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Do Employees Working from Home Impact Venue in Patent Litigation?

The IP Law Blog

Given the increase in employees working from home in recent years, the question has arisen as to whether an employee’s home office is considered a “regular and established place of business” for the purposes of patent venue.

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7 Qualities of a successful lawyer in the age of pandemic

SimplyLawJobs

They try to restrict the freedoms of the people by changing statutes overnight. However, during the pandemic, you must work from home and limit your travels. Flexibility in working conditions. Office-based workers now work from home to protect themselves from COVID-19.

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Venue Transfer Games Continue: Rafqa Star v. Google

Patently O

The relevant statute reads as follows: For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought or to any district or division to which all parties have consented.

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TechReport 2021: Practice Management

LawTechnologyToday

There was a surge of working from home and virtual working as a result of the pandemic, and many firms may still be operating like that. Still, whether this high rate continues to climb or plateaus will be interesting as firms face the question of returning to their office or allowing people to work from home.

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Democracy on Trial: Chestek and the Future of USPTO Accountability

Patently O

BADC cites the late Justice Scalia’s admonition that courts must avoid interpretations “[incompatible] with the reason [and] purpose of the statute.” Congress did not intend for the USPTO to have that latitude. Antonin Scalia, Judicial Deference to Administrative Interpretations of Law , 1989 Duke L.J. ” 5 U.S.C. §

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

There is also evidence that working from home was harder for smaller-firm lawyers than for their larger-firm counterparts. The effects of the pandemic have changed how legal professionals view the concept of ‘work’ and where they get it done. But working from home a few days each week?

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The Path to Success is Not Always a Straight Line.

InHouseOps

One final note on the winding route to where I am now: I like to think that I was ahead of the work-from-home trend, given I actually started working from home in 2018, after years in an office. Other departments come to us in part for our thoroughness. They count on us to catch what they might miss.