Use LinkedIn for 2020 Networking

• Author: Lindsay Sestile
• Pages: 16-17

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Use LinkedIn for 2020

Networking

While there is no silver bullet for networking and relation-

ship building, social media can supersize lawyers’ eorts.

Zen and the Art of Legal Networking’s Lindsay Griths

provides tips to leverage your use of LinkedIn this year:

(1) Ensure you have a complete and up-to-date prof‌ile.

Potential clients need to know what problems you can

solve for them. (2) Make LinkedIn a page that auto-

matically opens on your browser and install the app on

your phone. The app allows you to interact with people

for those few inevitable moments of waiting during your

day. (3) Reach out to someone in some way every day by

commenting on or liking a post. (4) Actively participate

in groups relevant to your practice by asking questions,

posting articles, and engaging others. (5) Take the rela-

tionship oine by oering to meet someone for coee or lunch, and use travel as an

opportunity to meet up with non-locals. Also, help make connections between people in

your network. According to Griths, these small changes in your approach to LinkedIn

will add up to big results if done consistently.

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Curing a Premature Patent

Appeal

Most patent infringement litigation

reaches the Fed eral Circuit unde r

the “f‌inal jud gment rule,” whic h

creates appella te jurisdiction over

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cases appea led from a f‌inal dec i-

sion of a district co urt. In a patent

case involving infringement claims

and invalidity de fenses, with limite d

exceptions, both mu st be resolved

before appeal . Reporting on the

Federal Circuit ’s decision in Amgen

v. Amn eal for Pate ntly-O, De nnis

Crouch notes the dis trict court is-

sued an infring ement decision

against Zydus but di d not resolve

whether the asserted patent was

valid and enforceable. Nonetheless,

Zydus appealed , including only a

conclusory jurisdictional statement.

While Amgen di d not challenge ju ris-

diction in its bri ef‌ing, the appellate

court—independently obligated to

ensure its jurisdiction—raised the

issue at oral argu ment. After court-

room consultatio n with his client,

Zydus’s attorney agree d to cede

the invalidity def ense, which the

Federal Circuit fo und sucient to

cure jurisdicti on. Crouch notes on e

failure of lawyeri ng: Though the dis-

trict court ’s judgment was n ot f‌inal,

it included a pe rmanent injun ction

against Zydus, o ne of the exceptions

to the f‌inal judgm ent rule. Beca use

a district cour t’s decisions involving

injunctive relie f are directly appe al-

able, Crouch concludes Zydus had

proper grounds for jurisdiction with-

out giving up its inva lidity defense .

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