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3: Preparing Your Inside Team - Preservation, Privilege, Potential Pitfalls -This is the third in a series of articles that explores considerations and suggested actions for in-house counsel who are inexperienced in patent...more
On November 22, 2023, United States Magistrate Judge Victoria Reznik (S.D.N.Y.) provided some rare insight into “the applicability and scope of the attorney-client privilege as it relates to patent counsel.” Op. at 1. Judge...more
On August 8, 2023, Judge Katharine H. Parker (S.D.N.Y.) denied Spectrum Dynamics Medical Limited’s (“Spectrum”) motion to compel the production of documents that it argued fell under the crime-fraud exception to the...more
Enforcing a patent can be expensive and time consuming. Patent litigation funding, also known as patent litigation financing, is one way patent owners can protect their rights without incurring the unwanted expense of...more
The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado granted a motion in limine to preclude testimony from corporate executives about their “business understanding” regarding infringement because the defendant previously...more
On September 19, 2019, U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall denied an appeal by the defendant in a litigation to correct the inventorship of patents of rulings by Magistrate Judges Gary R. Brown and Peggy Kuo that the...more
In Limestone Memory Systems LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc. et al., the Discovery Master ruled that, under 9th Circuit law, pre-suit, patent analysis documents qualified for immunity from discovery under the work product...more
In a recent opinion, the Texas Supreme Court resolved a question of interest to patent attorneys—is there a privilege for communications between a patent agent and his client? In re Silver, No. 16-0682, 2018 Tex. LEXIS 171...more
On Friday, February 23, 2018, the Texas Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling that attorney-client privilege does not extend to patent agents. The ruling, bound to reverberate throughout the intellectual property...more
The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued a new rule on attorney-client privilege for trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on November 7, 2017. The new rule takes effect December 7, 2017. The new rule...more
Earlier this week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) published a Final Rule regarding the scope of the attorney-client privilege in proceedings before the PTAB. The Rule states that...more
Jang v. Boston Scientific Corporation (No. 2016-1575, 9/29/17) (Prost, O'Malley, Chen) - Chen, J. Affirming denial of motion for JMOL, vacatur of verdict of infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, and judgment of...more
Litigation today often involves multiple defendants facing a common adversary — whether it is patent litigation against the same patent holder or tort litigation against the same plaintiff. Multidefendant litigation can...more
As we implement the Eversheds Sutherland combination and expand our ability to serve clients around the globe, our US and international teams are working together to analyze issues impacting clients doing business in multiple...more
After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its tenth annual list of top patent stories. For 2016, we identified twenty stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe...more
In a significant ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has recognized a new privilege shielding communications between patent applicants and their non-lawyer patent agents. The issue was one of first...more
Although the attorney-client privilege does not protect historical facts, any facts "created" during or in anticipation of litigation can present a difficult analysis. In Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Merck & Co., Case No....more
[W]e find that the unique roles of patent agents, the congressional recognition of their authority to act, the Supreme Court’s characterization of their activities as the practice of law, and the current realities of patent...more
In In re Queen’s University At Kingston, a divided panel of the Federal Circuit recognized a limited “attorney”-client privilege for patent agents. The majority’s decision to recognize a patent agent privilege is based...more
On March 7, 2016, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recognized “a patent-agent privilege extending to communications with non-attorney patent agents when those agents are acting within the agent’s authorized...more
Providing a rare glimpse into a Federal Circuit judge’s views on the rules of professional conduct governing conflicts of interest, on February 26, 2016, Federal Circuit Judge William Bryson, sitting as a trial judge, denied...more
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Merus B.V. Case Number: 1:14-cv-01650-KBF Judge Forrest, having determined that Regeneron’s production of a memorandum discussing prior art was a waiver of attorney-client...more