markterry
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A Florida-based intellectual property lawyer and registered patent attorney. Also a former Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and former software developer.
I run a solo practice in Florida (www.terryfirm.com) and keep a regular blog about recent happenings in U.S. patent and trademark law (www.floridapatentlawyerblog.com).
I've done quite a bit of initial patent work for startups that paid me with seed funding. Its important to get your patent applications filed early, so you can exclude your competitors from entering into your space.
Since this was a District Court decision, the appeal would go to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which keeps statistics on reversal rates on its web site. Last I looked, the reversal rate was somewhere…
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