by Stephen Kennedy | Apr 21, 2017 | Blog
Just about every piece of new technology incorporates intellectual property from patents to trademarks to copyrights. A cell phone has somewhere between 100 to 1,000 patents covering everything from the screen to the battery. I recently purchased conduit for an...
by Stephen Kennedy | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
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,...
by Stephen Kennedy | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Stephen Kennedy | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Stephen Kennedy | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
On February 15, 2017, the Federal Circuit affirmed a default-type death penalty sanction against a party found to have intentionally destroyed evidence in an investigation of patent infringement by the International Trade Commission. The case is Organik Kimya v....
