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JMBM OC Litigation Newsletter Spring 2011 Patent False Marking Claims Prove Largely To Be A Nuisance Download the PDF: JMBM OC Litigation Newsletter–Patent False Marking Claims Prove Largely To Be A Nuisance Section 292 of the Patent Statute (Title 35) provides a civil penalty for falsely marking goods as being covered by a patent and […]
An article by Mark Adams titled "Preparing Your Witness" on how to prepare an expert witness for testimony, was published in The Recorder’s special report on Litigation. This article was also featured in Law Technology News.
An article by Mark Adams on jury selection, "The Science and Art of Advocacy," was published as a special feature in the April 2011 edition of Orange County Lawyer. In the article, Mark details successful strategies for choosing members of a jury and discusses why jury selection is an important part of trying a case […]
Matthew S. Kenefick’s article entitled, “Protecting Ownership When A Host Property Enters Foreclosure,” was published in the February 2011 edition of Solar Industry Magazine (Vol. 4, No.1). The article discusses the importance of a properly structured power purchase agreement to ensure that a building owner will not lose his solar energy system to a lender […]
In Federal Appeals Court Affirms the Denial of A123’s Motion to Reopen, Stuart Tubis reports on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s affirmation of the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, which had denied A123’s motion to reopen and dismissed the court’s declaratory judgment against Hydro-Quebec (“HQ”). […]
Orange County Litigation Newsletter, Fall 2010 Size Them Up: Picking – or Rather, “Excluding” – a Jury Clarence Darrow, one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians, wrote in “How to Pick A Jury,” Esquire, May 1936: “It is obvious that if a litigant discovered one of his dearest friends in the jury […]
Patent Holders: Do Not Forget Taxes JMBM attorney Stan Gibson discusses… What patent holders and inventors need to know before licensing, acquiring, or settling a lawsuit involving intellectual property There are complex tax issues surrounding the licensing of intellectual property and the settlement of lawsuits regarding intellectual property. Therefore, the tax issues impacting a particular […]
Pause Before Sending: Using Unenforceable Non-Competes can be Very Costly Had STAAR Surgical Company (Nasdaq: STAA) (“STAAR”) obtained sound legal advice before it sent three letters to its competitors, STAAR might have saved itself $11.4 million. In separate, two-month long jury trials, our trial team including myself, Eudeen Chang and Monica Vu of Jeffer Mangels, […]
Served Today, Trial Tomorrow You could be in trial tomorrow on a case that was filed last week. This has been a surprising reality for clients – and lawyers. A special provision in the California Corporations Code Section 709, requires a trial to begin within five days once an action to determine the validity of […]
Protecting Ownership of Your Property: The Importance of Employment Agreements A recent decision from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Stanford University v. Roche, 516 F.3d 1003 (Fed. Cir. 2009), highlights the importance of employment agreements in protecting the ownership of intellectual property. In Roche, the Federal Circuit faced the issue of whether Stanford University […]
