• PTAB Nixes Claims In Corning-Licensed Fiber Optic Patents

    Law360 (February 2, 2018, 4:50 PM EST) — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board found Friday that claims in two fiber optic patents asserted by a Corning unit in infringement litigation are unpatentable, handing a win to Panduit Corp. in an America Invents Act inter partes review. In a final... Continue reading

     
  • BASF Files Lawsuit Over Patent Infringement

    BASF Files Lawsuit Over Patent Infringement  Agriculture.com Full coverage

     
  • Amazon Patents a Way to Track Warehouse Workers’ Every Step

    There’s no federal privacy law to keep businesses from tracking their employees with GPS. In 2015, a woman sued her former employer Intermex Wire Transfers, claiming that she had been fired for disabling a GPS app on her company-issued phone after she found out that her location was being …

     
  • IP Group Of The Year: Archer Law

    Law360 (February 2, 2018, 4:09 PM EST) — Archer Law achieved a massive victory this year when the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a Federal Circuit decision holding that the trademark of an Asian dance-rock band was protected by the First Amendment’s free speech clause, landing it …

     
  • Practicing Law as Transgender Trailblazer

    Fish & Richardson’s Danielle “DJ” Healey has practiced law for more than 32 years. The antitrust and IP litigator opened Fish’s Houston office in 2008. As reported here last summer, with the support of her family and law firm, she made the decision to live openly full time as her... Continue reading

     
  • UCLA Law Launches Documentary Film Legal Clinic

    Summary: UCLA Law is now offering a free documentary film clinic to provide legal assistance to filmmakers. The University … UCLA also offers a Patent Law Clinic, Trademark Law Clinic, and a Music Industry Clinic, which enable their students to gain experience while in school working on real cases.

     
  • IP Hires: Nixon Peabody, McDermott, DLA Piper

    Law360 (February 2, 2018, 3:10 PM EST) — In this week’s intellectual property partners on the move, Nixon Peabody lands two patent litigation partners in Los Angeles, McDermott Will & Emery snags a partner to focus on pharma, biotech and medical devices, and DLA Piper adds two partners to its …

     
  • Patent Agent

    Job ID: 25321. Patent Agent – Biology or Chemistry – New York. Our client, a major law firm, seeks an experienced Patent Agent to join their Intellectual Property practice in their New York office. This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly collaborative practice with a congenial work environment.

     
  • Federal Circuit clarifies that wilful infringement must be decided by jury

    In this suit, Exmark sued Briggs in the District of Nebraska for infringement of – among other things – Claim 1 of Exmark’s US Patent 5,987,863. This claim had been re-examined and found valid three times by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Exmark moved for summary judgment that Claim... Continue reading

     
  • In the News

    In the Law FirmsBanner & Witcoff Ltd. has elected Azuka C. Dike, Aaron P. Bowling, Maurine L. Knutsson and Justin M. Philpott as shareholders.Dike focuses his practice on a range of intellectual property matters with an emphasis on patent infringement litigation, patent prosecution, patent monetization …