• Closed Qualcomm Office Creates Venue In IP Row, Judge Says

    Closed Qualcomm Office Creates Venue In IP Row, Judge Says … A Florida federal judge found on Thursday that Qualcomm’s shuttered office in Orlando, which closed “within weeks” before a smartphone patent suit was filed against it, was sufficient to establish venue for the San Diego-based company.

     
  • Blank Rome to Shuffle Leaders in 2019

    Palmer has litigated in a wide range of areas, including class actions, patent and intellectual property, fraud, corporate shareholder litigation, … bed at night thinking about client problems” but plans to shift most of his focus as managing partner to improving the law firm and working with all the attorneys.

     
  • Fed. Circ. Rules Gilstrap Wrongly Freed Google From IP Suit

    Law360 (March 12, 2018, 5:26 PM EDT) — The Federal Circuit on Monday gave new life to a patent lawsuit over Google LLC messaging services, finding that Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas needs to re-evaluate whether SimpleAir Inc. is suing the search engine giant over simply …

     
  • EU Says Pay-For-Delay Drug Settlements Still Down

    … settlements between brand pharmaceutical companies and their generic competitors to restrict generic entry into the market “have stabilized at a low level,” European Commission antitrust regulators concluded in a report looking at deals reached in 2016 to resolve drug patent infringement lawsuits.

     
  • Berkeley Law Launches Judicial Institute Led by Jeremy Fogel

    It will build upon the Bay Area law school’s existing judicial education program, which focuses intellectual property seminars for judges. The school’s Center for Law & Technology is also in the process of developing a series of technology webinars in collaboration with the Federal Judicial Center.

     
  • Caldwell Cassady & Curry Sponsoring SMU Lyle School of Engineering Lecture Series

    DALLAS, March 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The Dallas-based intellectual property and business litigation law firm Caldwell Cassady & Curry is proud to announce the firm’s sponsorship of the Distinguished Lecture Series in Engineering Entrepreneurship presented by the Lyle School of Engineering at …

     
  • Looking for a patent attorney

    Details. We need a certified patent attorney to conduct patent research, patent draft and patent filing for our new IoT product’s utility patent. Project Type: One-time project …

     
  • Three from The Lanier Law Firm Honored by Texas Rising Stars

    … as well as due diligence in mergers and acquisitions, and discovery, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial support in several patent litigation matters. The Texas Rising Stars list recognizes the outstanding work of the state’s top attorneys age 40 and younger or who have practiced law for no more than 10... Continue reading

     
  • Divided Patent Infringement: The Federal Circuit Doubles Down on a New Standard

    The district court went on to hold that in the absence of a showing that any entity has directly infringed Tropp’s patents, any claim against Travel Sentry for indirect infringement fails as a matter of law because under the prevailing law, liability for indirect infringement can arise only in the... Continue reading

     
  • Finjan Your Claims to Patent Eligibility

    On January 10, 2018 the Federal Circuit (hereinafter the ‘Court’) released its decision in Finjan v. Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Finjan v. Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (case no. 2016-2520; January 2018)). In Finjan, the Court took the opportunity to further clarify the line between inventions that are patent eligible …