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Litigation data feeds can often be overwhelming for law firms. Valuable time is taken to manually sift through cases, often, with no access to underlying sources or materials. Litigation feeds should be easier to manage and read, with links to complaints and docket sheets that can lead to actionable insights a firm can use to better serve their clients.
With this goal in mind, Docket Alarm built a solution that combines the power of an email processing system with an adaptable litigation docket research tool.
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Docket Alarm is excited to announce the release of visual search
history, allowing you to easily track and browse your past research activity. Having
search history at your fingertips means you never have to waste time reconstructing
a previous search or digging up a document you previously found. If you find a
great case or formulate a good search string, it will be automatically saved in
your history log.
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Docket Alarm's latest article, Gender Analytics: Using Litigation Data to
Evaluate Law Firm Diversity, explores how legal analytics can be used to conduct an in depth analysis of gender imbalances at law firms. By analyzing the gender of attorney appearances, Docket Alarm's analytics use litigation data to identify firms that are making a real commitment to gender diversity.
Read the full article at Patently-O.
Read the full article at Patently-O.
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On March 30th,
the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against drug manufacturer Endo
Pharmaceuticals, alleging that Endo is paying generic drug manufacturers in order to
delay the release of lower cost generic versions of their drugs, Opana ER and
Lidoderm.
Generic drugs
come to market when the patents on name brand drugs expire.
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The Supreme Court announced Monday that
it would agree
to hear part of an appeal filed by Samsung seeking to overturn a $548
million damages award granted to Apple last year. Aside from finally closing
the door on this five-year saga between Apple and Samsung, SCOTUS’s decision is
newsworthy because it’s the first case before the Court involving design
patents since 1894. See Dunlop v.
Schofield, 152 U.S. 244 (1894).
The Court agreed
to hear arguments regarding whether Samsung is liable for all profits from the
sale of phones that infringed on Apple’s design patents, totaling $399 million
dollars, or whether they are liable only for the portion of those profits
attributable to the role those protected design elements played in actual phone
sales.
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From August 29 to September 6, 2015, servers operated by the
United States Copyright Office, were down. For more than eight days, hundreds of
applicants had to jump through hoops to file a copyright.
The Copyright Office’s electronic filing system, known as
“eCO”, was taken offline “to accommodate a scheduled annual power outage to
allow routine maintenance by the Architect of the Capitol,” according to the Office. However, at the end of the blackout period,
the Library’s information technology office could not bring the servers back
online, along with several other Library managed government sites.
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In a victory for aerospace company SpaceX,
the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued
a decision on August 27th canceling 13 claims in a rocket sea-landing
patent owned by competitor Blue Origin, a space venture backed by Amazon’s Jeff
Bezos.
The patent at issue, U.S. Patent No. 8,678,321 B2 (the “’321
patent”), describes a method of vertically landing a rocket booster on a
floating platform after launch.
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Back in February of 2014, German sportswear giant Adidas filed
a patent infringement suit against competitor Under Armour, Inc. in United
States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Adidas
accused Under Armour and its newly acquired fitness tracker subsidiary, MapMyFitness,
Inc., of infringing ten of its patents.
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50 Cent’s moniker has ceased being figurative— the rapper
and business mogul has
filed for bankruptcy in Connecticut’s Bankruptcy Court.
Curtis James Jackson III, known by his stage name “50 Cent”
or “Fiddy”, started his career as a successful rap artist, rising to the top of
the charts and taking in millions of dollars in royalties annually.
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On July 26, the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that states
must recognize same-sex marriage. The long awaited decision was 5-4, with
Justice Kennedy casting the swing vote in favor of upholding same-sex unions. In
his
opinion for the majority, Kennedy wrote:
No union is more profound than
marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion,
sacrifice, and family.
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Creating a parody of a well-recognized brand is a popular way
to captivate the public, à la the “Dumb
Starbucks” phenomenon that took the internet by storm last year and had LA
residents lining up around the block for a cup of “dumb coffee.”
But is this type of witty commentary legal? Well, as any
lawyer will tell you, it depends.
Parody can be raised as a defense to a trademark or
copyright infringement lawsuit.
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In the News: Docket Alarm is excited to announce that we have been
selected as a finalist in Legaltech News’ Innovation Awards for Best Research Product!
The award is in recognition of outstanding achievement by legal professionals
in their use of technology.
Know Your PTAB Judges: Meet PTAB Judge Trevor Jefferson
In this installment of Docket Alarm’s Know Your PTAB Judge newsletter, Docket Alarm is proud to feature Administrative
Patent Judge Trevor Jefferson.
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Last week, a Pennsylvania jury handed down one of the first patent infringement verdicts involving drones. Drone Technologies Inc. filed suit against France-based Parrot SA for infringement on two of their patents, U.S. Patents 7,584,071 and 8,106,748.
Parrot is a well-known drone manufacturing company, focusing
primarily on the toy and hobby market.
The jury ruled in favor of Drone Technologies Inc., granting
$7.8 million in damages.
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Taylor Swift has been raising eyebrows recently, but not for
the reasons you may think. This time, instead of the 25-year-old pop star’s love life
being the topic of discussion, it’s her recent legal activity. Swift & Co
has filed more than 37 federal trademark applications in the past six months,
setting off a firestorm of speculation.
Swift’s applications seek protection for phrases like “this
sick beat,” “Party like it’s 1989,” and “nice to meet you, where you been?”
Many of these phrases are actually lyrics from her immensely popular songs.
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Docket Alarm would like to congratulate this year’s Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs. The 2014 class includes both veterans and up-and-comers, with almost all of the recipients having practices focused on patent litigation.
Daralyn Durie | Durie Tangri
Daralyn
Durie is a San Francisco-based patent litigator, whose clients include some
of the biggest names in tech: Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Genentech.
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