Berkeley IP & Tech Month: Patent Case Management

Just a reminder that I’ll be presenting on this panel this afternoon at 1 Texas time – you can register to watch here.
Just a reminder that I’ll be presenting on this panel this afternoon at 1 Texas time – you can register to watch here.
I am working with Peter Menell, Allison Schmitt and Roman Swoopes on a panel presentation as part of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s new “IP+Tech month” program – a year in review program with panels presenting on over 30 IP & tech topics during May.
BCLT reports that “[t]hese are not your typical CLE courses. They are highly-focused sessions that are curated through Berkeley Law. Our instructors and faculty are the cornerstone of this program and, with over 60 tech and IP-focused instructors, that’s a lot of expertise.”
On Monday we’ll be presenting on the subject of Patent Case Management, with yours truly herding the Texas-specific developments while Allison and Roman cover Delaware and California, respectively. After that Professor Menell will join us for a moderated roundtable on the topic.
So we have something other than a folder of cases for attendees, I took the Texas-specific developments and put them into a separate document with the relevant narrative enhanced with photos and watercolors of Texas courthouses so it looks nice. It’s attached below. Readers will recognize it as a subset of some of the more important cases and developments in Texas’ patent courts over the past year. I had initially intended it to be more comprehensive, but in the end decided to just mirror what I plan on talking about as part of the panel.
While I was in trial last week ALM published the first article of a 4-part series I co-authored with Erick S. Robinson, partner and co-chair of IP in the Houston and Austin offices of Spencer Fane LLP; and Karl Rupp who practices with Sorey & Gilliland in Longview, Texas. ALM subscribers can access the article here. (Yes, I know they need a shave – I’m working on it).
Had a great time presenting on the differences and similarities between EDTX and WDTX with Leah Bhimani Buratti of Austin today.
And finally, I’m presenting to the Texarkana Bar Association at noon today on fun & games with photo copyright litigation. Yet another chance to use my work from freshman photo class 40 years ago …
Despite being in trial last week (yes, I’m getting to that), it appears I also presented at an online seminar on removal and remand.
I’m presenting a webinar on trial procedure in federal court next month – for more info go here. The brochure for the court is also attached.
I’m looking forward to presenting on photo copyright litigation to the CCBA civil litigation section tomorrow.
The presentation combines my last two papers on the subject dealing with photo copyright litigation and ethical issues surrounding the practice.
The last of this spring’s four seminar presentations (copyright litigation, trial procedure, patent venue & class actions) is now done, with my first live seminar presentation since before the pandemic. Still have ethical issues in removal/remand on deck for the fall.
It’s been a while since I did a patent venue update. This one starts with 1849 and goes through the end of May, 2021.