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A Patent Law Wish List for 2018
A Patent Law Wish List for 2018. By Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal. Dear Santa: I’ve been a good patent lawyer this year, and I always comply with Rule 56. For all of the inventors we represent, I was hoping that this Christmas you would bring: A new 35 USC §101.... Continue reading
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Qualcomm Took Too Long To Challenge Venue In Patent Case
Law360, New York (December 20, 2017, 5:47 PM EST) — Qualcomm Inc. and GlobalFoundries Inc. should have to face infringement allegations over a patent related to semiconductor technology in the Eastern District of Texas, a judge said, finding the companies waited too long to ask for the case be …
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Pokemon Go Creator Gets Quick Win In Mapping Patent Suit
Law360, New York (December 20, 2017, 5:36 PM EST) — A California federal judge on Tuesday awarded Niantic Inc., maker of the app Pokemon Go, an early win in an infringement suit brought by mapping technology creator Location Based Services LLC, finding that four of its patents are invalid …
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Personnel Changes at IP Law Firms, Organizations
Jonathan Webb has joined Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP, Nashville, Tennessee, as a patent agent. • Ilarion Tomarov has left Taylor Wessing, Kyiv, Ukraine, to join Vasil Kisil & Partners, Kyiv, Ukraine, as the head of the firm’s intellectual property practice group. • Founding partner Roger Blakely …
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Two IP law firms with Silicon Valley offices combine
Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, one of the largest law firms in the country, is expanding its presence on the West Coast by absorbing a California-based intellectual property firm. Both firms already have offices in Silicon Valley. Blakely Sokoloff Taylor Zafman LLP is joining Womble Bond, giving the latter …
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Expanded PTAB Panel Finds Sovereign Immunity Waived By Patent Enforcement
In a case of first impression, an expanded PTAB panel (including Chief APJ Ruschke) found that a parallel enforcement action by a patent owner waives its sovereign immunity defense against under the 11th Amendment an AIA petition in Ericsson v. Regents of the University of Minnesota.
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Wrap-Up: Holidays Bring Law Firm Promotions, Hires
Two Republican litigators will take on new roles at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP and Holland & Knight LLC, and Polsinelli poached a team of intellectual property lawyers for its Silicon Valley team. And that was just Monday and Tuesday. Here’s a wrap up of all the law firm news... Continue reading
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Top 20 intellectual property law schools
One of the signature features of TLS used to be its law school profiles, but The ILT’s flagship conference, the annual IP law conference brings together intellectual property lawyers from around the United States for two days to discuss Suffolk University Law School has been ranked among the nation’s top …
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Mealey’s IP/Tech – Pokemon GO Maker Prevails In California Patent Litigation
SAN FRANCISCO – Allegations by the owner of four mapping patents that Niantic Inc., developer of the popular Pokemon GO app, committed … 19 by a California federal magistrate judge, who deemed the underlying technology patent-ineligible under Section 101 of the Patent Act, 35 U.S.C. 101 …