Attorney at Work
JANUARY 3, 2023
Jay Harrington | A “one and done” approach can help you make fewer decisions, and therefore make those decisions better. The post Make Better Decisions by Only Making them Once appeared first on Attorney at Work.
Simple Legal
JANUARY 5, 2023
It’s no secret to the legal industry that in-house counsel positions are generally seen as less strenuous than jobs at traditional law firms with billable hours. However, Bloomberg Law’s Attorney Workload and Hours Survey found that, on average, in-house lawyers only worked 3 hours less per week than their law firm peers. In 2021, Gartner discovered that 54% of in-house attorneys reported feeling “exhausted,” with 20% claiming they were “highly exhausted.
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 1, 2023
Substantial patent litigation activity occurred in the mRNA space in 2022, involving nearly all of the major mRNA and lipid nanoparticle (LNP) pioneers. Since this is the most significant happening in this space with respect to IP in 2022, this post will provide an overview of that activity as well as a summary exposure analysis.
InHouseBlog
JANUARY 1, 2023
A great way to ring in the New Year is to take a look at the top blogs and resources for in-house lawyers from the prior year. And fortunately, Sterling Miller of Ten Things You Need To Know As In-House Counsel fame has done the work for you. If you’re not following Sterling Miller you’re probably not doing it right. “…thank you all for sticking around for the ride, for the suggestions for topics, and, most of all, for the encouragement to keep on writing!
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Attorney at Work
JANUARY 4, 2023
Neville Pokroy | It’s quite simple to compete successfully with larger firms, as long as you keep these 10 factors in mind. The post How Do Small and Midsize Law Firms Punch Above Their Weight? appeared first on Attorney at Work.
Attorney at Work
JANUARY 5, 2023
The nonstop tide of regulatory change can be overwhelming for lawyers. Here are three practical ways to keep up with regulation changes in your practice area. The pace, volume and nuance of regulatory change is staggering. One moment, you’re up to date on the latest laws and rules in your areas of expertise. But the […]. The post Practical Ways to Keep Up with Regulatory Change in Your Practice Area appeared first on Attorney at Work.
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 4, 2023
Paul Morinville, Founder of US Inventor, recently published a response to my column criticizing RALIA, a bill in Congress that would abolish the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). I offer a few observations in reply. I argued in “The Made in China Act,” November 16, 2022, that juries are not an effective or reliable check on patent validity and that eliminating contested validity reviews at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) would be a disaster for U.S. manufacturing.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 4, 2023
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) stayed active over the holiday period with several big announcements, and today Director Kathi Vidal continued that trend by designating as precedential the December 21 decision in Apple v. Zipit Wireless. Also in December, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its full report on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), recommending, among other suggestions, that the Office make public any policies and directives
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 5, 2023
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday issued two orders denying mandamus relief for petitioners seeking to end the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware’s “judicial inquisition” concerning disclosure of their owners and third-party litigation funders. Chief Judge Colm Connolly’s standing orders on initial disclosures in patent litigation cases have been the subject of much controversy and are presently being appealed at the CAFC in a separate case.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 5, 2023
On January 3, a total of 14 amicus briefs and one motion for leave to participate in oral argument were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on the question presented by Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, on which the Supreme Court granted certiorari this past November. While organizations representing the most powerful interests in the technology industry supported the Federal Circuit’s holding that Amgen’s patent claims were invalid for lack of enablement, a wide swath of patent stakeholders are urging the Su
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 3, 2023
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Notice on the “Duties of Disclosure and Reasonable Inquiry During Examination, Reexamination, and Reissue, and for Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board” on July 29, 2022 (87 FR 45764-67), without a big reaction from the IP community. Patent attorneys mostly scratched their heads wondering what it means, especially as it was created in the backdrop of an attack on drug companies and drug pricing.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 6, 2023
Following a Motion for Recusal and Vacatur filed on December 30 by Centripetal Networks, Inc., a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) judge has now withdrawn from an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding in a stated effort to “reduce the number of issues and simplify the briefing.” Centripetal filed the December 30 Motion in an IPR brought against it in November 2021 by Palo Alto Networks, which Cisco Systems, Inc. successfully petitioned to join.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 4, 2023
The patent world is trained on the upcoming Supreme Court Amgen v. Sanofi case. That case is the first time in over 75 years that the Supreme Court is evaluating the meaning and scope of the enablement requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112. The case offers the Court an opportunity to correct a negative trend in enablement law that has made it more difficult to protect groundbreaking, pioneering inventions.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 6, 2023
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seeks public comment on its latest Strategic Plan and releases information on a pilot program that may help reduce gender disparities in patenting; a Texas-based technology files a lawsuit against Reebok alleging patent infringement; the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposes a new rule to eliminate non-compete clauses; and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announces the conviction of a former GE engineer
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 3, 2023
In Plastipak Packaging Inc. v. Premium Waters Inc., Appeal No. 2021-2244, decided December 19, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s (CAFC’s) newest judge threw a curveball on the topic of inventorship. Judge Leonard Stark wrote the precedential opinion, joined by Judges Newman and Stoll, and ultimately reversed and remanded the U.S.
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