SOUTHFIELD, Mich., March 28, 2011 – On March 18, a jury awarded Cheetah Omni LLC $5.4 million in damages against three subsidiaries of Verizon Communi...

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Brooks Kushman patent litigation attorney, Christopher Smith offers insight to ASM News on the career path to becoming a patent attorney. Patent...

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Publication:2008-2009 Michigan Business Review

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Reprinting permission: Egyptian Goddess: Filing Down the Design Patent Infringement Test to Ensure a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, IPLS Proceedin...

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Six lawyers from the intellectual property (IP) law firm Brooks Kushman P.C. were named to the Super Lawyers list for 2008. Southfield, Mich.-based Brooks Kushman has more lawyers included in the IP categories of the 2008 Super Lawyers list than any other law firm in Michigan. The Super Lawyers list recognizes outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

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John M. Halan, a shareholder and lawyer with Brooks Kushman P.C., has been invited to serve on the Engineering Technology Industrial Advisory Board of Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Mich.
“I’m honored to be on the Lawrence Tech Advisory Board,” Halan said. “As a former engineering student myself, I will take pride in doing my part to help ensure the integrity of the engineering technology program at Lawrence Tech, so that its graduates are fully prepared to take their place as industry leaders.”

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Publication:2008-2009 Michigan Business Review

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On July 21, 2008, the United States District Court, Central District of California, entered an order dismissing with prejudice the claims of patent infringement that Bravo Sports, Inc. had made against NorthPole Limited, NorthPole (US) LLC, and NorthPole (China) Limited. The NorthPole companies make and sell a wide variety of outdoor, leisure and recreational products worldwide.

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Five lawyers from Brooks Kushman P.C. have been named to the 2007 “Michigan Super Lawyers” listing. “Super Lawyers” identifies the top five percent of attorneys in each state, as chosen by their peers and through independent research of Law & Politics magazine.

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     Brooks Kushman announced today that Daniel M. Stock, former in-house counsel at Ford Motor Co., has recently joined the law firm. The announcement was made by Ernie L. Brooks, president and founding partner.

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Two of our lawyers - Ernie Brooks and Bill Abbatt - were recognized as "SuperLawyers" in the field of Intellectual Property, in the first Michigan SuperLawyers Listing published by Law & Politics, after a multi-step selection process. That process included a survey of all lawyers in Michigan who have been in practice at least five years and a blue ribbon review panel of leading attorneys from each practice area.

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David Syrowik presents a comprehensive review of computer and Internet case law handed down in 2006.

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On August 10th, 2006, John Halan and Marc Malooley gave a presentation to a group of engineers at the Legal Issues for Michigan Professional Engineers seminar in Ann Arbor, MI. The presentation focused on intellectual property rights for the professional engineer. Topics included protecting copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets.

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In April, a jury in the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler) awarded $133 million to Michigan-based, z4 Technologies in a patent dispute with Microsoft a...

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Venue:2006 Intellectual Property Spring Seminar

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Publication:Security Management Magazine

Venue:On behalf of Michigan Intellectual Property Law Association to members of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

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IP Law and Business

Brooks Kushman is listed among the top 10 IP firms in IP Law & Business magazine's annual Who Protects IP America survey of the Fortune 250 companies. The survey mentions Brooks Kushman five times in the annual review of IP counsel. Brooks Kushman ties for fourth in patent prosecution and ties for eleventh in top IP firms overall.

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Venue:Society of Plastics Engineers Automotive Composites Conference (Troy, Michigan)

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Publication:Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal

Reprinting permission: Reprinted with permission from the December 2004 issue of Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal

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IP Law & Business magazine lists Brooks Kushman as one of the top 10 IP firms according to the Fortune 250 in the Who Protects IP America survey. The survey mentions Brooks Kushman five times in the annual review of IP counsel.

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Digital World Magazine

There are an increasing number of international sites offering music downloads at low prices with few copyright restrictions. Sites based in Russia and Spain claim to be legitimate, but Tom Lewry warns that bargain hunters should beware, “My advice would be stay away from them because you run the risk of being sued.”

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Publication:Detroit Legal News, Vol. CIX No. 204

In the recent en banc decision of

Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmBH v. Dana Corp.,

Nos. 01-1357, -1376, 02-1221, -1256, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 19185 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 13, 2004), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overruled the “adverse inference” rule which relates to willful infringement in patent cases.

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Publication:Intellectual Property Litigation Reporter, Vol. 11, Issue 12

On Aug. 5, 2004, U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman of the Eastern District of Michigan entered judgment against Ford Motor Co.'s former customs broker in a landmark case that received worldwide attention from the customs brokerage industry. Caught up in this multimillion-dollar trade secrets dispute between Ford's former customs broker and its new customs service provider was an individual named Jennifer Sharkey, the only named defendant in this case.

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Venue:Women Lawyers Association of Michigan

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Publication:Oakland County Legal News

Bill Abbatt, a partner at Brooks Kushman, highlights important issues surrounding the protection of slogans, including:

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Publication:Detroit Legal News

Bill Abbatt, a partner at Brooks Kushman, highlights important issues surrounding the protection of slogans, including:

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Publication:Crain's Detroit Business

In an article about the increase in intellectual property litigation in recent years, Ernie Brooks commented, “a pendulum swing in court rulings upholding patents that began in the mid-1960s helped propel interest and activity in intellectual- property litigation.”

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Venue:Institute of Continuing Legal Education

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Publication:Bloomberg

This article notes that Novell Inc. will pay some clients if they are sued for copyright infringement to blunt the impact of threatened suits against Linux users. IBM and Intel pledged to contribute to a defense fund and Hewlett-Packard has agreed to indemnify its customers. Tom Lewry commented that, “The fund means there's money there to fight lawsuits, instead of giving clients money afterward as an indemnification program would”.

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Publication:Intellectual Property Litigation Reporter

A federal appellate court recently ruled that the RIAA cannot obtain the identities of file traders from their ISPs. Tom Lewry commented, "This is obviously going to put a huge monkey wrench" into the RIAA's plans to continue filing lawsuits against individual file traders. “However, the decision will not help the hundreds of individuals who have been sued by the RIAA over the past several months after the group obtained their identities from their ISPs. These cases are not like criminal cases in which information can be suppressed by a judge who finds that it was obtained illegally.”

Lewry represented four college students sued by RIAA for copyright infringement last year.

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Publication:NewsFactor Network

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article that discusses a new study about ethical issues related to downloading copyrighted music.

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Publication:Wired News

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article regarding the music industry’s plans to offer so-called “amnesty” to file traders who come forward and promise not download files in the future.

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Southfield, Mich. – Attorneys with the intellectual property law firm Brooks Kushman P.C. settled a $62.5 million suit on behalf of Hilgraeve, Inc. vs. Symantec Corporation, just days before the case was to go to trial. As part of the settlement, Symantec, an Internet security company based in Cupertino, Calif., purchased a key security technology patent asset from Hilgraeve, Inc., a privately-held communications software company based in Monroe, Mich.

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Publication:America's Network

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article that discusses whether ISPs should be responsible for the billions of files that are downloaded each month from popular P2P networks.

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Publication:Telephony

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article from the June 16, 2003, issue of

Telephony

about the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) seemingly cautious pursuit of Internet music piracy.

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Publication:Corporate Counsellor

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Publication:DMCA Alert

Thomas Lewry was quoted in the April 2003 issue of the DMCA Alert regarding the difficulties new encrypted peer-to-peer software programs present to college IT managers responsible for enforcing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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Publication:RadioandRecords.com

An article in the April 28, 2003

PM Update

on

RadioandRecords.com

quoted Tom Lewry about the decision by a Los Angeles federal judge that Grokster Ltd, StreamCast Networks Inc. and Kazaa BV are not liable for copyright infringement committed by users of their file-sharing software.

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Publication:Intellectual Property Law Institute

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Publication:University of Toledo Law Review, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 683

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Venue:Intellectual Property Law Institute Judge's Seminar

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Venue:The Intellectual Property Litigation Conference, Law Seminars International, Atlanta, GA

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Venue:ALI-ABA Course of Study: Antitrust/Intellectual Property Claims in High Technology Markets: Litigating & Advising, Boston, MA

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Venue:Computer Law Conference, Law Seminars International, Seattle, WA

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