Intellectual Property Counseling and Litigation

Part I Introduction [RESERVED] 

Part I Introduction [RESERVED] 

Part II Counseling Strategies for Successful Protection of Intellectual Property

Division A Protecting the Subject Matter

Chapter 1 Defensive Measures Against Counterfeiting

Appendix 1: APPENDICES 
Chapter 2 Drafting Patents with a View to Litigation*

Chapter 3 Protecting Designs by Trademarks, Copyrights, and Design Patents

Appendix 3: APPENDICES

Chapter 4 Drafting and Enforcing Noncompetition Clauses for Employees

Appendix 4A: APPENDICES

Chapter 5 Standards of Protectable Trade Secrets

Appendix 5: APPENDICES

Chapter 6 False Comparative Advertising

Chapter 7 Protecting Biotechnology

Appendix 7A: APPENDICES

Appendix 7B: APPENDICES

Appendix 7C: APPENDICES

Appendix 7D: APPENDICES

Appendix 7E: APPENDICES

Chapter 8 Biotechnology Deposit Requirements

Appendix 8: APPENDICES

Chapter 9 The Chip Protection Act

Appendix 9: APPENDICES

Chapter 10 Chip Protection: Litigation, Licensing and International Issues

Appendix 10: APPENDICES

Chapter 11 Software Protection

Appendix 11: APPENDICES

Chapter 12 Process Patents

Appendix 12: APPENDICES

Chapter 13 Intellectual Property Protection of E-Commerce

Division B Intellectual Property Strategies in Business Law Settings

Chapters 14through 19 RESERVED

Chapter 20 Arbitration and Arbitration Clauses

Appendix 21: APPENDICES

Chapter 22 Personal Liability of Officers and Directors for Corporate Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights*

Chapter 23 Interface Between Intellectual Property Law and Antitrust Law

Appendix 23: APPENDICES

Chapter 24 Bankruptcy and Intellectual Property Licensing

Appendix 24A: APPENDICES

Chapter 25 Intellectual Property Clauses in Government Contracts

Appendix 25: APPENDICES

Chapter 26 Tax Planning for Intellectual Property

Appendix 26: APPENDIX

Chapter 27 Export Control of Intellectual Property

Appendix 27: APPENDICES

Chapter 28 Privacy, Publicity and Intellectual Property

Appendix 28: APPENDICES

Chapter 29 Insurance Coverage for Intellectual Property Lawsuits

Chapters 30through 39 RESERVED

Division C Counseling in the Foreign Setting

Chapter 40 Foreign Trademark Counseling and Strategy

Appendix 40: APPENDICES

Chapter 41 Strategies for Foreign Patenting of U.S. Inventions

Appendix 41: APPENDICES

Chapter 42 International Technology License Agreements

Appendix 42: APPENDICES

Chapter 43 Foreign Patent Litigation

Appendix 43: APPENDICES

Chapter 44 RESERVED

Division D The Role of Counsel

Chapter 45 Containing Costs in Intellectual Property Litigation

Chapter 46 Legal Opinions in Intellectual Property Matters

Appendix 46: APPENDICES

Chapters 47through 49 RESERVED

Part III Litigating the Intellectual Property Case

Division A Evaluating and Resolving the Controversy Before Trial

Chapter 50 Risk Evaluation in Intellectual Property Litigation

Appendix 50: APPENDICES

Chapter 51 Settlement Techniques

Appendix 51: APPENDICES

Chapter 52 Willfulness and Defense to Willfulness

Appendix 52: APPENDICES

Chapter 53 Alternative Dispute Resolution

Appendix 53: APPENDICES

Chapter 54 RESERVED

Division B Jurisdiction and Causes of Action

Chapter 55 Jurisdiction and Venue Issues of Concern in Intellectual Property Litigation

Appendix 55: APPENDICES

Chapter 56 Checklist of Patent Causes of Action and Defenses (With Sample Pleadings) 

Appendix 56: APPENDICES

Chapter 57 Checklist of Trademark and Unfair Competition Causes of Action and Defenses, Including Sample Pleadings

Appendix 57: APPENDICES

Chapter 58 Checklist of Trade Secret Causes of Action and Defenses, Including Sample Pleadings

Appendix 58: APPENDICES

Chapter 59 Checklists of Copyright Causes of Action and Defenses, Including Sample Pleadings

Appendix 59: APPENDICES

Chapters 60through 64 RESERVED

Division C Preliminary Relief

Chapter 65 Survey of Preliminary Injunction Requirements

Appendix 65: APPENDICES

Chapter 66 Federal Ex Parte Temporary Relief

Appendix 66: APPENDICES

Chapters 67through 69 RESERVED

Division D Discovery

Chapter 70 Discovery in Patent Cases

Appendix 70: APPENDICES

Chapter 71 Discovery in Trademark Cases in the Courts and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

Appendix 71: APPENDICES

Chapter 72 Discovery in Trade Secret Cases

Appendix 72: APPENDICES

Chapters 73through 74 RESERVED

Division E Privilege

Chapter 75 Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Immunity in Intellectual Property

Appendix 75: APPENDICES

Chapters 76through 79 RESERVED

Division F Trial Techniques

Chapter 80 Selection and Preparation of a Patent Expert in a Patent Case

Appendix 80: APPENDICES

Chapter 81 Surveys

Appendix 81: APPENDICES

Chapter 82 Trial Techniques in Jury and Bench Trials of Patent Cases

Appendix 82A: APPENDICES

Chapter 83 Trial Techniques in Trademark Cases

Chapter 84 Trial Techniques in Trade Secret Cases

Appendix 84A: APPENDICES

Appendix 84B: APPENDICES

Appendix 84C: APPENDICES

Appendix 84D: APPENDICES

Appendix 84E: APPENDICES

Appendix 84F: APPENDICES

Chapter 85 Trial Techniques in Jury and Bench Trials of Copyright Cases

Appendix 85: APPENDICES

Chapters 86through 89 RESERVED

Division G Relief

Chapter 90 Compensation in Patent Infringement Cases

Chapter 91 Damages for Trademark Infringement

Chapter 92 Fashioning Injunctions in Trademark Cases

Appendix 92: APPENDICES

Chapter 93 Damages in Copyright Cases

Appendix 93: APPENDICES

Chapter 94 Attorney's Fees for Frivolous Claims

Chapter 95 Gray Market and Other Unapproved Goods

Appendix 95: APPENDICES

Chapters 96through 98 RESERVED

Chapter 99 Interference Practice

Appendix 99: APPENDICES

Part IV Practice In Particular Tribunals

Division A Practice in P.T.O. Forums

Chapter 100 Effective Presentation of Evidence in Proceedings Before the Patent and Trademark Office

Chapter 101 Reissue and Reexamination in the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Appendix 101: APPENDICES

Chapter 102 Practice on Appeal Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

Appendix 102: APPENDICES

Chapter 103 Inter Partes Practice at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

Appendix 103: APPENDICES

Chapter 104 RESERVED

Division B Practice at the C.A.F.C. and Other Non-P.T.O. Tribunals under its Review

Chapter 105 Practice Before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Appendix 105: APPENDICES

Chapter 106 Practice at the International Trade Commission

Appendix 106: APPENDICES

Chapter 107 U.S. Claims Court Practice

Appendix 107: APPENDICES

Division C Counseling in the Foreign Setting

Chapter NSU Foreign Trademark Counseling and Strategy

Lester Horwitz has been in practice as a patent attorney for over 40 years, representing clients before the U.S. PTO, acting on their behalf in securing protection in foreign patent offices and in licensing and enforcing their intellectual property.

Mr. Horwitz has extensively written on intellectual property issues and has lectured before U.S. and foreign patent law associations and, on invitation, to foreign patent office personnel.

His education includes a Ph. D. from New York University and an LL. B. from the University of Missouri.

He speaks from experience as both a patent attorney and as an inventor who has patents on his own research.

Ethan Horwitz, M.S., J.D., Member, N.Y. Bar and Partner King & Spalding

Lisa Hershman, B.A., Yale University, J.D., Harvard Law School