Insights
October 6, 2017 "CAFC's Aqua Products Decision Almost Certainly Guarantees PTAB Will be at Top of New USPTO Director's To-do List" (featured quotes) Intellectual Asset Management Michael Weiner
October 5, 2017 "Petitioners Must Prove Unpatentability of Amended Claims in IPR" (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Michael Weiner
September 22, 2017 "Amgen Gets $70M in Biosimilar Patent Suit Against Hospira" (featured quotes) Law360 John Labbé
August 3, 2017 – Presentation "Protecting and Licensing Mobile Applications" Code for the Mission Lunch-N-Learn Seminar Andrew Bateman and Julie M. Watson
June 28, 2017 "Lessons From This Year's High Court IP Rulings: Part 2" (featured quotes) Law360 Robert Gerstein
June 27, 2017 “Lessons From This Year's High Court IP Rulings: Part 1” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas L. Duston
June 21, 2017 “U.S. Top Court Finds Law Banning Offensive Trademarks Unconstitutional” (featured quotes) Westlaw Journal Intellectual Property Gregory Chinlund
June 20, 2017 “‘Simple and Correct’ or ‘Tremendous Damage to Minorities?’ Opinion Split on Matal v. Tam Decision” (featured quotes) World Trademark Review Gregory Chinlund
June 19, 2017 “Viewpoint Discrimination in the Lanham Act: No More?” Marshall Gerstein Alert Gregory Chinlund
May 31, 2017 “Lexmark: Good for Consumers, Bad for Manufacturers” (featured quotes) Intellectual Property Magazine Robert Gerstein
May 31, 2017 “U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Federal Circuit Patent Exhaustion Stance in Impression v. Lexmark” (featured quotes) Managing Intellectual Property Robert Gerstein
May 30, 2017 “Supreme Court Limits Use of Patents to Enforce Post-Sale Restrictions” Marshall Gerstein Alert Robert Gerstein
May 30, 2017 “Patent Exhaustion at the Supreme Court: Industry Reaction to Impression Products v. Lexmark” (featured quotes) IPWatchdog Robert Gerstein
May 30, 2017 “SC Ruling Signals New Era for Software Patent Enforcement” (featured quotes) TechNewsWorld Thomas L. Duston
May 25, 2017 “Where to File Patent Complaints After High Court Venue Ruling?” (featured quotes) Bloomberg BNA Thomas L. Duston
May 23, 2017 “Supreme Court Upends Thirty Years of Patent Litigation, Declaring for Venue Purposes That Corporate Defendants ‘Reside’ Only Where Incorporated” Marshall Gerstein Alert Thomas L. Duston
May 22, 2017 “High Court Rocks 25 Years of Patent-Venue Precedent” (featured quotes) Courthouse News Service Thomas L. Duston
May 22, 2017 “Industry Reaction to SCOTUS Patent Venue Decision in TC Heartland v. Kraft Food Group” (featured quotes) IPWatchdog Thomas L. Duston
May 17, 2017 – Presentation “Fee Shifting in Patent Litigation” IP Defense Summit–Chicago Thomas L. Duston
May 10, 2017 – Presentation “Fee Shifting in Patent Litigation” IP Defense Summit–Boston Benjamin T. Horton
March 28, 2017 “Apart at the Seams – Copyright Protection for Apparel: Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc.” Marshall Gerstein Alert Gregory Chinlund and Michelle Bolos
March 28, 2017 “Impression v. Lexmark Arguments Analysis: When Are Patent Rights Exhausted?” (featured quotes) Managing Intellectual Property Robert Gerstein
March 24, 2017 “SCOTUS Reviews ‘Long and Tortured’ Patent Exhaustion Doctrine” (featured quotes) Intellectual Property Magazine Robert Gerstein
March 24, 2017 “Forum Shopping Case to be Heard Next Week” (featured quotes) IPPro Patents Benjamin T. Horton
March 23, 2017 “Reaction: SCOTUS’ Varsity Ruling Will ‘Haunt the Courts’” (featured quotes) Intellectual Property Magazine Julianne M. Hartzell
March 22, 2017 “US Supreme Court Finds Cheerleading Uniform Designs Copyright Eligible” (featured quotes) Managing Intellectual Property Julianne M. Hartzell
March 22, 2017 “Did SCOTUS Miss Change to Fine-Tune IP Protection for Apparel?” (featured quotes) New York Law Journal Julianne M. Hartzell
March 22, 2017 “Impression v. Lexmark: SCOTUS Questions Patent Exhaustion Rules” (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Robert Gerstein
March 22, 2017 “SCOTUS Laches Ruling Won't Have ‘Monumental’ Impact, Says Lawyers” (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Thomas L. Duston
March 22, 2017 “Patent Owners Can Wait to Sue, Get Six Years Damages” (featured quotes) Bloomberg BNA Thomas L. Duston
March 22, 2017 “SCOTUS Weakens Laches as a Defence” (featured quotes) IPPro Patents Thomas L. Duston
March 21, 2017 “Justices’ Laches Decision Could Be Boon For Patent Owners” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas L. Duston
March 20, 2017 “SCOTUS to Decide Patent Exhaustion Question” (featured quotes) IPPro Patents Robert Gerstein
March 15, 2017 – Presentation “Patent Cases to Watch in 2017” Intellectual Property Law Symposium Tiffany D. Gehrke
March 14, 2017 – Presentation “The Diminishing Returns of Venture Philanthropy” AUTM Annual Meeting Robert Gerstein
March 14, 2017 – Presentation “Intellectual Property Dispute Settlement in Life Sciences” AUTM Annual Meeting Pamela Cox
March 13, 2017 – Presentation “Are You Wasting Too Much Time on Non-license Agreements?” AUTM Annual Meeting Julie M. Watson
March 2, 2017 “Lee v. Tam” Intellectual Property Magazine Gregory Chinlund and Michelle Bolos
March 2, 2017 – Presentation “Patent Owners and Petitioners Weigh In” PTAB Bar Association Inaugural Conference Sandip H. Patel
February 24, 2017 “Life Technologies Corp. Establishes a Quantitative Test Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(1)” Marshall Gerstein Alert William K. Merkel, Ph.D.
February 23, 2017 – Presentation “Avoiding Willful Infringement Under the Evolving Willfulness Standard” IP Strategy Summit: Orange County Mark H. Izraelewicz
February 21, 2017 “Groupon Succeeds in Fed Circuit Patent Fight” (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Thomas L. Duston
February 20, 2017 “Evolutionary Intelligence Patents Dismissed” (featured quotes) IPPro Patents Thomas Duston
February 17, 2017 “Apple, Tech Giants Win Data Patent Dispute At Fed. Circ.” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas L. Duston
February 16, 2017 “From forum-shopping to the UPC: 10 IP issues to watch in 2017” (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Gregory Chinlund
February 14, 2017 “10 Years of MedImmune: What Trademark Owners Learned” Law360 Michelle Bolos
February 13, 2017 “What You Should Know Before Requesting A PTAB Rehearing” (featured quotes) Law360 Julianne M. Hartzell
January 26, 2017 “AIA Estoppel Provision Not As Restricted As Many Expected” (featured quotes) Law360 Sandip H. Patel
January 23, 2017 “Racial slurs, free speech at issue in ‘Slants’ trademark case (U.S.)” (featured quotes) Westlaw Journal, Intellectual Property Gregory Chinlund
January 20, 2017 “‘The Slants’ SCOTUS trademark battle hearing begins” (featured quotes) Intellectual Property Magazine Gregory Chinlund