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January 2009
Seen and Unseen Cost of Patents
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That Unsettling Feeling
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The overwhelming majority of cases settle. What varies is when, how and on what terms they do. Maybe it has to do with a weakening economy, but we’re seeing a definite trend for defendants (or more likely their lawyers) to dig in their heels and fight, rather than take the sensible approach of reaching a…
Houston, We Have A Problem…*
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Count me among the latest to question whether the Eastern District of Texas is still THE venue for bringing plaintiff’s patent cases. A “Rocket Docket” it ain’t.
We’ve filed a fair number of cases in the Eastern District over the years. Although things used to move with dispatch, in one of our latest, the first…