August 2022 Bar Bulletin
By Jeff Danley
An introduction to patent litigation for small- and medium-sized businesses (part one in a series of four articles)
PART I:
IT HAPPENED. After months or even years of development, countless hours of research and copious amounts of market analysis, you’re hours away from going live. Exciting times; and then—you get served. A complaint for patent infringement arrives from a company you’ve never heard of alleging that you’re using technology they claim to have invented years ago. You’re rightfully stunned; you know this happens, obviously, but to you? You’d been so careful; what could have happened?
The thing you perhaps didn’t realize (that...