The counsel of record, also known as attorney of record, is the lawyer who appears in court or receives pleadings and other formal documents on a party's behalf.
In People v. Macrander, 828 P.2d 234, the Supreme Court of...
patent law
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
The Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was the United States court in Washington, D.C. with jurisdiction over all decisions from the U.S. Customs Court (USCC) (renamed in 1980 the Court of International Trade (CIT)) and decisions by the...
cross-licensing
Cross Licensing refers to the cross-license agreement between patentees, entered into for purposes of avoiding litigation concerning conflicting patents. It helps preserve the financial incentives for inventors to commercialize their existing...
design patent
A design patent, unlike a utility patent, limits the investor’s patent protection to the ornamental design of the article. Per 35 U.S.C. § 171, “[w]hoever invents any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture may obtain a...
direct infringement
Direct infringement is the unauthorized exercise of one of the exclusive rights granted to the owner of a patent, copyright or trademark.
In patent law, direct infringement occurs when a person, without authorization, makes...
doctrine of equivalents
The doctrine of equivalents is a means by which a holder of a patent may raise a claim of infringement even though each and every element of the patented invention is not identically present in the allegedly infringing product. The purpose...
espionage
Espionage is the crime of spying or secretly watching a person, company, government, etc. for the purpose of gathering secret information or detecting wrongdoing, and to transfer such information to another organization or state. The act of...
exclusive license
Exclusive license allows a licensor to share intellectual property with a licensee for a specific period of time that usually binds the licensor to not share the property with anyone else. Normally, the license is unique to a certain area or...
exhaustion
Exhaustion refers to the doctrine that states once a product is sold by a patent owner, the patent owner can’t sue the purchaser for having an authorized copy of the patented product. The patent owner’s exclusive rights of the patented...
extradition
Overview
Extradition is the removal of a person (typically referred to as a fugitive) from a requested jurisdiction to another jurisdiction for criminal prosecution or punishment. Some relevant case law for extradition can be found in e.g....