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Market Value is the Price of Holdover Tenancy

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 10.12.10

A tenant has an implied duty to vacate at the end of the lease term and, when a contract does not specify the rate to apply, a holdover tenant must pay damages at the market lease rate. In J. Leonard Spodek, the PSBCA averaged the calculations of each party's expert appraisal after finding that one expert had understated and the other overstated the market rate.

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.20.25

Design Patent Application Drawings & Prosecution History Must Be Clear (Merely Translucent Won’t Suffice!)

Design patents offer protection for the ornamental appearance of a product, focusing on aspects like its shape and surface decoration, as opposed to the functional aspects protected by utility patents. The scope of a design patent is defined by the drawings and any descriptive language within the patent itself. Recent decisions by the Federal Circuit emphasize the need for clarity in the prosecution history of a design patent in order to preserve desired scope to preserve intentional narrowing (and to avoid unintentional sacrifice of desired claim scope)....