules of making partner or stepping into a leadership role. Sponsorship by someone with more seniority can make a difference in a career — particularly for a woman. But that begs the question, how exactly do you go about finding a sponsor? Ida Abbott is the author of “Sponsoring Women: What Men Need to Know” and a well-known expert in developing talent in law firms.
My Shingle
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Ordinarily, you’d expect a large law firm to celebrate one of its lawyers securing a major victory at the United States Supreme Court. But that wasn’t Kirkland & Ellis reaction last June following then-partner Paul Clement’s win in a major gun rights case.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Earlier this week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) suspended the sponsored accounts of two U.S. attorneys who loaned their name and bar credentials to an Indian law firm so they could file trademark submissions in violation of USPTO rules. The Indian firm used the names of the American attorneys to pose as U.S.-based attorneys and represent clients in trademark registration.
Advertiser: Trellis
With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.
Evidence at Trial
OCTOBER 3, 2022
"Be sincere, Be Brief, Be seated. — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Too often in jury trials, attorneys mistakenly think getting evidence admitted is a dry and mechanical process separate and apart from the task of persuasion. Closing argument, the theory goes, is when it will all come together. Experienced trial lawyers know how misguided this approach can be.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 6, 2022
As we at “Get to The Point” learned long ago, people are passionate about grammar. Author Ellen Jovin learned this as she and her husband traveled to 47 states to set up a small grammar table and hear passersby’s questions and complaints. For example, she met: A 23-year-old man in Decatur, Alabama, who exclaimed, “I really love grammar.” A man in Memphis who proclaimed, “We’re a grammar family.
My Shingle
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Three years ago when I first posted about lawyers using microinfluencers, TikTok was barely a blip on the marketing radar. Fast forward to today, and social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram reels are empowering nano influencers, defined by Influencer Marketing as influencers with active social profiles, but fewer than 10,000 followers.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
There is a reason many stakeholders believe the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has been weaponized against patent owners. From the very outset, the first Chief Judge of the PTAB famously, or infamously, stated that if the tribunal was not doing some “death squadding” they were not doing their jobs; a rebuke to then Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall Rader’s observation that the PTAB was nothing more than a death squad for patents.
MyCase
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Criminal defense firms often face two major challenges: addressing significant market competition and generating qualified leads. Without a marketing strategy to differentiate your firm and connect with targeted prospects, your practice will struggle to profit. . The following guide will cover the basics of criminal defense marketing. This includes why your firm should invest in a marketing plan, as well as five best practices for criminal defense attorney advertising.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 7, 2022
What’s the best law office organization system? Easy. It’s the one you will use. If you want to control the chaos in your office, you can’t wait for the perfect system to come along. So let’s start. Organize the CHAOS of Your Office Once and For All. What do I mean by CHAOS — and what’s with the caps? If you have read any of my past articles here at Attorney at Work, you know I have a thing for creating acronyms: D-A-F-T, SAD, Ctrl Journal, BYOB.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Last June, Gene Quinn published an iconic article, “Yu v. Apple Settles It: The CAFC is Suffering from a Prolonged Version of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome,” in which Mr. Quinn evokes Lewis Carrol’s White Queen, “who was known to have sometimes ‘believed six impossible things before breakfast’” to describe the ridiculous nature of the Yu. v. Apple decision.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The Federal Circuit’s denial of en banc rehearing and the Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari review mean the decision in American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, 967 F.3d 1285 (Fed. Cir. 2020), is the latest word on subject-matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. In American Axle, the Federal Circuit applied the Supreme Court’s two-part Alice/Mayo test to hold a method for manufacturing driveline propeller shafts with liners designed to attenuate vibrations invalid as
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York unsealed multiple documents last week that named the kingpins behind an alleged counterfeit HIV medication conspiracy. An unsealed amended complaint filed in late September names the two alleged kingpins as Lazaro Roberto Hernandez and Armando Herrera, both of Florida. The two “kingpin defendants” are accused of being “at the head of the conspiracy” and “career criminals who organized the conspiracy and controlled the flow of the count
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 4, 2022
In a much-anticipated decision, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal today issued a precedential Director review ruling holding that inter partes review (IPR) petitioner OpenSky Industries, LLC abused the IPR process in its conduct with patent owner, Technology LLC, and sanctioning OpenSky by excluding it from the IPR proceedings and “temporarily elevating Intel to the lead petitioner.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it is seeking comment from the public on “proposed initiatives directed at bolstering the robustness and reliability of patents to incentivize and protect new and nonobvious inventions while facilitating the broader dissemination of public knowledge to promote innovation and competition.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 7, 2022
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Marybeth Peters, formerly the Register of Copyrights from 1994 to 2010, passes away at the age of 83; Director Vidal allows OpenSky to remain a “silent understudy” in VLSI IPRs; the USPTO requests comments on agency initiatives designed to ensure robust and reliable patent rights; the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy publishes a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights; the U.S.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
There is a surge of protests in the air and increased cries of “structural bias” concerning the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) granting of patent reviews, fueled by the July report issued by the U.S. Government and Accountability Office (GAO) revealing that 75% of surveyed PTAB judges said that control by office directors and Board management affected their autonomy.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 4, 2022
On September 26, Licensing Executives Society (LES) USA and Canada published the LES High Tech Sector Royalty Rates & Deal Terms Survey Report 2021. In May of this year, the 2021 Global Life Sciences Royalty Rates and Deal Terms Survey results were released. Together, the releases culminated the intense efforts by LES during the COVID-19 pandemic in preparing and launching the Surveys and in analyzing the data, presenting the results and writing the Reports.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
This week in Washington IP news, both houses of Congress are silent as they enter scheduled work periods but the Hudson Institute and the American Enterprise Institute host conversations with Chris Miller, the author of Chip Wars: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. Another Hudson Institute event with Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Noah Phillips explores what the proper role is for the United States’ top antitrust enforcement agency in regulating the tech sector, while the
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 1, 2022
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Chief Justice Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court signs an order staying the Federal Circuit’s mandate invalidating Novartis’ patent claims covering the MS treatment Gilenya; the U.S. Copyright Office issues a final rule simplifying remitter payment and deposit account requirements; the Federal Circuit denies a petition for mandamus relief to transfer a patent case out of Western Texas over Judge Lourie’s dissent regarding concerns over remote workers; the U.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 1, 2022
District court and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings were both down substantially this week, with 57 and 15, respectively, and 91 district court terminations. The drop-off of patent filings in the Western District of Texas has perhaps not been as pronounced as might be expected, though obviously most of those cases are being assigned to other judges there, or continuations of defendants being added to suits already within the Waco court’s jurisdiction.
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