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International Edition

Orrick overhauls Asia strategy after partner exodus in China and Hong Kong

US firm aims to rebuild in Asia after nine-partner team exits to Morgan Lewis
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

USPTO Suspends Former Niro Junior IP Attorney for 18 Months

Former Niro lawyer David Mahalek represented Intellect Wireless, which was found to have misled the PTO to obtain its patents related to displaying caller ID on wireless phones.
9 minute read

Texas Lawyer

EDTX's Rodney Gilstrap Is Still America's Most Popular Patent Judge

While patent infringement filings are down both nationally and in Texas according to a recent report, there's still no question who the King of America's patent docket is: U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of Marshall.
9 minute read

Legaltech News

Eastern Texas Still Patent Case Champ, According to Lex Machina Data

The Eastern District of Texas is still the overwhelming forum of choice in patent litigation, with 37 percent of all patent cases filed there last year.
19 minute read

The Recorder

Eastern Texas Still Patent Case Champ, According to Lex Machina Data

Overall patent filings dropped in 2016, a trend analysts attributed to a change in federal pleading requirements in December 2015.
19 minute read

Litigation Daily

A Big Law Prognosis for FCPA, IP and White-Collar Enforcement Under Trump

Don't expect a lot of record-setting penalties or “first-ever” prosecutions coming out of the Trump administration—but litigators who specialize in False Claims Act and IP cases should stay busy.
12 minute read

The Recorder

Apple Snuffs Out NPE Patents That Almost Cost Company $533M

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday rejected three mobile payment patents that led an Eastern District of Texas jury to hit Apple with a $533 million verdict in 2015.
11 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Suits

Amgen scores a rare patent injunction, African-American Secret Service agents land a $24 million settlement, and more.

44 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Patents and the AIA in a US Supreme Court With Gorsuch

Patents have had unusual attention from the U.S. Supreme Court recently. In addition to high-profile cases like Alice v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014), that dramatically changes the landscape for technology-based patents, Samsung v. Apple, 137 S. Ct. 429, 431 (2016), that has the potential to dramatically change the landscape for damages in design patent infringement, and Life Technologies v. Promega, 2017 U.S. LEXIS 1428 (U.S. Feb. 22, 2017), which tests the limits of liability under U.S. law for infringement abroad, the court is poised to consider whether the post-grant procedures of the America Invents Act (AIA) are constitutional.
19 minute read

International Edition

The Asian Lawyer Announces Winners for 2017 Asia Legal Awards

Davis Polk & Wardwell and Korean firm Bae, Kim & Lee are among the top winners of the fourth annual celebration for the regions leading firms and individuals.
124 minute read

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