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Virginia LawyerVOL. 67/NO. 6 • April 2019 VIRGINIA LAWYER REGISTER The Official Publication of the Virginia State Bar Todd A. Pilot The Trademark Institute Intellectual Property Virginia Is for Inventors Beyond Trademark Registration Applying IPR Estoppel in District Court Trade Secrets Law Plus, A 1970s Virginia Law Student’s View of the Watergate Hearings Virginia Lawyer The Official Publication of the Virginia State Bar April 2019 Volume 67/Number 6 Features Noteworthy INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW VSB NEWS 18 Virginia is for Inventors 46 Highlights of the February 23, 2019, 19 Intellectual Property Law Section: Active and Welcoming Virginia State Bar Council Meeting by Timothy J. Lockhart, chair, and Robert M. Tyler, chair-elect 20 How Inter Partes Review Estoppel Applies (or Does Not Apply) in District Court by P. Andrew Riley 24 Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus to Spawn New 46 Annual Criminal Law Seminar Patent Ecosystem in Northern Virginia Addresses Reforms and Issues by Philippe Signore 47 Vote in 2019 Bar Council Elections 26 A Fresh Look: The Defend Trade Secrets Act and Recent Developments 47 Bar Welcomes by Charles B. Molster III and Mary C. Zinsner Cameron Rountree as Deputy Executive 30 Beyond Trademark Registration: What Companies Need to Know About Director Protecting Their Trademark Rights 48 The Bar’s Special by Robin Cooke Vance Committee on the 34 Always in Style: Intellectual Property in Clothing and Fashion Brands Future of Law Practice Releases by Joan Bellefield Davis Final Report 48 Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations GENERAL INTEREST 49 In Memoriam 37 Todd Pilot: Java Jackets, Physics, and the Meat Department by Deirdre Norman 39 The Watergate Scandal: What a Law Student Learned About Departments the Rule of Law by Frederick M. Bruner 6 Forum 42 Renters and Landlords Benefit from Virginia Reforms 58 CLE Calendar by Helen Hardiman and Clarence Dunnaville 63 81st Annual Meeting 67 Professional Notices VIRGINIA LAWYER REGISTER 69 Classified Ads 70 Advertiser’s Index 60 Disciplinary Summaries 61 VSB Disciplinary Board to 61 Disciplinary Proceedings Hear Ann Bridgeforth Tribbey’s Reinstatement Petition on June 61 Supreme Court of Virginia Seeks 28, 2019 Comment on Proposed Change to Columns Rule 3.8 61 Peter W. Buchbauer Receives Family Law Section’s 2019 Lifetime 12 President’s Message 61 Supreme Court of Virginia Achievement Award Amends Rules on File Formats for 14 Executive Director’s Message Documents 61 Annual Meeting 16 Bar Counsel’s Message 61 MCLE Board Seeks Comments on 61 Indigent Criminal Defense Seminar 50 Law Libraries Amendments to MCLE Regulations 62 Clients’ Protection Fund Board 51 Risk Management 61 The Bar’s Special Committee on Pays $51,123 to Petitioners the Future of Law Practice Releases 52 Technology and the Practice of Law Final Report Cover: Intellectual property attorney Todd A. Pilot stands in front of a statue of President George Washington, who signed the U.S. Patent Act into law in 1790. Photo by Deirdre Norman. Post production by Sky Noir Photography. Virginia Lawyer Virginia State Bar The Official Publication of the Virginia State Bar 2018–19 OFFICERS 15th Circuit Leonard C. Heath Jr., President Jennifer L. Parrish, Fredericksburg www.vsb.org Marni E. 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Jest Is For All by Arnie Glick 6 VIRGINIA LAWYER | February 2019 | Vol. 67 www.vsb.org Forum A Landlord’s Point of View landlord can send out a “Five Day The February article, “A Tale of Two Delinquent Notice” is the sixth of the Evictions,” by Helen Hardiman and month. That is the statutory required Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr., begs for a notice to the delinquent tenant that response. After 41 years in the general the tenant must pay the rent within practice of law, I am now what a former five days of receipt of the notice or partner calls “a recovering lawyer,” vacate the premises. That day is also which means retired. Having acquired the point when the landlord can several residential rental properties, file, in the General District Court, a being a landlord now occupies my Summons for Unlawful Detainer to time. So, this missive is from that ask for the unpaid rent and possession standpoint. of the property. The minimum court First of all, owning/managing cost is $54. My experience is that a residential rental properties, whether court date is set for about 30 to 45 days they be apartment units or houses, hence. Keep in mind the tenant is still is a business with the goal of making in the premises. On that court date, a profit — it is not a social service the tenant may appear and ask for a continuance to get representation, or benefit to tenants.