Recent Articles

The Experts Look at Improving Voir Dire

R. David Donoghue
November 20, 2008 11:15

Anne Reed has an excellent post at her Deliberations blog about improving the voir dire system based upon Judge Mize's and Center for Jury Studies director Paula Hannaford-Agor's new paper, Building a Better Voir Dire  -- click here to read the post and for a link to a pdf of...

Blawg Review #186

R. David Donoghue
November 19, 2008 11:02

Blawg Review #186 is up at Res Ipsa -- click here to read it.  Befitting a blog that focuses on the use of technology in the law, there is plenty of IP content: Traverse Legal has a great post, including a podcast, (click here to read/listen to it) explaining that while it is possible to...

Northern District of Illinois Court & Clerk's Closings

R. David Donoghue
November 18, 2008 11:07

As usual, the Northern District will be closed for both Thanksgiving Day and the Friday after, November 27 and 28.  Additionally, the Clerk's office will close this Thursday, November 20 from 3:30-4:30 pm for a special meeting.  The drop box and ECF filing will still be available, but if...

CLE: Drafting & Negotiating Effective Settlement Agreements

R. David Donoghue
November 17, 2008 10:40

This Thursday, November 20 at noon central time, I am presenting a one hour program audio conference on drafting and negotiating effective settlements.  The program is not IP-specific, but will be very useful for IP lawyers and litigants, as well as general commercial...

Docket Navigator: Pacer on Steroids

R. David Donoghue
November 14, 2008 10:46

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to speak with the folks at Docket Navigator about their powerful new patent docket database and search tool.  I do not do many product reviews, but Docket Navigator's patent docket database really struck me.  You may already know them from...

IP-Centric Blawg Review

R. David Donoghue
November 13, 2008 10:57

This week's Blawg Review #185 is up at Duncan Bucknell's IP Think Tank -- click here to read it.  It will be no surprise to Bucknell's readers (including me) that his theme is global intellectual property.  Of course, Bucknell focuses on the Bilski decision -- for example,...

R. David Donoghue Joins Holland & Knight

R. David Donoghue
November 12, 2008 10:20

Earlier this week, I joined Holland & Knight as a partner in the litigation and intellectual property groups.  What does that mean for the blog?  Not much.  You will notice an updated bio page, some changed branding and the comments have been turned...

Post-Election IP News

R. David Donoghue
November 11, 2008 10:42

Here are some interesting IP-related posts and because everyone (at least in Chicago) still seems to have last week's election on their minds, most are election related: The MTTLR Blog's Dorothy Eshelman has an interesting post on whether the use of debate clips by, among others, the...

American Jury Project: Questionnaires, Deliberation Guidance and Time Limits

R. David Donoghue
November 10, 2008 11:04

I previously described the high-level findings of the Seventh Circuit’s American Jury Project – click here for that post, including links to PDFs of the report and related documents. Having discussed the four Principles studied in Phase Two,* this post looks at the additional three...

Questions of Fact re Alleged Enjoined Imitations Prevent Contempt

R. David Donoghue
November 07, 2008 10:50

Liquid Dynamics Corp. v. Vaughan, No. 08 C 6934, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Oct. 20, 2008) (Conlon, J.). Judge Conlon denied plaintiff's objections to the Magistrate's Report and Recommendations and denied plaintiff's contempt motion. In a prior case, a jury found plaintiff's patent valid and willfully...