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PUBLICATIONS
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The Case for Contribution in Patent Law, (forthcoming 2011). This paper was selected as a winner of a Samsung/Stanford Patent Prize.
Breaking Aro’s Commandment: Recognizing that Inventions Have Heart, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. XX, Book 4 (2010).
Hadidi, Mammen, Respess, and Sauer, "Inequitable Conduct Before the PTO:  What Standard Should Be Adopted by the Federal Circuit?", panel discussion at the September 23, 2010 meeting of the San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association.
The firm represented a group of 22 patent prosecution firms and practitioners as amici in the Federal Circuit en banc appeal Therasense et al. v. Becton Dickinson et al. Click here for brief
Millauer, The § 102(b) Foreign Filing Catch
Law 360, New York (January 28, 2010)
Chao, "Damages: The Courts Beat Congress to Patent Reform (Again)"
IP Law 360 (Aug. 31, 2009) reprinted in New York State Science and Technology Law Center’s, Innovation e-Review (September 2009)
Barker and Hadidi, “Patent Opinions, Willfulness and Inducement”
The Intellectual Property Strategist (June 2009)
Chao, "Rethinking Enablement in the Predictable Arts: Fully Scoping the New Rule"
Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 3 (2009), reprinted in the ICFAI Journal of IPR, Vol. VIII No.3&4 (August & November 2009), and reprinted in Intellectual Property Review, Thomson West 2010 ed.
Chao, "The Shifting Battleground: Focusing on Enablement”
Vol. 34, No. 2 New Matter (2009)
The firm acted as pro bono appellate counsel in a successful asylum petition (Zhang v. Mukasey) before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Click here for brief
Hadidi, "Strategies and Tactics in Patent Disputes - Selected Topics"
Presentation at September 2008 Farella Braun & Martell LLP IP Breakfast Program (Co-authored with Bob Sloss)
Chao, "After eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange : The Changing Landscape for Patent Remedies"
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, Vol.9, Issue 2 (2008), reprinted in Patent Law Review, (2009 ed., Thomson West)
  Chao, Willfulness and Opinions
5th Patent Strategies Conference, March 26, 2008 (presented with Mikhail Lotvin)
Chao, "Obtaining Advice of Counsel After Seagate"
Vol. 32, No. 4 New Matter (2007)
  Barker, "Why You Should Consider The ITC Option"
Managing Intellectual Property, April 2003 (Co-authored with Stewart Brown)



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