Student Speech in Online Social Networking Sites: Where to Draw the Line
ABSTRACT: Do Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace require courts to Tinker with the Supreme Court’s student speech trilogy of Tinker to Bethel to Morse? Michael J. Kasdan examines the struggle to define the proper place of so-called “student internet speech.” Introduction The move toward online communication has the potential to throw off the historically careful balance […]
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K-C Diaper Patent Injunction Challenged In Fed. Circ.
Law360, New York (February 11, 2011) — First Quality Baby Products LLC tried to convince the Federal Circuit on Friday that a preliminary injunction on one of its diaper products stemming from a patent infringement case brought by Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. was unwarranted. First Quality attorney
Introducing New Evidence in Patent Appeals from USPTO
Hyatt v. Kappos, No. 2007-1066, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2010 US App. LEXIS 23117, 8 November 2010 Abstract A patent applicant may introduce new evidence to a US District Court on appeal of an adverse decision by the US Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. Legal context Under US practice, a […]
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IP Law 360 turns to Partner Charles R. Macedo For Insight on TiVo v. Echostar Oral Arguments Before the Federal Circuit
Click Charles R. Macedo, a partner at Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, said that the two key questions attorneys wanted answered by the Federal Circuit were how much a redesigned product must be changed in order to warrant a new trial and whether a good faith effort to design around a patent found to infringe was enough […]
In The Press:The Heshel School Project
Click here to download the article. Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein attorneys Charles Macedo and Howard Wizenfeld participate in School’s experimental course on innovation and patenting. – Heschel School News, May 29, 2008
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Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein named one of 2010’s ‘Busiest Firms for Plantiffs, Defendants and Overall’
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In The Press:Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein named one of 2010’s ‘Busiest Firms for Plantiffs, Defendants and Overall’
Click here to view the article. – Corporate Counsel, Patent Litigation Survey 2010: The Busiest Firms For Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Overall, October 11, 2010
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Inside Counsel Turns to Partner Charles R. Macedo for Insight on TiVO v. Echostar Case
Click here to view the article. “Defendants don’t get to have the same presumptions and defenses. There’s no jury trial. There’s no Markman hearing. It’s a shortcut proceeding. You have one streamlined hearing, then an issuance,” says Charles Macedo, a partner at Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein and author of “The Corporate Insider’s Guide to U.S. […]
In The Press:Macy’s, Others Win Claims In Katz Phone Patent MDL
Click here to download the article. Law360, New York (February 01, 2010) — In a tangled ruling delving into eight automated phone systems patents belonging to inventor Ronald A. Katz, a federal judge has granted a group of defendants’ bid for summary judgment on obviousness with respect to certain claims while denying their arguments on […]
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Technology Transfer Tactics turns to Partner Charles R. Macedo for insight on Bilski decision.
Click Charles R. Macedo Esq., a partner at New York’s Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, tells TTT that the decision “keeps in play a wider range of potentially patent-eligible subject matter than if Justice Stevens’ concurrence had been adopted as a majority decision. The flexibility of the majority decision will lead to greater opportunities to […]