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Historic intellectual property ruling could validate open licenses
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Mann Law Group Wins $1.3 Million Jury Verdict in Favor Of Seattle Professional Photographer
Today a Seattle jury awarded Seattle professional photographer Lloyd Shugart a $1.3 Million verdict following a three day jury trial. Philip P. Mann of the Mann Law Group was lead trial counsel for Mr. Shugart.
The case arose when Mr. Shugart discovered that his client, Propet USA, Inc., a wholesale supplier of shoes, had been
The Ultimate Monopoly
Competition in an open market is a good thing, or so we’ve been told. And, in an admittedly counter-intuitive way, the patent system itself promotes competition and choice by enabling small players with better ideas to compete effectively with the big boys. So why, then, shouldn’t healthy competition be brought to the realm of jurisprudence? Particularly at the appellate level? Even more particularly, how about at the level of, say, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit? Hmmm….
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We Dodged a Bullet!
Today the Supreme Court decided NOT to hear the LabCorp v. Metabolite case after all.
Good thing!
Patent law is confused enough already without the Good Justices weighing in on matters scientific.
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Promote the Progress?
A recent blog entry at Patently-O discusses the economics of so-called “patent thickets” (which, I gather, is the new name for what used to be called “a crowded art”). There’s quite a bit of detailed and fascinating discussion concerning, among other things, the recent ebay decision and how patent owners in such a “thicket” will
Citation To “Non-Precedential” Opinions To Be Permitted. It’s About Time.
One of my pet peeves has been the rule against even mentioning so-called “non-precedential” or “unpublished” opinions in briefs filed with federal appellate courts. Dennis Crouch and Law.com are both reporting that the Supreme Court has now voted to change long-standing rule and allow citation to such previously off-limits decisions. It’s about time.
This whole
Mr. Bolt Speaks His Mind
Hmmm, here’s an interesting comment I received today from concerned reader, john.bolt@gmail.com:
“And how does your view relate to the millions you spent of LizardTech’s money on patent litigation, which was unjustified to begin with and a complete loss anyway? Can you spell hypocrisy?”
Well, I can spell a number of words, but I don’t
Anyone else…
getting the sense that the patent system is facing serious problems these days? When I got into this game in 1983, the then-newly-formed Federal Circuit was supposed to bring uniformity, predictability and even respectability to the patent system. And it did — for a while. Under former Chief Judge Markey, the Federal Circuit’s decisions made
In Defense of Contingent Fee Patent Lawyers
Many thanks to Steve Nipper, who, on today’s “rethink(ip)” blog, posts a link to Joseph Hosteny’s recent “Litigators Corner” article in the August, 2005 issue of IP Today. Many thanks also to Mr. Hosteny for airing some perhaps unpleasant truths about what goes on inside large law firms.
In case anyone wonders