2011-08-04 China’s Intellectual Property Regime Comes of Age China intellectual property protection: not too many years ago that would have been considered an oxymoron. Then the Chinese government announced its future economy would be based on innovation, not manufacturing.
2004-04-22 What Does Rule 26 Protect When You Retain an Expert? Rule 26 provides that all expert reports "shall contain a complete statement of all opinions to be expressed and the basis and reasons therefore; [and] the data or other information considered by the witness in forming the opinions ...
2002-12-02 Securing Valuable Design Protection for Consumer Products Mammoth resources are required to launch new consumer products. Engineering efforts produce a consumer product that performs while industrial designers add consumer appeal to the product and marketing campaigns bring the resulting product to the attention of consumers.
2002-08-23 Supreme Court Overturns? Festo Not too many of us experienced in patent law were surprised to learn that the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the en banc finding of the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (CAFC) this past May when it "redefined" the interplay between the doctrine of equivalents and prosecution history estoppel.