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This month Hansen IP Law moved into a new office at 283 E. Frank Street in Birmingham, Michigan. We are pleased to join the Birmingham business community. Birmingham is a vibrant area and a great place to meet with our clients. Stay tuned!

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This month Intellectual Property Today published the article “Strategies for Litigating Software Copyright Infringement Cases,” which was co-authored by Hansen IP Law owner Steve Hansen and Dr. Richard Turley, a professor of Computer Information Systems at Colorado State University.  To see the article, click here.

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On February 7, 2011, Steve Hansen and Enoch Liang of Lee Tran & Liang APLC will be speaking on the use of design patents and trade dress in the footwear industry at the ENKWSA show in Las Vegas.  The show is being held from February 6-8 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center. “I serve as Senior Counsel to Lee Tran & Liang in patent litigation matters and am excited to be speaking with Enoch Liang at this event,” said Mr. Hansen.  “Enoch and I both have extensive experience in the application of intellectual property law in the footwear industry and are grateful for this opportunity.”  For more details on the show, click here.

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On January 26, 2012, Steve Hansen spoke to the IT Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan on “Strategies for Litigating Software Copyright Cases.”  The presentation described techniques for overcoming hurdles imposed by the legal standards for evaluating software copyright infringement.  Mr. Hansen described some of the “expressive” aspects of software that are potentially protectable by copyright and how to use those aspects to build a non-infringement defense.

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On February 7, 2012, Hansen IP Law Owner Steve Hansen and Enoch Liang of Lee Tran & Liang presented “Protecting Your Footwear Designs—Design Patent and Trade Dress” to a group of footwear companies at the ENKWSA show in Las Vegas.  “We were very pleased by the number of attendees as well as their insightful questions and level of engagement, ” said Mr. Hansen.  “The unauthorized use of intellectual property is rampant in the footwear industry, and we explained how design patents and trade dress protection can be used to protect valuable shoe designs.  Enoch and I are very grateful to have had this opportunity to share our experience with the ENKWSA attendees,” said Mr. Hansen.

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On April 5, 2012, Steve Hansen will present a webinar on the Yahoo v. Facebook case.  The webinar is entitled “Yahoo v. Facebook, Statutory Subject Mater Defense May be Key.”  The webinar will discuss the scope of the lawsuit and the subject matter of the Yahoo patents as well as how recent statutory subject matter case law may provide Facebook with a defense to many of Yahoo’s claims.  The webinar is being offered by NALS, the National Association for Legal Professionals and is open to both members and non-members of NALS.  For registration information, click here. The webinar will expand on the initial discussion of the case which we posted on the Business of Patents blog.

On April 18, 2012 the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter published an article by Steve Hansen entitled “The Increased Scrutiny of Reasonable Royalty Damages Awards.” The article examines the evolving and increasing standard of proof applied to reasonable royalty patent infringement damage awards by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and whether such standards may conflict with the statutory mandate that patent holders be awarded at least a reasonable royalty upon a finding of patent infringement.   For a copy of the article, click here.