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Osha & May L.L.P.

The Federal Circuit’s Approach to Analyzing “Motivation to Combine.”
The Federal Circuit recently provided guidance about the potential sources that may be used to establish a “motivation to combine” prior art references. Specifically, in DyStar Textilfarben GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG v. C.H. Patrick Co., 464 F.3d 1356 (Fed. Cir. 2006), the Federal Circuit held that the motivation “need not be found in the references sought to be combined, but may be found in any number of sources, including common knowledge, the prior art as a whole, or the nature of the problem itself.” Id. at 1361.

12-01-2006

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Osha & May L.L.P.

Forum Shopping: Litigation in the Eastern District of Texas. 2006-12-01
Several factors may be attributed to the rapid rise in popularity of the Eastern District of Texas in recent years. Particularly, jurors selected from the counties enclosed within the jurisdictional borders of the Eastern District have historically favored plaintiffs when sitting in civil cases. As such, would-be plaintiffs shopping for a strategically favorable venue to try their cases often place the Eastern District of Texas at the top of their (short) lists. In addition, the Eastern District of Texas has developed a reputation as a venue with a rapid docket for civil cases and, in particular, rapid disposition of patent infringement cases. Whereas other venues in the United States may take in excess of three years to adjudicate a patent case, the Eastern District of Texas currently boasts an average time between about 12–15 months from filing of the petition to final disposition.

12-01-2006

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Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Hampton, Truex and Morley

SW Adds to its Lansing Team
Secrest Wardle has hired a new Lansing attorney, Christian Odlum.

Mr. Odlum received his Juris Doctor degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1996. He received his bachelor of arts in Business/pre-law from Michigan State University in 1992. He was admitted to State Bar of Michigan in 1996.

Mr. Odlum has extensive trial experience with more than 20 jury trials that have gone to verdict. He previously served as an officer for the Ingham County Bar Association. He serves as a mediator in Ingham, Eaton, Clinton and Jackson Counties. He is admitted to practice in the Federal Courts of Michigan.

12-01-2006

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Phillips Lytle, L.L.P.

PHILLIPS LYTLE PARTNER MARK E. BRAND PRESENTS AT WALSH INSURANCE GROUP ANNUAL FALL BENEFITS SEMINAR
Mark E. Brand, partner with the law firm of Phillips Lytle LLP, one of the region’s largest full service law firms, recently made a presentation at Walsh Insurance Group’s Annual Fall Benefits Seminar. Mr. Brand provided health and welfare updates at the seminar, which took place at Shanghai Reds in Buffalo, NY.

At Phillips Lytle, Mr. Brand practices in the area of employee benefits law and related retirement and estate planning. His work focuses on the design, administration and documentation of qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, and health and welfare plans.
Mr. Brand is a member of the American, New York State and Erie County Bar Associations. He received his J.D. from University at Buffalo School of Law, and M.B.A. and B.S. from University at Buffalo. Mr. Brand, a graduate of Leadership Buffalo, sits on the Board of Directors for Summit Educational Resources, Inc., St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County and the North Buffalo Bison Hockey Association.

Founded in Buffalo, NY in 1860, Walsh Insurance Group today maintains three full service independent insurance agencies: Walsh Duffield, M. Insurance and Jacob Hauck Agency. Walsh writes multiple lines of general insurance including personal and commercial lines such as automobile, homeowners, marine, general liability, workers compensation,employee benefits and individual life. With fifty-five associates, the agency is headquartered in Buffalo and Hamburg, NY.

12-01-2006

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Osha & May L.L.P.

Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006.
U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 (“the Act”.) The Act amends the Trademark Act of 1946 with respect to dilution and is a response to the ruling of the Supreme Court in Moseley v. V Secret, 537 U.S. 418 (2003), as well as many splits in the federal circuits relating to the current dilution statute and the protection of famous marks in the United States.

12-01-2006

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Osha & May L.L.P.

Osha · Liang to Host Presentation on Litigating in the Eastern District of Texas.
experienced patent litigators from Osha · Liang will team with local counsel from the Eastern District of Texas to give a CLE presentation on “How to Survive Patent Litigation in the Eastern District of Texas.

12-01-2006

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Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

Five N&R Attorneys Named Legal Elite
Five Needle & Rosenberg, P.C. intellectual property attorneys – Jeffrey H. Brickman, Gregory J. Kirsch, William H. Needle, Lawrence K. Nodine, and Gwendolyn D. Spratt – are among the Georgia lawyers named as the “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend magazine. Needle was named to the list for the fourth consecutive year, Kirsch for the third year and Spratt for the second.

The Legal Elite were selected as the “most effective lawyers” in eleven specified practice areas in a survey polling several thousand of their peers from the State Bar of Georgia. The fourth annual list was published in the December 2006 issue of Georgia Trend.

Biographical information about Needle & Rosenberg’s Legal Elite includes the following:

- Jeff Brickman practices both intellectual property litigation and criminal defense and served as the District Attorney of DeKalb County of Atlanta, Georgia prior to joining Needle & Rosenberg.

- Greg Kirsch leads the firm's software, electronics and communications technology patent practice. He serves as patent counsel to numerous technology companies, ranging from large multinational corporations to small start-ups.

- Bill Needle is the founder of Needle & Rosenberg, P.C., and he has practiced patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law exclusively over his entire 36-year career.

- Larry Nodine is the managing shareholder of the firm and practices in intellectual property litigation and counseling and leads the firm’s litigation practice. For more than twenty years, Larry has served as lead counsel on a wide variety of cases involving trademarks, copyrights and patents.

- Gwen Spratt co-leads the firm's biotechnology patent practice. She serves as Patent Counsel for the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and numerous universities and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

12-01-2006

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