USPTO Disciplines Attorney For Billing $1,000 Hourly “Relationship Fee”
The USPTO settled a disciplinary action filed against a non-patent attorney who billed a client thousands of dollars, at a rate of $1,000 per hour, to prepare a patent application and then, without his client’s knowledge or consent, outsourced the legal work to an unaffiliated patent attorney for a fraction of the fee paid by the client. In re Lehat, No. […]
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