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Federal Circuit Affirms $500K Sanction for Litigation Misconduct
The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court decision in Eon-Net LP v. Flagstar Bancorp that assessed almost $500,000 in attorney fees against a patent licensing and litigation firm for litigation misconduct, including failure to preserve documents. And the court went further back in time than Rambus to affirm the order.'Litigation prenup' to be unveiled at Pepperdine conference
At a Pepperdine University School of Law conference in Malibu, Calif., a Boston litigator and a prominent alternative dispute resolution organization are rolling out a model contractual agreement that companies can use to limit litigation costs.Digital copyright act needs rebooting
THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM Copyright Act of 1998 hasn't worked out the way consumers or copyright owners planned: It has neither stopped piracy nor preserved the long-established fair use of protected works, lawyers on both sides of the issue say.To be sure, the movie and music industries have said that without DMCA's penalties for piracy, the DVD market would have died.View more book results for the query "Cisco Systems Inc"
Intuit Taxed $120 Million by Intellectual Ventures
The secretive patent-holding company seems to have extracted a major licensing deal from the TurboTax maker, another sign of Intellectual Ventures' increasing muscle.According to Zusha Elinson at The Recorder, Verizon agreed to pay Intellectual Ventures as much as $350 million in a 2008 deal. Now Verizon is using one of IV's patents to strike back at TiVo in a patent fight in an East Texas federal court.
2012 was the year of billion-dollar wins in patent cases, but the largest award so far this year has come in an antitrust case against Dow Chemical. On Wednesday, a judge trebled a $400 million jury verdict in a class action in which the company was accused of fixing prices for the chemical urethane.
The Risks of Failing to Preserve Patent Prosecution Files
A recent New York court decision addresses a unique patent law remedy for patent prosecution file destruction that could limit patent infringement damages, writes lawyer Mark Michels.A Buyer's Guide to Law Firm Software
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