• People and Practices: March 15

    … practice on patent portfolio development and management, patent prosecution, and post-grant proceedings for a wide variety of clients, ranging from individual inventors and startups to large technology companies. Jennifer Huang assists clients in various aspects of maintaining and enforcing IP rights …

     
  • Personnel Changes at IP Law Firms, Organizations

    IP attorney William Stroever has left Greenberg Traurig LLP, Florham Park, N.J., to join Cole Schotz PC, Hackensack, N.J., as a member in the firm’s intellectual property department . * IP trial attorney Lori Gordon has left Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC, Washington, D.C., to join King & Spalding …

     
  • World War Trump

    The new tariffs will follow the conclusion of an investigation by the U.S. Trade Representative into alleged Chinese violation of U.S. intellectual property law and WTO rules, with reports suggesting that the administration will announce at least $30 billion in new annual duties against a variety of Chinese …

     
  • Motorola Accuses Hytera of Filing Anticompetitive Practices Lawsuit as Retaliation

    “Assuming such a memo exists, Motorola has every right to inform its dealers of ongoing litigation over Hytera’s infringement of its patents and trade secrets,” the motion said. “There is nothing anticompetitive about a patent holder enforcing its intellectual property rights.” Additionally, the alleged threats …

     
  • “A situation of uncertainty” – fees debacle at Venezuelan IP office leaves brand owners “in limbo”

    This move will have a significant impact on the taxes and official fees paid by foreign applicants for IP rights in Venezuela, and in response the Venezuelan PTO informed users that payment of official fees by foreign brand owners was suspended until new official fees are published. It is understood... Continue reading

     
  • Justice Breyer Speaks

    A Virginia Law Weekly reporter asked how justices and their clerks go about breaking down and understanding complex scientific cases to render decisions. Justice Breyer joked that some of the most strident backlash he has received from his decisions is from patent lawyers, especially on their vitriolic …

     
  • Greenberg Traurig Participates in USC Intellectual Property Institute 2018 Event

    Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Marc H. Trachtenberg, a shareholder in the firm’s Chicago office, will participate as a moderator at the USC Gould School of Law Intellectual Property Institute 2018 event, March 20, 2018. Susan L. Heller, co-managing shareholder of the firm’s Orange County …

     
  • Exportation of Generic Medicine Subject To Compulsory Licenses

    Turkey has amended regulations on compulsory licenses with regard to generic medicine in an effort to promote economic and social welfare. COMPULSORY licensing is the sovereign power to exploit a patent without the permission of the rights holder.[1] Governments may issue compulsory licenses to …

     
  • Turkey Incentivizes the Start-up Ecosystem

    Of greatest interest to entrepreneurs in the field of intellectual property law is the recent passage of the Industrial Property Code,[10] which abolished previous decree codes regarding certain entrepreneurial-related rights. The purpose of abolishing the previous decree codes and rolling the protection of …

     
  • In-house counsel need to embrace AI, Law Society of Ontario summit told

    Austin, national service line leader, strategic analytics and modelling at Deloitte LLP, and Medeiros, a partner, patent agent and trademark agent at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, opened the day speaking about “Artificial Intelligence: From legal considerations to legal use cases.” They urged those present …