• The Attorney

    Education and Training. Studied Mechanical Engineering in Essen, Manchester and Nantes. Gained a Master of Business Administration degree from the CDI, Paris-Montreal-Stuttgart. Worked several years in one of the major Japanese Patent and Law Firms. Got his legal training to become a patent …

     
  • Supreme Court Upholds Procedure That’s Said to Combat ‘Patent Trolls’

    A competitor, Greene’s Energy Group, successfully challenged the patent under the procedure, called “inter partes” review, which is Latin for “between the parties.” An administrative tribunal created by the 2011 law, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, ruled that the patent was invalid. According to a brief …

     
  • US Patent Case Update: IPR Proceedings

    In Oil States, the Supreme Court held in a 7-2 decision that IPR proceedings are constitutional and do not violate Article III or the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution and that patent rights are public rights arising between the government and others. The Court further explained that an IPR involves …

     
  • SCOTUS Comes Down Against Inventors in Oil States Case

    As the Free Beacon has previously reported, the PTAB is responsible for reviewing patents whose validity have been challenged. The PTAB runs on a host of procedures alien to federal court proceedings: lower evidentiary standards, the ability of anyone to challenge a patent right, and a broad …

     
  • US Supreme Court Upholds Inter Partes Review

    In what must be one of its most important patent opinions in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning upheld the constitutionality of inter partes reviews (IPRs)–the opposition-like procedures that Congress established in 2011 as part of the America Invents Act–in Oil States Energy Services, …

     
  • CASE AT A GLANCE PATENT LAW Is the Federal Circuit’s Adoption of a Partial-Final-Written …

    ISSUE. Does 35 U.S.C. § 318(a), which provides that the Patent Trial and. Appeal Board in an inter partes review “shall issue a final written decision with respect to the patentability of any patent claim challenged by the petitioner,” require the Board to issue a final written decision as to... Continue reading

     
  • Restricting copyright exceptions detrimental to education, says student group

    Restricting copyright exceptions detrimental to education, says student group  National Post Full coverage

     
  • Nite Ize wins knockoff case that prevents infringing products from entering US

    14, 2016, when Nite Ize and Robert Ziemian, a patent attorney at a national law firm, petitioned the ITC to investigate the case. They alleged violations by 32 Chinese companies based on imports and the sales of imports in the U.S. of mobile device holders and components that infringed upon... Continue reading

     
  • PIPLA Hosts CLE with Commissioner of Patents Andrew Hirschfield

    PIPLA is an organization of Intellectual Property lawyers and law student affiliates primarily in the Greater Philadelphia area including the Philadelphia surrounding counties, Southern New Jersey and Delaware. PIPLA promotes the development and understanding of Intellectual Property Law through …

     
  • US Supreme Court upholds legality of patent review process

    The justices ruled 7-2 that a type of in-house patent review at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office does not violate a defendant’s right under the U.S. Constitution to have a case adjudicated by a federal court and jury. The court ruled against Oil States International, a Houston-based oilfield services …