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America Invents Act: Impact On Patent Processing And Litigation Strategies
Editor: Please tell us about your background and experience. Moore: I have been a patent attorney for over 20 years, focusing predominantly on litigation in the Hatch-Waxman area, pharmaceutical and electrical/mechanical areas. I also have considerable experience in patent prosecution. I...
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Burned Again? Cat’s Paw Liability Post-Staub
In March 2011, the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision in Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 131 S. Ct. 1186 (2011), resolving a split in the lower courts over the reach of the so-called “cat’s paw” theory of liability. The “cat's paw” refers to a...
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Judges Are People, Too: Getting To Know Your Judge By Doing A Judge Study
Introduction A few years ago, an attorney for whom I had prepared a judge study sent me a T-shirt that read, “A Good Lawyer Knows The Law, A Great Lawyer Knows The Judge.” While the T-shirt was surely tongue-in-cheek and was meant to suggest something underhanded on the part of the...
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