November 15, 2011
This post originally appeared here on November 14, 2011, and is reposted here with the author’s permission. In September, I wrote that the America Invents Act’s (“AIA”) main impact upon patent litigation would be the new joinder ruleprohibiting suing multiple, unrelated defendants in a single case. In the two weeks between the Senate’s passage of the [...]
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June 22, 2011
At the beginning of the month, I [spent] several days attending the 9th Annual Rocky Mountain IP & Technology Institute. In addition to two days of excellent continual legal education and meeting many interesting people, I also spoke with in-house counsel from Microsoft and Hewlett Packard about how to limit fees in intellectual property litigation (more on that panel soon). For those who are looking for some high quality continuing legal education, that is in a beautiful location, you should come to the 10th Annual Rocky Mountain IP & Technology Institute next June. It is one of the two best CLE programs I have ever attended.
IP licensing luminaries Nimmer and Dodd spoke at length on current IP licensing issues. It was an excellent and enlightening discussion. At first blush, it is not directly litigation related, however, I found the session very valuable for the settlement work that I do, as well as for the IP licensing portion of my practice. So, here are some of the highlights.
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