
Serving Process in Brazil: Nascent Use of the Hague Service Convention
In August, 2020, the Florida Bar Journal published my second article on serving process in Brasil; the first article is now stale and...

Serving Process In Brazil
This article details options available to a litigant in the United States in serving process on an individual / entity in Brazil, concluding

NOT READY TO STICK A 'FOURCO' IN IT YET: EXISTING PATENT VENUE LAW WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED UN
Despite real policy concerns that current patent venue law concentrates too many patent cases in one judicial district, the appropriate venu

OUTLOOK REALIZED: THE SUPREME COURT HAS HARMONIZED EQUITABLE DEFENSES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISP
Despite real concerns that laches plays a critical role in protecting legitimate business activity and may rightly help attenuate substantia

ESSENTIAL AIDS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES COMBATING CYBERSECURITY
The issue of Cybersecurity is no longer associated only with large companies such as financial institutions (e.g., JP Morgan), manufacturing

PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) PROTECTION:
WHEN YOUR IP TARGET COUNTRY IS NOT IN THE GROUP OF 152
Though various international agreements, including the PCT and Paris Convention, may preserve priority for potential patent protection in va

APPLE TRIUMPHS AGAIN:
TRANSFORMING A $530 MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT INTO A DISTINCT MEMORY
Federal Circuit invalidates Smartflash patents since it did not pass two-part Alice test, thus wiping out a $530 million dollar verdict agai

QUANTITY OVER QUALITY?:
LIFE TECHNOLOGIES GETS NEW LIFE IN ITS PATENT LAWSUIT
The shipment of just one component of a multi-component invention can never translate into patent infringement pursuant to §271(f)(1).

JUDICIAL GERRYMANDERING:
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO REMAKE THE 9TH CIRCUIT
Instead of engaging in politically-motivated judicial gerrymandering, a paradigm shift is required to solve the fundamental problems with th

OBTAINING RULE 38 SANCTIONS (DURING AN APPEAL)
Though two goals that all modern courts (trial and appellate) have are to reduce groundless and baseless filings and to streamline the cours