Imagine this: You are a patent attorney who has devoted years of your life to pursuing an education in engineering and law, as well as developing, patenting, and licensing your own inventions. After finding in patent law the perfect coexistence for your two professional passions, invention and law, you are […]
The Hatch-Waxman Act provides a mandatory thirty-month stay on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) when a patent infringement suit is filed. The Act includes a provision for a district court to shorten or extend the Act’s thirty-month stay on FDA approval […]
Markman has remarkably quickly become the heart of almost every patent lawsuit. Very few patent cases go to trial: 98% either settle or are decided on summary judgment. … According to a search conducted February 24, 2009, via Stanford IP Litigation Clearinghouse, lexmachina.stanford.edu, 446 of the 24,307 patent cases […]
From 1970 through the 1990?s, litigation in East Texas was plentiful for personal injury attorneys in the district. In the late 1990?s after the passage of tort reform in Texas which set a cap on punitive damages, the number of personal injury cases on the dockets of East Texas Courts […]