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Global Patent Offices Form Highways for Applicants
As most technological innovation has global applicability, patent offices worldwide are beginning to cooperate to decrease duplicative work and reduce backlogs. To date, the most publicized and well-received collaboration of efforts among patent offices is the Patent Prosecution Highway.How a Small Firm Litigator Beat Microsoft
Although a $115 million verdict in April against Microsoft Corp. was a huge win for a small technology shop in Michigan, attorney Ernie L. Brooks seems downright bashful about the victory he secured for his client.IP Litigation: Poised for Takeoff?
The top firms in IP Law & Business' seventh annual patent litigation survey showed a slight bump up in work last year, but lawyers are already bracing themselves for a new wave of patent litigation following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in KSR v. Teleflex. Combined with the justices' other recent patent rulings and the potential for patent reform in 2007, the litigation landscape has suddenly been transformed into uncharted territory. Are these chart-topping firms ready for the journey?PTO to open its first satellite office, in Detroit
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office plans to open its first-ever satellite office next year, in Detroit, to help cut the mammoth patent application backlog and provide an economic boost to the economically depressed motor city.IP Litigators: Worth Their Weight in Gold?
Patent litigators are a must-have for firms, and they're willing to pay for them. Changing technology, consolidation of industries and the increasingly cross-border nature of IP battles are expanding the size and scope of patent cases. The median cost to take a patent case through trial increased from $2 million in 1995 to $5 million in 2005, according to the American Intellectual Property Law Association, which means that firms are missing a potential fee bonanza if they don't have enough lawyers on hand.Calif. Federal Court Solicits Feedback on Local IP Procedures
The Northern District of California federal court wants to know what's wrong with its local patent rules. Or what's right, for that matter. For the first time since the widely imitated rules were created, the district is soliciting feedback on them. Designed to press parties to distill their arguments and present them plainly early in the pretrial phase, the rules have been lauded for speeding up a process that tends to be lengthy. But they are not without their critics in the intellectual property bar.IP Verdicts Exceed $1.3 Billion
As figures from last year's verdicts show, companies are prepared to go to the mat to protect intangible assets.Trending Stories
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