Patent Baristas

cul·ture (n.) the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary Online). The book “Intellectual Property Culture: Strategies to Foster Successful Patent and Trade Secret Practices in Everyday Business” by Eric Dobrusin and Ronald Krasnow is much better than its bland title or cover would belie. This […]

Like it or not, more and more people find themselves in need of obtaining the time and service of lawyers and, as they say, time is money. Not only that, substantive rights are often on the line as clients deal with life and death matters from wills and trust to contracts and real estate to […]

This summer I went on vacation for a few days to get away from the office, computers, and patent law.  Yet I couldn’t help but to bring a little work with me.  Only this time it wasn’t something I could bill a few hours for; it was the thriller Undue Diligence written by Paul Haughey, […]

It’s not often that a fiction thriller comes along featuring a patent attorney as the lead character so I was anxious to see such a combination in Paul Goldstein’s novel “A Patent Lie.”  Labeled as “Owning the truth is a matter of life and death,” the book melds technology, ethics and law. Paul Goldstein is […]

Yali Friedman announced the new, Third Edition of Building Biotechnology, known as the definitive primer and leading textbook on the business of biotechnology is now available in its third edition.We have not read the newest edition but it promises to be better than ever. This new edition is a whopper containing 20 Chapters, 460 pages […]

In the book “How to Get Sued” (Kaplan Publishing, NY), J. Craig Williams of May It Please the Court blog fame, has come out with a book on the lighter side of how “real life” becomes “real litigation.”  As a sort of how-to guide, the book points out that all you really need is to […]

The book “Best Practices in Biotechnology Business Development” is a guidebook for those seeking to understand how to practice the business of biotechnology in order to become empowered to better manage their operations. This is not a typical page 1 to end (page 186) storyline with a nice plot and happy ending.  Instead, this is […]

The book “Patent Appeals: The Elements of Effective Advocacy in the Federal Circuit” by Mark Simon Davies (Oxford University Press, USA) provides detailed guidance for IP lawyers on the requirements for an appellate brief set out in the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 28(a).  The book inherently focuses on the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]