Intellectual Property
PTO Fee Hike Less Onerous Than Feared By Patent Bar
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced plans Tuesday to increase the costs of procuring a patent by a...
Judges and Judiciary
'Visionary' Presiding Judge Has Made Many Changes
By Anne La Jeunesse
SANTA ANA - Twenty years ago, on a sunny September Saturday, Frederick P. Horn, then a Los Angeles County prosecutor, and his ...
SAN DIEGO - In Latin America, where many view the justice systems as stacked against the underdog, costumed crusaders are tea...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster has recruited Irell & Manella entertainment and aviation lawyer...
SAN FRANCISO - Partners at recently dissolved Skjerven Morrill are splitting up largely along the lines of their practice grou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bolstered by five of the jurors who convicted him, a courtroom full of supporters and San Francisco's distric...
RIVERSIDE - In the second case in the state to apply the U.S. Supreme Court decision banning the death penalty for mentally re...
Forum Column - By Dilan A. Esper - In Eldred v. Ashcroft , decided on Jan. 15, the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued w...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor has been sued in federal court for allegedly embezzling funds and defrauding a for...
SAN FRANCISCO - Within hours of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's announcement last week that it would close its doors, Calif...
SAN FRANCISCO - Six prisoners linked to the Aryan Brotherhood pleaded guilty Monday to a variety of charges, including conspi...
SAN FRANCISCO - About 100 retired judges who filled trial court vacancies last year have hung up their robes, apparently reac...
Law Practice
Brobeck Dies in Avalanche Brought on by Rancorous Snowstorm
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The collapse of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison is an illustration of the adage, the m...
LOS ANGELES - Phil Spector, the temperamental, reclusive Rock and Roll Hall of Fame record producer, was arrested Monday in A...
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Skjerven Morrill, a 62-attorney intellectual property boutique in San Jose, voted Monday to disso...
Intellectual Property
Analysis of Similarity of Marks Resists Summary Judgment
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Thane International Inc. v. Trek Bicycle Corp....
SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego immigration lawyer Andrea Guerrero couldn't have planned a better publication date for her first bo...
SAN FRANCISCO - The transfer of assets and liabilities from one corporation to another does not automatically include insuran...
Judges and Judiciary
Job Allows Jurist to Expand His Public Service
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
FONTANA - San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Michael R. Libutti had a no-frills childhood, living with his mother and two bro...
LOS ANGELES - Robert L. Shapiro, credited with assembling the renowned "dream team" in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, is repr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Monday that a Nevada public defender's office may be sued for alle...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Monday quietly backed off plans to impose punitive fees on applicants...
While preparing for his most recent trial, attorney Gary Barr had a little difficulty with his research. Barr wanted to use a ...
In 1989, Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski acquired Reavis & McGrath. The New York-based firm had a second office in Los ...
Orange County Superior Court Judges Christopher Strople and David H. Brickner are slated for retirement in February. The two ...
Are bad times a good time to invest? Chicago's Winston & Strawn seems to think so. The 850-lawyer business and litigation ...
Andrea Wirum has done it before, and she'll do it again. Wirum, a securities, finance and insolvency partner with Pillsbury Wi...
What is believed to be the only legal advocacy group in California with its own television show broadcasts its message of tort...
Donna Melby didn't just crack the glass ceiling with her Jan 18 induction as the vice president of the American Board of Trial...
Contrary to published reports, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Joseph L. Lodge did not preside last month over the wedding ...