Patent Law

AIPLA Submits Amicus Brief in Bilski Case, Arguing for Broad Patentable Subject Matter
Here is a Link to the AIPLA Brief in the Bilski case. My post on this case is found here. This is from the AIPLA post on the case: AIPLA on April 7, 2008, filed an amicus brief with the en banc Federal Circuit, arguing that it is improper to apply the subject matter categories at 35 U...

AIPLA Model Patent Jury Instructions
The AIPLA Model Jury Instructions are "provided as general assistance for the litigation of patent issues."

NASP 2008 Annual Meeting - 3
Prior S2KM blog posts about the NASP 2008 Annual Meeting: NASP 2008 Annual Meeting - 1 Summarizes the NASP presentations which S2KM attended; Highlights the questions S2KM addressed to NASP's structured settlement panel...

NASP 2007 Annual Meeting - 1
The National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP) hosted its 2007 Annual Meeting October 18-19 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. This author was privileged to participate...

AALS: "It will be possible for someone to attend any part of the [annual] meeting without setting foot in the Hyatt"
As previously reported at The Proposed AALS Meeting Boycott: Much Ado About Something, But What?, some law school groups wanted to boycott the January 2009 AALS annual meeting because the owner of one of the two meeting sites was a...

ICN Annual Meeting in Kyoto
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Next week (April 14-16) is the ICN annual meeting of competition agencies in lovely Kyoto, Japan. I will serve as a rapporteur for the event. I have included the meeting agenda...

AIPLA Releases Latest Model Patent Jury Instructions
In light of changes to patent law since the last revision (2005), the AIPLA recently published its Model Patent Jury Instructions. The current revision includes case law throughDecember 31, 2007...

Medical Errors
Annual Cost to Insurers Nearly $1.5 Billion

US Auto
Meeting Notification Regarding $10 Million Class Action Settlement.