At McKool Smith we’re as likely to author commentaries about the latest advancements in technology or the life sciences as we are to write about the law.   We highly value scholarship and see the publication of original works as an opportunity to contribute our experience and expertise to the greater good.  Please review our library of original article submissions below:

June 2007
Expanding Jurisdiction over Patent Challenges
Feasibility of the Language Policy of the European Union
October 2006
Panelist "Opinions of Counsel & Waiver of Privilege after EchoStar
"Obtaining Evidence in Germany for U.S. Patent Litigation"
June 2006
"Survival Strategies for the New IP Economy"
May 22, 2006
"Patently Better Odds"
April 1, 2006
NTP v. RIM - Everything You Wanted to Know About the Blackberry Litigation But Were Afraid to Ask
March 2006
"Asia Licensing Fever"
December 2005
Federal Circuit Update
September 2005
Phillips panel
September 2005
What Lawyers Should Know About Internet Predators
August 1, 2005
Are Experts Required?
July 2005
Phillips en-banc
April 15, 2005
"Patent Trolls Be Warned"
Collateral Estoppel and Claim Construction Orders: Finality Problems and Vacatur Solutions
"Strategies for Defending Against The Patent Litigation Gold Rush in the United States"
July 2, 2004
"So You’ve Been Accused of Patent Infringement…"
May 2004
"Inter Partes Reexamination"
September 2003
On-Sale Bar's Broad Application Demonstrated in Recent Cadence Victory over Mentor
June 1, 2002
The Development and Disposition of Business Method Patents
January 2002
“Standards and Timeliness in Medical Insurance Actions: The Insured's Perspective”
June 2001
“Enabling the Disabled: How to Pick, Plead and Prevail in a Disability Bad Faith Case,”
Co-author of the “Annual Survey of Texas Law-Texas Civil Procedure”
January 1, 2001
Litigating the Patent Case, Co-Chair
“Disabling the Disability Carrier: The Insurer's Top 10 Defenses and How to Defeat Them,”
January 2001
“Insureds' Health vs. Insurers' Wealth: Bad Faith in the Healthcare Industry,”
“How to Pick an Insurance Bad Faith Case and Win It”
January 1, 2000
Litigating the Patent Case, Co-Chair
"Filling the Black Hole in Cyberspace: Legal Protections for Online Privacy"
"Inventorship"
"Permanent Injunctions After eBay v. MercExchange: The Year in Review"
"The Prior User Right"
Active-site Determination of a Pyrimidine
Chlorella Virus Pyrimidine Dimer Glycosylase
Round Table Participant, Managing the Identification, Valuation, Protection and Disposition of Intellectual Property
The Catalytic Mechanism of a Pyrimidine Dimer-specific
The Clone Wars: The Growing Debate over Federal Cloning Legislation
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