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How Failing to Keep in Touch with Your Patent Lawyer Can Cost You Your Patent 

Brett Trout

But in 2019 and 2020, these critical reminders went unseen. Their patent agent even emailed them a reminder about the required payment, but the maintenance fee reminders from their patent agent landed in Taillefers junk email folder? When Taillefer failed to pay the maintenance fees, the patent expired.

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Ep 268: How Gen AI Can Be A Game-Changer for Discovery and Litigation, with Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar

LawNext podcast

In his keynote address there, cofounder and CEO AJ Shankar announced the general availability, after a year of beta testing, of a suite of generative AI features for reviewing, coding and analyzing documents in discovery and litigation prep.

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What We’ve Learned from Senators and Justices on Legal Talk Network

Legal Talk Network

Volunteer your time, whether its on the civil side or on the criminal side, to get into the courtroom and make sure that justice prevails in this litigation. Donnelly Having begun his tenure on the Ohio Supreme Court in January 2019, Associate Justice Michael P. Associate Justice Michael P.

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How a Missed $185 Patent Fee Could Cost Norvo Nordisk Billions: Why You Cannot Afford to Ignore Patent Maintenance

Brett Trout

Because someone at Novo didn’t pay a $185 maintenance invoice in 2019. 0) Using a Contingent Fee Attorney to Avoid the High Cost of Patent Litigation (0) Semaglutide, better known by its brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, is the blockbuster drug driving massive profits for Novo. Let that sink in. billion in Canadian sales last year.

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Ninth Circuit Says Section 230 Preempts “Defective Design” Claims–Doe v. Grindr

Eric Goldman

Craigslist * 2H 2019 and Q1 2020 Quick Links, Part 3 (FOSTA/Backpage) * New Paper Explains How FOSTA Devastated Male Sex Workers * FOSTA Constitutional Challenge RevivedWoodhull Freedom Foundation v. Facebook * New Essay: The Complicated Story of FOSTA and Section 230 * Who Benefited from FOSTA?

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2024 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

If you haven’t been watching the litigation tsunami over Meta Pixels, it’s been a sight to behold. The news continues to be awful for IAPs being legally responsible for not terminating the Internet access of possible recidivist downloaders. Pixel Cases. Last time I checked, I think there were 150 pixel rulings in Westlaw.

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Essential Family Law Statistics You Should Know in 2025

Clio

General family law statistics Before we jump into litigation trends, let’s take a moment to look at how American family structures have changed. in 1990 to 36% by 2019. Self-representation in family law One of the most significant challenges facing the family law system today is the prevalence of self-represented litigants.

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