By Sarah Fendrick -- On Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was closed due to weather. As a result of the closing, the USPTO will consider each of Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010 to be a "Federal holiday within the District of Columbia" under 35 U.S.C. ...

Governor Rendell has nominated Lewis Wood Wetzel, Esquire of Dallas and Joseph Van Jura, Esquire of Kingston to fill the open judgeships on the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. It is hoped that these nominees will be whisked through the nomination process quickly so they can assist with the bac ...

ResQNet.com, Inc. v. Lansa, Inc., No. 08-1365 (Fed. Cir., February 5, 2010)Lansa appealed an award of damages for patent infringement from the Southern District of New York, arguing that the evidence and expert testimony relating to damages was erroneous, leading to an inflated 12.5% royalty rate on ...

In a post on my political blog, I discussed the president's plan to hold a bipartisan session on health insurance reform, which at face value seems to represent an offer to mediate or negotiate a compromise, or at least to invite the Republicans back into the process. The Republican leadership has ...

Congrats to my Alma Mater!   PRESS RELEASE February 9, 2010 For Immediate Release Contact David N. Hefner Office of Communications and Marketing Walter F. George School of Law Mercer University 478.301.5000 hefner_dn@law.mercer.edu www.law.mercer.edu   ...

San Francisco - Today a federal appeals court rejected a government claim of "lobbyist privacy" to hide the identities of individuals who pressured Congress to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the government's warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordi ...

The George Washington University Law School is hosting a conference, Aggregate Litigation: Critical Perspectives, that may be of interest to our readers. Description and details after the jump: Aggregate litigation lies at the core of American exceptionalism in litigation and...

Justice Department Opposes New Google Book SettlementThis posting was written by Darius Sturmer, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.Despite the substantial progress reflected in the proposed amended settlement agreement in The Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc., the U.S. Department of Jus ...

The Illinois Review Board has recommended a 30 day suspension of an elected state's attorney for litigation misconduct. The board's synopsis of the case: [The prosecutor], the State's Attorney of Wayne County, was charged with misconduct arising out of his...

Amy Alanis and Joshua Molina are living every parent’s nightmare – the death of a child. On the evening of February 1, 2010, Ms. Alanis, Mr. Molina, and their 13-month old son, Joshua (J.J.), together with two friends, were heading home on the northwest side of Chicago when Putiporn Kaewmooka smash ...