An IP attorney continued his legal education the hard way. He falsely represented to the California Bar that he had completed the mandatory minimum of 25 hours of continuing legal education. In truth, he had completed zero hours of CLE. The result: a one-year suspension. This matter involved California-based patent attorney Jens Edward Hoekendijk. In […]
Lessons in Ethics: Lying About CLE Attendance Is Just So Wrong Read More »
“You’re building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches” – Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman You represent a patentee in a highly contentious litigation against an accused infringer. The parties hate each other, and the gloves came off months ago–if they were ever on in the first place. Then extraordinarily you
OED Discipline For IP Practitioners Who Use “Snitch” Threats For Tactical Gain Read More »
Intellectual Property law firms often receive substantive documents, including original applications and amendments, with “instructions” from their client to file the paper in the USPTO, essentially as is. And just as often, IP counsel dutifully follow their clients’ orders and simply have a non-lawyer “clean up” the document so it “looks” right and, without any substantive
IP Counsel Who Blindly Follow Client “Instructions” Risk Loss Of Law License Read More »
