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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 | 2 min read | 04.15.26

Who Invented That? When AI Writes the Code, Patent Validity Issues May Follow

In Fortress Iron, LP v. Digger Specialties, Inc., No. 24-2313 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 2, 2026), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reaffirmed what happens when a patent incorrectly lists the true inventors, and that error cannot be corrected under 35 U.S.C. § 256(b), which requires notice and a hearing for all “parties concerned.” In Fortress, the patent owner sought judicial correction to add an inventor under § 256(b), but that inventor could not be located. Because the missing inventor qualified as a “concerned” party under the statute, the lack of notice and a hearing for that inventor made correction under § 256(b) impossible, and the patents could not be saved from invalidity....