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• Category: - US - Southwest
  • Case dismissed as sanction for misrepresentations
• Category: assignment
  • Federal Circuit Reminds Us: "Will Assign" isn't an Assignment
  • Patents as Collateral
• Category: CBM
  • Guest Post: PTAB Partial Institution of IPR and CBM Review Violates the AIA– But There Is a Simple Fix
  • USPTO Rule Making: Codify SAS, Eliminate Presumption in Favor of Petitioner
• Category: collateral
  • Patents as Collateral
• Category: conflict of interest
  • Brilliant New Book on Ethics in Prosecution 2015 Edition Out Now!
  • Federal Circuit Grants Motion to Disqualify Jones Day on Appeal
  • Federal Circuit: Firm Cannot Switch Sides in Patent Case
  • Undisclosed Conflict of Interest Causes Unenforceable Arbitration Clause, Disgorgement of Some Fees
• Category: Ethics
  • "Partnership for Innovation" -- big companies seeking patent reform
  • (Revised) Akin Gump Found to Have Breached Duty of Loyalty to Client: Important Lesson for Fee Agreements
  • $50m Conflict of Interest in Prosecution Case being Tried in Texas
  • 11th Circuit: Because Client Loses Faith in Lawyer, and so Lawyer Quits, Lawyer Still gets Contingent Fee
  • 285 at the Supreme Court
  • 285, Claim Construction and Lessons from Fee Awards
  • 2d Edition of Ethical Issues in Patent Litigation now available!
  • 35 USC 282
  • 9th Circuit en banc follows others and adopts Octane for Trademark Fee Shifting
  • A 2012 Connecticut Informal Ethics Opinion that is a Doozy!
  • A Great Lesson on Close Reading, Textualism, and Civility...
  • A Law Prof's Widow Looks Back
  • A Professional, Effective Cease and Desist Letter
  • A random thought about CLS Bank's Oral Argument
  • A Random Thought on IPR, BRC, and Life
  • A Resource for In-House Lawyers
  • A September CLE in Salt Lake City with Dennis, Me, and Other Important People!
  • A short observation about Ultramercial v. Hulu
  • A trap for the unwary: Indemnity obligations may create privity for purposes of IPR
  • ABA Ethics Opinion on Replying-to-all When Opposing Counsel CC's Their Client
  • ABA Ethics Opinion on Virtual Law Practice:
  • ABA Issues Opinion Addressing Conflicts Arising out of Relationships with Opposing Counsel
  • ABA Issues Opinion Addressing Disputes over Fee Division
  • ABA Issues Opinion on Dividing Contingent Fees with Prior Counsel
  • ABA Issues Opinion on Lawyers' Obligations after Electronic Data Breach
  • ABA Opinion Limits Ability of Firms to Restrict Departing Lawyers
  • ABA Seeking Comments on Rules about Registration of In-House Counsel and Limited Recognition of Foreign-Based Lawyers
  • ABA: If moving to withdraw for non-payment of fees, try to say as little as possible to the court.
  • ABA: Lawyers Can Look at Jurors' Facebook Pages, But Not Try to Friend Them.
  • Access to Prior Art Initiative of the USPTO to Ease Importation of Prior Art References from Parent Cases
  • Administrative Suspension
  • Adverse Inference Order for Spoliation Entered Against Samsung in Apple Patent Suit
  • Adversity in Patent Litigation
  • AIPLA comes out in favor of USPTO rule for patent agent-client privilege