January2016

Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Hi folks, here is your weekly IP news round up: VirnetX is seeking $532 million in damages from Apple in their patent infringement retrial. In 2012, VirnetX settled the initial suit...

Jan. 29, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Morning people, here’s what we’re watching: A new civil trial stemming from the death of  Juvenito Hernandez will go ahead against the city of Clovis, NM and three of its police officers....

Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The Waller County, Texas Grand Jury indicted Officer Michael Kelley for tasing a Prairie View City Council member. Kelley was charged with Official Oppression, and even if he is acquitted...

Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Cops shoot stuff. All kinds of stuff. Grown-ups, kids, dogs, random bodies of water. Whatever. They have guns and stuff is there. That stuff should be shot. Because the people...

Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The supposed horror of the so-called “trial tax” has become the hot topic (again). The idea is that defendants who insist on a trial end up with higher sentences than...

Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Chicago is feeling a little sheepish about its cop murdering Laquan McDonald, then fighting disclosure of the crime and encouraging perjury from officers on the scene. It even offered to...

Jan. 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — It is a memory seared into the minds of many a baseball fan. In the lengthy list of highlights for the storied career of arguably baseball’s best pitcher ever, this...

Jan. 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The last time I wrote on the Netflix docudrama, “Making a Murderer,” I took the stance nothing good would come of it. Today I proudly eat my slice of humble...

Jan. 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Ronald Jackson and Michelle Steppe have a daughter together, although they had never been married. That daughter lived with Michelle and for the first years of her life, during which...

Jan. 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — We’re about a month into the New Year now, and except for rulings on emergency matters, the Supreme Court is done until well into February. I’ve already done a couple...