In September of 2007, plaintiff Matthew Pequignot “brought a qui tam action…alleging that Solo had falsely marked its products with ‘797 and ‘569 patent numbers for the purpose of deceiving the public, despite knowing that those patents had expired.” In August of 2009, the court granted Solo summary judgment, citing “no intent to deceive and [...]
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In this case, the District Court considered Lexington Insurance Company’s motion for sanctions and reviewed the magistrate judge’s previous recommendation of dismissal sanctions and reimbursement costs. Bray & Gillespie Management, LLC, after it was discovered that it failed to produce records, claimed it was unaware of an automatic function of the business’s computerized account management [...] The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System conducted a survey of Chief Legal Officers and General Counsel “in an effort to capture how businesses experience the American civil justice process.” The results, outlined in this report, suggest that litigants are concerned with the cost (both monetary and otherwise) of e-discovery. The results [...] “Google” was added to the Miriam-Webster Dictionary in 2006 and with Google Books on the horizon, it comes as no surprise that Google has entered another frontier—the world of patents. On Wednesday, Secretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office David Kappos announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office [...] |
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