Attorney and Mediator Steve Costello

07/03/2026

02/07/2025

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed I speak with my long-time friend, John White. Many in the patent community no doubt already know John quite well. Over 30 years ago he created the PLI Patent Bar Review Course that upwards of 40,000 patent practitioners have successfully used to study for the Patent...

05/15/2023

There is little doubt that the way patent rights are viewed and protected has transformed over the last 15 to 17 years. The patent system our government has enabled over that timeframe incentivizes stealing patent rights rather than engaging in an arm’s length negotiation.

05/15/2023

The time frame of a person's death determines what law we need to apply. Your father died in the 1970's either without a Will or no action w

05/15/2023

Partition is a statutory process under the Texas Property Code which facilitates the division or sale of real property among joint owners. The situation commonly arises when two or more people inherit undivided interests in real property. Under Texas law, joint owners will not be forced to maintain common ownership of real property unless by agreement. Any owner of an undivided interest in real property may compel a partition in kind or a partition by sale.

"Partition" is the legal term referring to division of real property among joint owners. It may be voluntary, by agreement or partition deed, but that is easy to accomplish

10/19/2022

The CDC is voting to make experimental mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 mandatory for children to attend public school. You can submit your comments on this proposal to https://www.regulations.gov. Written comments must be received on or before October 20, 2022. Comments must refer to Docket No. CDC-2022-0111.

I believe that attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, explains the situation well:

"If you want to know why [there is] such a strong, fierce drive to vaccinate children, you have to understand how the law works. Under the CARES Act and the PREP Act, emergency use authorization vaccines are protected from liability. So as long as it’s an EUA vaccine, you can’t sue them, no matter how reckless their conduct, no matter how grievous your injury, no matter how negligent they are, you cannot sue them.

"Once it becomes an approved vaccine, that shield – that freedom from immunity disappears, and we will be able to sue them — unless it’s a recommended vaccine for children. Because under the childhood vaccine act, any vaccine that is recommended for children automatically receives immunity from liability even when that vaccine is given to an adult.

"So [drug companies] know that [they] cannot afford to give an approved vaccine to any American because attorneys like me will sue them and bankrupt them overnight. We will make them pay for the entire pandemic. But if they can get it approved for children, then they’ll get immunity from liability, and they will not have to deal with the consequences of their behavior."