Mass Law Blog
Intellectual property and business litigation, Massachusetts and nationallyWritten by humans
Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer
"You Assert That a ‘Spike’ is a Non-Pointed Structure Under This Patent? That Will Cost You $4.6 Million, Counselor!"
As I've said so many times in this blog, it's not the law you need to fear, it's the judge. In CU Medical v. Alaris Medical System (a patent infringement case involving medical valves) the patent owner/plaintiff argued that the term "spike," described in the patent as "a pointed instrument," included non-pointed structures, such as a tube.The California U.S. District Court trial judge didn't take kindly to this frivolous argument (in the eyes of the judge). The judge also found that the...
Connecticut Supreme Court Briefs Online
Here's a link to Connecticut Supreme Court Briefs Onlne, a Wordpress blog managed by members of the Connecticut bar who attempt to post the briefs in every case that is argued before the Connecticut Supreme Court. The site also posts a short description of the issue in each case, the decision (when it becomes available) and a video of argument before the Court (also when available). It would be great if every state did this, and if there were a centralized site that provided access to each...
American Lawyer: The USSC Has the CAFC Trembling in its Robes
"Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion" Frank Herbert ------------------------ For those who have access to the American Lawyer (and I realize that at $430/year that's a tiny percentage of lawyers, and almost no non-lawyers), there's a interesting article in the March 2009 issue on the impact the Roberts Court's patent rulings in appeals from the CAFC...
Presentation Materials on Massachusetts Data Regulations
Recently my partner Joseph Laferrera has given a series of presentations and webinars on the controversial new Massachusetts data security regulations. Information on his upcoming webinar with Ntirety (a database administrator and client of our firm), on April 2, 2009 at 10:00 a.m., is available at this link. A copy of the slides Joe is using now (they change often, based on developments), is on scribed.com, here: The New Standard - Massachusetts' Sweeping New Data Protection Rules Publish at...
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