U.S. Supreme Court,
Intellectual Property
Dec. 20, 2014
Bizarre petition serves as reminder
Judges have complained for years that patent lawyers don't write in plain English, and the U.S. Supreme Court joined the chorus earlier this month.
Ben M. Davidson
Founder
Davidson Law Group ALC
Intellectual Property
Phone: (310) 473-2300
Email: Ben@dlgla.com
George Washington Univ Law School
Ben is a former patent examiner and represents corporations in intellectual property litigation and proceedings before the U. S. Patent & Trademark Office.
Judges have complained for years that patent lawyers don't write in plain English.
That complaint reached new heights Dec. 8, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a highly unusual order to show cause why an attorney should not be sanctioned for filing a petition that was nearly impossible to understand. In Sigram Schindler Beteiligungsgesellschaft MBH v. Lee, 14-424, the D.C. firm Foley & Lardner LLP had filed a petition for review of a decision by the U.S. Court of ...
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