Suppose your American company is No. 1 or No. 2 in your product niche. You’re a leader because you make a product better than your competitor’s product.
The front page headline of the Wall Street Journal* blared the news: “Apple, Qualcomm End Legal Feud.”
Chicago can be a cold, hard place. Crime, corruption, taxes. Brutal winters.Why would one choose to live and work in Chicago? I’ll tell you my story, below.
Seventeen years ago, I founded Beem Patent Law Firm to provide business clients with customized patents and lean, focused enforcement and defense.
It takes skill to win a patent case. You must marshal the evidence so judge and jury will follow you to the right conclusion.
See Abraham Lincoln School of Patent Litigation.
Why do patent defendants say such bad things about the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas?
I asked this question of Michael C. Smith, the noted lawyer and blogger from Marshall, Texas.
If you’re an inventor, engineer, or programmer—if you’re an entrepreneur, owner, or prime mover in a business—if you use technology to make better products for your customers—
Nine billion dollars. That’s what Oracle wanted from Google for the unauthorized use of 37 Java APIs in Android, which runs most of the world’s smartphones.
House counsel for a large software company has written an open letter to me titled Pursuit of Extremely Short Patent Claims. He has thrown down the gauntlet in a public forum.
On April 25, 1961, Robert Noyce, then of Fairchild, was issued U.S. Patent 2,981,877 for the first silicon-based integrated circuit.
