How Form 8865 Imposed 2023-2024

I turned, Steve, welcome back to another exciting episode of Federal Court Lawyer. Okay, so we are talking in this video about this very simple question: what happens in federal courts? So, I get clients that ask me, you know, "Hey Attorney Steve, we're going into federal court, how does it work? What happens?" So, this is gonna be a general overview. This is not going to be in-depth. There are lots of little pieces to this, and some of these things I've done videos on, so I'll let you know, but this is a general overview of federal court and timeline. Okay, so generally in a case, let's just take for example a software infringement case. One competitor wants to sue another for software infringement. So, let's just say the pre-litigation steps would be pretty basic. You might have a cease-and-desist letter, that's the C and D, or you might have a demand letter. Okay, the demand letter may be requesting monetary payment for past licensing fee and damages. So, you have this pre-litigation. If that goes awry and they say no, we're not paying you a penny, we're not infringing anything, you may need to send a litigation hold letter, and I have a blog on that if you want Attorney Steve's litigation hold letter. You may need to send a hold letter telling them to preserve all evidence. Okay, no spoiling. Federal court judges do not like spoiling. Okay, so from there we go into the litigation phase. If that's not successful, and that's not to say you have to do this, by the way, but under some statutes, you know, like the Consumer Legal Remedies Act in California, you need to file the demand letter and give them a chance to cure the problem before you bring suit....