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"Recent Developments in the Eastern District of Texas: How They Affect Patent Law, E-Commerce and the Internet": ABA Section of Business Law Spring Meeting - Dallas, Texas April 10-12, 2008

By Michael Smith

I posted a couple of days ago on the panel I am chairing in Arlington Virginia this Friday on patent litigation in the Eastern District of Texas at the ABA's IP seminar.  In a truly bizarre twist of scheduling, I am presenting another paper on basically the same subject at the ABA's Business Law seminar less than 24 hours later in Dallas. 
Unfortunately, the papers have almost nothing in common - I'm really not quite sure how I managed that, because it certainly wasn't my intent.  The first is essentially a lengthy summary of major Eastern District patent cases in the past year, with a few older cases tossed in where needed to illustrate a practice point.  It is for the most part basically the 2007 update to the caselaw portion of the Eastern District Update paper that I presented  March of last year at the State Bar of Texas IP section's seminar in Dallas.  The Dallas paper, on the other hand, is more focused on appellate treatment of Eastern District of Texas cases in the past year, since the nut of that topic is any major developments in patent law, e-commerce of the Internet which have some sort of Eastern District of Texas connection.
Next week I'm chairing the State Bar's Causes of Action seminar in Dallas, where I'm presenting my IP Causes of Action paper - I'll post more on that later but it was really an eye-opener how much the patent section of the paper had to be revised to accommodate the new caselaw since I last gave it in 2006 at this same seminar. 

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).