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Located near Los Angeles International Airport and convenient to Palos Verdes, Manhattan Beach, Marina Del Rey, the South Bay, Torrance and the Westside |
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At the Federal Courthouse as Counsel on a Case |
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Pro Tem Judge in the Municipal Court |
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News Briefs: Do you know that? |
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December, 2011: Vital materials. The National Center for Policy Analysis held a conference in November on China producing 95% of the rare earth elements that are used in electronics, including electronics important to US national security. There is a perception that low cost products from China decimated the US industry in the 1990s and that China is exploiting this monopoly as a weapon in foreign and political policy. Source: Chemical & Engineering News (Dec. 2, 2011.) |
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December, 2011: CRESTOR patent. AstraZeneca predates Teva's art. Conception of the invention occurred by appreciating that a stable statin composition was invented without knowing what in the composition made the statin stable (see, Teva v AstraZeneca; Case no. 2011-1091 (Fed. Cir.) |
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December, 2011: Civil Procedure. A $235,000 cost for using an electronic discovery company to host a database to process, review and produce email is potentially recoverable under FRCivP 54(d)(1) and 28 USC 1920(4), absent an agreement by the parties to the contrary. Synopsis v. Ricoh Co, Case No. 2011-1199 (Fed. Cir.) |
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December, 2011: Indirect blow to ED Texas for patent litigation. In Link_A_Media, the Federal Circuit granted a writ of mandamus to transfer from De to Ca. On the 1404 motion, the District Court erred in not considering all of the factors. |
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December, 2011: Companion diagnostics (Dx) will have its big day in the US Supreme Court on December 7 (tomorrow) with oral arguments in Prometheus v. Mayo (Source: Wall Street Journal.) Of course, a salute to those who perished at Pear Harbor on a day which shall live in infamy. |
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December, 2011: Life Science Cos IPO performance- Drug Discovery News reports that 13 IPOs that closed in '11 in the US are down 7.4%. |
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November, 2011: National Bioeconomy Blueprint. US Office of Science & Technology Policy issued a Request for Information. Here is your chance to shape your economic future |
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November, 2011 Big Pharma Wage Litigation: US Sup Ct to resolve conflict between 2nd & 9th Cir whether reps get overtime time. Surprising the liberal 9th Cir said "no" and the conservative 2nd cir said "yes." |
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November, 2011: What happened to WordPerfect (tm) which had a fifty percent market share and was commonplace in law offices? Bill Gates testified in an anti-trust suit by Novell (now part of The Attachmate Group) against Microsoft that Word (tm) was superior and Novell could not get out in time, or at all, Windows compatible version. Source Met News-Ent. |
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Article by Hoffenberg on the Patentability of Genes (Written prior to the decision by the Federal Circuit in The Association of Pathology and perhaps will be of significance if the Supreme Court grants certiorari. |
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Patentability of Diagnostic Methods |
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Resources H Hoffenberg, Resource Guide to Respond to an Office Action in a Patent Case |
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