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"Intellectual Property Litigation" - Winter 2008 SBOT Litigation Section "Advocate" magazine

By Michael C. Smith

You can tell how far behind I am when I post on issues of a quarterly magazine back to back.  The latest Advocate issue, which I just saw yesterday in our Litigation Section meeting, is "Intellectual Property Litigation" and has sections on patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law.  The magazine is available only in paper form to subscribers at the moment - when the next issue comes out this one will be posted online.
The patent law section contains articles on the scope of patentability, patent remedies, reexamination, and a feature article The Eastern District Phenomenon by former Eastern District Chief Judge and Fifth Circuit Judge Robert M. Parker.  Judge Parker's article contains useful numbers of patent verdicts, post-verdict rulings, filings, and others items of interest to at least one or two people.  There's also an article (which I haven't read yet) on recent Supreme Court "restrictions on patent rights and remedies" that looks like good reading.
Just another reason to join the Litigation Section...

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).