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© 2011 Frederic M. Douglas.   All Rights Reserved. When responding to interrogatories propounded in federal litigation, take care to comply with federal rules, local rules, and good practices.  Another concern should always be responding well to further your position.  Responses should be served on time.  Failure to...

A songwriting agreement often provides for a share of royalties that may vary depending on the category of use.  These categories include foreign rights, movie rights, mechanical licenses, public performances, synchronization licenses, print rights, and other categories.  Most agreements between a publisher and a songwriter contain a catch-all paragraph for a miscellaneous...

© 2011 Frederic M. Douglas.   All Rights Reserved. People often want to form a band or other musical group to get gigs, record music, and basically, make money in exchanging for plunking on instruments and looking cool.  However, you need to make sure that the problems do not cause the...

© F. M. Douglas 2010.   All Rights Reserved. “Trade Name” is also called a “Fictitious Business Name (FBN)” or “Doing Business As (DBA)” A “trade name” is a name an owner uses to identify his/her business while a “trademark” is used to identify a good or...

Litigation is expensive. Lawyers and experts usually charge by the hour. Seeing as time is money and travel consumes both time and money, a great deal of mock trial preparation costs can be lessened by cutting excess time and travel. To understand what parts to cut, let's look first...

© Frederic M. Douglas 2010.  All Rights Reserved. Patent litigation is discovery-intensive.  However, the maximum number of interrogatories propounded is twenty-five unless you get court approval.  So ask efficiently.  Each case is different; there is no routine case.  In that direction, an accused infringer should consider the following topics...

 Recently several private parties have sued on behalf of the U.S. government against patent owners for “false marking.”  They are asserting that the patent owners put a patent number on products that are not covered by the patent.  These suits may be lucrative because the maximum damages are $500 per item (not per patent)...

Where Should You FIle Your Patent Suit? – http://bit.ly/hGxS96 Prof. Lemley of Stanford studied over 21,000 patent suits since 2000 and determined which locations are likely to be beneficial to defendants, plaintiffs, and going to trial.

Copyright Office Wants Input On Copyrights For Pre-1972 Music Recordings – http://bit.ly/91xaOL

Copyright 2010 Frederic M. Douglas.  All Rights Reserved. 1. When you get your stroke of genius and come up with an idea, WRITE IT DOWN! You need to create a record of invention before going any further. You should list: (a) A full...

https://www.avvo.com/assets/badges-v2.jsLawyer Frederic Douglas | Featured Attorney Litigation Patent Infringement Litigation throughout the U.S. (plaintiff and defendant). Prosecution and preparation of provisional, utility and PCT patent applications in the biomedical, electronic, chemical, energy, desalination, aviation,electrophotograpy, business methods,...