Attorney at Work
JANUARY 10, 2024
Your clients may not be as enthusiastic about your tech as you are. Here's how to stay in sync The post How to Avoid Annoying In-House Counsel With Your Tech appeared first on Attorney at Work.
Lawmatics
JANUARY 11, 2024
In a competitive legal marketplace, it’s imperative for attorneys to find the most time-efficient way to get real value when networking. The saying used to be, “It’s all about who you know.” Today, it’s about how you leverage those you know. In this webinar, Lawmatics Co-Founder and CEO Matt Spiegel is joined by Steve Fretzin, a four-time author, host of the Be That Lawyer podcast, and business coach with over 20 years of experience working on legal business development for lawyers.
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 11, 2024
Today, U.S. Representatives María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Madeleine Dean (D-PA) introduced the No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas And Unauthorized Duplications (No AI FRAUD) Act of 2024 to create legal mechanisms by which Americans can prevent unauthorized uses of their likenesses and voices by generative AI platforms. The bill seeks to provide for intellectual property (IP) rights in an individual’s voice and likeness as well as remedies including statutory damages and disgorged profits
Hanzo Blog
JANUARY 9, 2024
As we step into 2024, the legal industry continues to be reshaped by technological advancements. This year promises to bring new developments that could revolutionize how legal professionals work and interact with clients.
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Attorney at Work
JANUARY 8, 2024
Jay Harrington | Unscalable actions often form the secret sauce of successful ventures in all industries. The post To Build Your Legal Practice, Do Things That Don’t Scale appeared first on Attorney at Work.
InHouseBlog
JANUARY 7, 2024
If you are an in-house counsel or aspiring to be one, learning to have executive presence will be key to your career. Law firm lawyers often believe that they have executive presence, but many are surprised to learn that they lack these critical skills once they start their in-house lives. Fortunately, there are a lot of resources on the subject that current and prospective in-house counsel can read and learn from: Why In-House Counsel Need Executive Presence by Amii Barnard-Bahn at the ACC Dock
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Legally Speaking
JANUARY 7, 2024
Learn about the challenges and progress in fostering neurodiversity inclusion within the legal industry. This week we’re super excited to be chatting with Martin Whitehorn, a distinguished property solicitor at Julie West Solicitors. Martin shares his unique journey into law and his subsequent achievements that have positioned him as a trailblazer in the legal community.
Attorney at Work
JANUARY 11, 2024
Erik Mazzone | Here's a four-step process for increasing your legal fees, from when and how much, to how to tell your clients. The post Increasing Your Legal Fees: A Four-Step Approach appeared first on Attorney at Work.
Sound Jury Blog
JANUARY 8, 2024
It’s that time of year again when we all make resolutions, stick to them for about two weeks, then go back to our typical pattern and practice. Let’s make this year different! In the spirit of correcting past problems and forging new habits, here’s a list of litigation resolutions – from case intake to closing argument – to put your trial strategy either back on track or to keep it on track.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 9, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published guidelines for examiners today on the topic of enablement in light of the Supreme Court’s May 2023 decision in Amgen v. Sanofi. The Office’s view seems to largely mesh with what our guest authors concluded earlier today—Amgen isn’t getting rid of In re Wands and—at the USPTO at least—the decision has seemingly maintained the status quo.
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Lawmatics
JANUARY 9, 2024
Advances in legal software are rapidly transforming the future of legal technologies. Solutions leveraging automation, AI, and cloud platforms are reshaping law practices of all sizes. But for small and mid-size firms, the most transformative innovations are tools that directly strengthen client relationships, service quality, and firm capabilities.
Attorney at Work
JANUARY 12, 2024
Danielle DavisRoe | Get distractions under control and master some easy time management techniques using tools you already own. The post Dial Down the Distractions: 3 Outlook Tricks to Keep You Focused on Billable Work appeared first on Attorney at Work.
Attorney at Work
JANUARY 9, 2024
Teddy Snyder | Communicating ignorance does not make you sound smart or powerful. The post Innumeracy Strikes Again — and Again appeared first on Attorney at Work.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 9, 2024
Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court did something strange: the Court unanimously affirmed a circuit decision, which had unanimously affirmed a trial court decision. Little about the law seemed ripe for dispute or change, nevertheless, in Amgen v. Sanofi the Supreme Court spoke. Seven months later, innovators and patent practitioners are still scratching their heads.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 8, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court today denied certiorari in Intel v. Vidal, a case that asked the Court to overturn a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruling concerning the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) so-called Fintiv framework. The CAFC’s March 2023 decision said appellate review of whether the PTAB’s discretionary denial rules for inter partes review (IPR) are “arbitrary and capricious” was precluded by Section 314(d) of the patent statute.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 10, 2024
The dominance of Asian tech companies in the U.S. patent space and the impacts of growing backlogs in patent examination were major takeaways from the Top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees and Global 250 Lists, published by IFI CLAIMS on January 9. The patent database developer also released a Top 10 Fastest Growing Technologies list reflecting the strong global popularity of smoking, whether via electrical device or in traditional cigarette form.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 9, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today affirmed two decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that invalidated some claims and upheld others of a patent owned by Personal Genomics Taiwan, Inc. Based on the PTAB’s claim construction, which the CAFC agreed with, the decision held that Pacific Biosciences had failed to prove the prior art taught the limitation of the preamble phrase of claim 1 in one inter partes review, (IPR) but did prove a different prior art
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 9, 2024
As we enter 2024, major policy initiatives are pending at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in Congress aimed at overhauling certain aspects of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice. These initiatives—the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) and PREVAIL Act, respectively, are at a critical point, with elections less than a year away.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 8, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a petition asking the High Court to clarify patent eligibility jurisprudence under Section 101 since its 2014 ruling in Alice Corp. Pty Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l. Realtime Data, LLC asked the Court specifically to address the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s (CAFC’s) August 2023 decision holding 211 of its patent claims ineligible as abstract.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 12, 2024
This week in Other Barks & Bites: OpenAI faces another lawsuit, this time from two journalists alleging copyright infringement; the International Trade Commission (ITC) makes its case before the CAFC to reimpose an import ban on Apple Watches; and OpenAI tells the UK government that it could not make ChatGPT without copyrighted material.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 11, 2024
Relish Labs LLC and the Kroger Company (who own the “Home Chef” brand and mark) petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court this week, asking the Justices to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that held Home Chef had not proven consumers were likely to confuse their marks with Grubhub and Takeaway.com's logo.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 11, 2024
The first week of 2024 was a light one for patent filings. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) had a slightly below average 21 new petitions—all petitions for inter partes review (IPR), while there were only 34 new filings in district court. The PTAB saw new IPRs filed against Advanced Coding (filed by Samsung), XR Communications (filed by Ericsson) and Semiconductor Design (filed by Cadence Design Systems).
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 11, 2024
Harrity & Harrity, LLP employs superstar patent professionals to prepare patent applications for leading global technology companies. We are currently looking for a patent preparation and prosecution attorney or agent, specifically in semiconductor technology areas, to join our team. This position is 100% remote, flexible schedule, and full-time (1600+ hours).
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 8, 2024
On January 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit published an amended opinion and order denying rehearing and rehearing en banc, thus upholding its August reversal of the Northern District of California’s dismissal of a qui tam whistleblower action under the False Claims Act (FCA). The FCA claim was brought by patent attorney Zachary Silbersher against Valeant Pharmaceuticals, predecessor to Canadian drugmaker Bausch Health.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 10, 2024
In the book / movie “The Shining”, the Overlook hotel is haunted by ghosts involved in past wrongs committed on the property, presumably to make the current inhabitants atone for such sins. Notwithstanding this transcendental precedent, Judge Rodney Gilstrap recently declined to extend such a notion to patents subject to Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) licensing related obligations.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 10, 2024
The University of Akron School of Law IP Center is hiring a Visiting Assistant Research Professor. This is a one-year fellowship, renewable for a second year. The job is an entry level position ideal for a recent law grad who wants to work in IP law policy. The Fellow will have an opportunity to deeply engage with current IP law and policy issues and to develop a network with IP lawyers and policy experts.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 10, 2024
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on January 9 to the Department of Commerce and the National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding the Biden Administration’s recent Request for Information Regarding the Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights.
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