Insights
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 14, 2017 – Presentation “Intellectual Property Dispute Settlement in Life Sciences” AUTM Annual Meeting Pamela Cox
March 14, 2017 – Presentation “The Diminishing Returns of Venture Philanthropy” AUTM Annual Meeting Robert Gerstein
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
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 13, 2017 “What You Should Know Before Requesting A PTAB Rehearing” (featured quotes) Law360 Julianne M. Hartzell
January 27, 2017 “Sovereign Immunity Prevents AIA Trial Against University-Owned Patent” Marshall Gerstein Alert Pamela Cox
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
January 19, 2017 “Lee v. Tam: SCOTUS Provides ‘Scant’ Insight into View on Case” (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Gregory Chinlund
December 21, 2016 “Supreme Court Might End Texas’ Preferred Patent Venue Status, Attorneys Say” (featured quotes) Thomson Reuters Legal Solutions Blog Thomas Duston
December 16, 2016 “Forum shopping decision could reduce patent lawsuits” (featured quotes) IPPro The Internet Thomas Duston
December 15, 2016 “Justices Could Deal Blow To East Texas Patent Docket” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas Duston
December 15, 2016 “TC Heartland Has Potential to ‘Shake-Up’ Patent Litigation” (featured quotes) Intellectual Property Magazine Thomas Duston
December 15, 2016 “SCOTUS to Hear TC Heartland Case on Patent Venue” (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Thomas Duston
December 9, 2016 “Attorneys Weigh in on High Court ‘Substantial Portion’ Patent Debate (U.S.)” (featured quotes) Westlaw Journal, Intellectual Property Thomas Duston
December 8, 2016 “U.S. High Court Hears Patent Case With Global Trade Implications” (featured quotes) Intellectual Property Watch Thomas Duston
December 7, 2016 “Analysing Life Tech v. Promega Arguments At The US Supreme Court” (featured quotes) Managing Intellectual Property Thomas Duston
December 6, 2016 “Life Tech Litigation Clashes with ‘America First’ Trade Policy” (featured quotes) Intellectual Property Magazine Thomas Duston
December 5, 2016 “Promega IP Case May Portend More Liability for Exporting Cos.” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas Duston
December 2, 2016 “New EPO Requirements Regarding Patent Assignments” Marshall Gerstein Alert Slava Elkin and Jeremy R. Kriegel
November 18, 2016 “Neutralizing ‘Patent Trolls’ for His Clients” Emerging Lawyers Magazine Benjamin Horton
August 17, 2016 “When a Tech Patent is Neither” (featured quotes) Bloomberg Businessweek Thomas Duston
June 13, 2016 “Supreme Court Makes Enhanced Damages Easier to Recover in Patent Cases” Marshall Gerstein Alert Julianne M. Hartzell
April 25, 2016 “Cuozzo at SCOTUS: Day One Arguments and ‘Tectonic Shift’ Calls” (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Thomas Duston
February 17, 2016 – Presentation “Breakfast Briefings 2016” Illinois Manufacturers’ Association Daniel Chavka, Meggan Duffy, and Jeremy Kriegel
December 31, 2015 “Number 1: Device Tax Suspension: Medical Device Daily's top 10: The biggest news makers and trending stories of 2015” (featured quotes) Medical Device Daily David Gass
December 4, 2015 “Federal Circuit passes on en banc hearing for Sequenom” (featured quotes) Medical Device Daily David Gass
November 18, 2015 – Presentation “Legal Issues” AUTM Business Development Course – Medical Devices Jeremy R. Kriegel
November 17, 2015 – Presentation “Overview of Medical Device Market and Technology Transfer Experience” AUTM Business Development Course – Medical Devices Julie Watson
August 13, 2015 “En Banc Federal Circuit Extends Law on Divided Infringement” Marshall Gerstein Alert Michael Weiner
June 18, 2015 “Federal Circuit Changes Standard For Evaluating Means-Plus-Function Claims” Marshall Gerstein Alert Michael Furmanek and Daniel Chavka
June 5, 2015 – Presentation “Non-Patent IP Protection—There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Cat” University of Michigan Early Tech Development Program – Ann Arbor, Michigan Jeremy R. Kriegel
May 27, 2015 “Supreme Court Holds that an Accused Infringer’s Belief Regarding Patent Validity is Not a Defense to Induced Infringement” Marshall Gerstein Alert Sandip H. Patel
March 2015 “Encouraging Growth and Advancement of Women in Intellectual Property Professions” ManagingIP.com Lilian Y. Ficht
March 26, 2015 – Presentation “Paths to Allowance—U.S. After-Final Patent Prosecution Strategies” Munich, Germany Jeremy R. Kriegel
November 13, 2014 “Avoiding Patent Prosecution Pitfalls Under Edward Lifesciences v. Cook Medical, and the AIA” Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Business Development Course - Medical Devices Jeremy R. Kriegel
June 19, 2014 “Lawyers Weigh In On High Court's Software Patent Ruling” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas L. Duston