Lisa Shuchman

August 15, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

When a startup called CarShield was hit with a patent infringement lawsuit, its founders got mad. They also got free representation from students at Brooklyn Law School.

By Lisa Shuchman

5 minute read

August 11, 2014 | Law.com

Vermont can proceed with its lawsuit against the much-maligned patent holder MPHJ Technology in state court, the Federal Circuit ruled Monday, handing a victory to state AG William Sorrell and to other states that have passed consumer protection laws to thwart patent trolls.

By Lisa Shuchman

4 minute read

August 11, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

New Zealand may become one of the next countries to adopt a plain-packaging law, which would require that cigarettes and other tobacco products be sold without any branding or distinctive trademarks.

By Lisa Shuchman

2 minute read

August 08, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

A new study found that patent applications filed at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office between 1996 and 2005 weren't granted as often as expected.

By Lisa Shuchman

6 minute read

August 07, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Congress may have killed off patent reform legislation this year, but almost one-third of the country's 50 states have enacted their own legislation that could help companies combat patent trolls.

By Lisa Shuchman

6 minute read

August 04, 2014 | Litigation Daily

State-sponsored France Brevets and its lawyers at McKool Smith won a fight over their preferred U.S. battleground, persuading a judge to keep a patent infringement suit against HTC and LG Electronics in the plaintiffs-friendly Eastern District of Texas.

By Lisa Shuchman

4 minute read

August 01, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

U.S. District Judge Jose Linares has granted Clairol's motion to dismiss a personal injury lawsuit lodged against it by a New Jersey salon owner and her customers, but is giving the plaintiffs through August to "correct the pleading deficiencies" in an amended complaint.

By Jennifer Genova, Lisa Shuchman and Andrew Ramonas

6 minute read

August 01, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Canada's Conservative government slipped in some radical changes to the country's trademark regime. Normally sober IP attorneys are feeling angry and betrayed.

By Lisa Shuchman

11 minute read

July 31, 2014 | Litigation Daily

It's been three months since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on fee-shifting in patent infringement lawsuits. But battles over how to apply the new standards are just beginning, as two companies at the center of the high court's rulings illustrated this week.

By Lisa Shuchman

4 minute read

July 31, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office knowingly wasted and misused more than $5 million in federal resources by paying salaries to paralegals who had little work to do.

By Lisa Shuchman

5 minute read