Duty of Candor – McCabe Ali LLP Law

Mike Presented Risk, Regulation & Resilience: Sound Strategies for Your IP Practice

Michael McCabe — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:05:08 +0000

Mike presented on a panel discussion on risk management strategies for protecting intellectual property practitioners from ethics and malpractice risks. The two-hour webinar was a joint presentation of Continental Casualty Company (CNA) and Herbert L. Jamison and Company (Jamison).

Mike Presented Recent Ethics Enforcement Trends in Patent and Trademark Matters Before the USPTO to Boston IPLA 3rd Annual Symposium

Michael McCabe — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:52:58 +0000

Mike presented on ethics and disciplinary trends for patent and trademark attorneys for the Boston Intellectual Property Law Association 3rd Annual Symposium. Mike addressed multiple topics of interest including:

Conflicts of interest in IP
Knowing your IP client
Duties of pre-filing investigations under 37 CFR 11.18
Unauthorized practice of law and the U.S. Counsel Rule for trademarks

Quoted In Law360: Fed. Circ. Inequitable Conduct Case Alarms IP Ethics Attys

Emil Ali — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

On March 11, 2020, Michael E. McCabe, Jr. and Emil J. Ali were quoted in Law360 (including IP360 and Legal Ethics360) in an article entitled “Fed. Circ. Inequitable Conduct Case Alarms IP Ethics Attys” by Ryan Davis (sub. req’d).

The Law360 article addresses the Federal Circuit’s recent decision that Cantor Colburn attorneys and their client committed inequitable conduct in connection with prosecution of patents asserted by GS CleanTech Corp. in multidistrict patent litigation. See GS CleanTech Corp. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et. al, No. 2016-2231, 2017-1838 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 2, 2020). The Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s finding that the patents-in-suit were unenforceable. We discussed the implication of this decision in our March 5, 2020 blog post (here).