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Newhope Law, PC dba Law Office of Clement Cheng (since 1999) We provide
legal assistance with patents (protecting inventions), trademarks
(protecting company names and logos) and copyrights (protecting artistic
expression). Afterwards, we
can provide counseling for licensing, infringement and other matters. We
can also handle State or Federal court litigation.
Our
philosophy is creative efficiency:
The
office system thus applies the Toyota Production System philosophy
of decreasing waste (無駄). The office system is routinely reviewed
for ways to decrease waste. The office system uses up to date electronic calendaring, and
electronic document capabilities so that clients receive legal files
electronically and in more organized fashion than a traditional paper
file. Patent and Trademark
office documents, court documents and litigation documents are scanned and
filed electronically. Office procedures automatically provide a copy of a filing receipt to the
client. The entire office file
is backed up routinely.
The office is networked on Gigabit Ethernet with PC’s
running late versions of Windows so clients don't pay for down time. Attorneys using
computer voice dictation save time dictating documents (up to 100 wpm) without dictation
expense billed to the client.
Using Exchange Server, all members of the office share the same calendar, and
dockets maintaining an efficient operation connecting all members of the
office. Even the Windows Server is efficient, the Intel Atom board using less than 20 Watts.
Without
efficiency, there can be no value because costs balloon out of control
and litigation costs quickly go seven digit. Just as the low
cost of overseas labor makes manufacturing difficult for those who are
less efficient, even the most educated, and
most intelligent legal team can not win for their client without
being efficient. Example #1 in American Mensa, Ltd. v. Inpharmatica, Ltd. et al.,
No. 07-3283 (D. Md filed Dec. 6, 2007) Mensa (the high IQ
society) spent over a million dollars in Ferderal Court and lost,
unable to stop the sales of AdMensa IQ enhancing product. Mensa
was then forced to raid $600,000
from life membership funds. If the lawsuit had only cost about
$100,000 by hiring a small firm for a TTAB action (limited to
likelihood of confusion), there would have been little pain and
still enough money to fight a dozen battles. By hiring the
expensive attorneys, Mensa lost the war before it even
started. Thus, in the long run, high
intelligence and education are no match for creative
efficiency since creative efficiency is what keeps costs under control.
Clement Cheng supports Mensa as a life member and is greatly
saddened by the financial losses. Example
#2 scanning electronic discovery, OCR and using Google desktop to query
key words shortens document review hours greatly. The old
fashioned way doing 40hrs document review times $350/hr equals $14,000
can not win vs. the electronic automated method and less expensive
attorney at 4hrs document review times $200/hr for $800.
Especially since these bills come in every month in protracted
litigation. 
Please contact Clement Cheng, Esq. by
email if you have any questions.
Orange
County Office:
17220 Newhope Street #127
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Phone 714-825-0555
Fax 714-825-0558 (less preferred due to line noise and low resolution)
LA Office:
17800 Castleton St Ste 265
City of Industry CA 91748-5848
626-688-8529
Vegas Office:
848 N. Rainbow Blvd. #1793
Las Vegas, NV 89107
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