Practice Management

As Companies Start To Feel the Economic Downturn, Law Firms Are Beginning To Offer Alternative Billing Arrangements to Their Clients
Law.com recently published the article called ?Billing Gets Creative in Souring Economy?. Julie Kay, a staff reporter for The National Law Journal, discusses how the current economic downturn has led many law firms to start offering their clients creative and...

How Firms Are Coping With the Downturn
Large law firms are finding different ways of coping with the downturn in the mergers and acquisition market and overall weak economy. Bloomberg reports that firms are finding work overseas, with deal volume in Asia, Latin American and the Middle...

Economic Downturn Roundup for Law Firms
Here's a roundup of recent news stories on the impact of the economic downturn on law firms: End of the billable hour? Could the billable hour become the next victim of the economic downturn? After all, cash-strapped clients are no...

271Blog discusses patent quality
In a post titled --USPTO Patent Quality - It's Not As Bad As You Think --, the 271blog discusses the recent work by James Malackowski and Jonathan Barney from Ocean Tomo.LBE has been discussing the bogus issues with patent quality for years in papers in JIP, JPTOS, and IPT...

Bits and Bytes
Patent Case Management: Professor Peter Menell (Berkeley) has been working with several top patent litigators to develop a "comprehensive patent case management guide" for federal judges...

Big general practice firms for patent litigation, IP specialists for patent prosecution
According to IP Law & Business? research last year, ?IP specialty firms accounted for only four of the 31 firms that handled three or more IP litigation matters in the U.S. for the world's 50 most innovative companies...

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.

Petroleum Mishaps
BP settles $9.75 million mis-management suit.