Generally under Texas law, when you sue on a note and recover a judgment, you are limited to your remedies in the judgment under the “merger” doctrine, in which the note merges into the judgment. The merger doctrine is an application of res judicata, which stops parties from litigating causes of action that have already been …
In a 7-1 decision, the United States Supreme Court has held that laches cannot be invoked as a defense against a claim for patent infringement damages within § 286’s six year statute of limitations period in SCA Hygiene Products v. First Quality Baby Products. Laches is an equitable defense which may bar certain claims if …
It was 141 years ago today, March 7, 1876, that Alexander Graham Bell received U.S. Letters Patent No, 174,465 covering his latest invention – the telephone. The original patent application was filed just three weeks earlier on February 14, 1876. In fact, Bell’s patent application was filed a mere two hours before Elisha Gray filed …