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Buether Joe & Carpenter Welcomes Nick Kliewer as Its Newest Associate

DALLAS (September 16, 2019) – Buether Joe & Carpenter, LLC – an intellectual property and commercial litigation boutique law firm – is...

IPWatchdog - Federal Circuit Is Hesitant to Construe Patent Claims in the First Instance on Appeal

September 3, 2019. An winning appellate decision at the Federal Circuit handled by BJC on behalf of client MyMail Inc. is discussed here...

BJC Partners Named Texas Super Lawyers 2019

DALLAS (September 1, 2019) – Eric Buether, Chris Joe, and Brian Carpenter of Buether Joe & Carpenter, LLC – an intellectual property and...

Federal Circuit - Claim Construction Required Before Patent Eligibility Decision

On August 16, 2019, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion that district courts mush construe patent claims first before...

Patent Venue - Plead Facts, Not Legal Conclusions

On July 5, 2019, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Westech v. 3M (Fed. Cir. 2019). The court held that in order to establish...

Section 101 - Pleading Inventive Concept in Complaint Can Be Sufficient to Overcome Dismissal Motion

On June 25, 2019, the Federal Circuit issued its decision in Cellspin Soft, Inc. v. Fitbit, Inc. finding that allegations in complaint...

Dirty Trademarks - SCOTUS Finds "Immoral or Scandalous" Criterion in Lanham Act Unconstitutional

Decided June 24, 2019. From the Court's syllabus: Held: The Lanham Act’s prohibition on registration of “immoral[ ] or scandalous”...