Steven G Spears

December 14, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

What must you plead about the asserted claims and the accused products? Must you plead facts plausibly showing that each claim element is met?

By Steven G. Spears

18 minute read

November 10, 2003 | National Law Journal

Before 1993, a U.S. company pre-emptively taking a truly foreign company to court to seek a declaration of noninfringement or invalidity of a patent was limited to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Now, a federal rule gives U.S. companies an infrequently used option of bringing such actions (and other federal law claims) in their home districts, even if the foreign patentee has no contacts at all within that state.

By Steven G. Spears and Michelle C. Replogle

9 minute read