• In-House IP Lawyers Can Code Their Way Into New Gig

    In-House IP Lawyers Can Code Their Way Into New Gig. Recruiters say they are seeing a growing demand for in-house IP lawyers who can code. … In-house intellectual property lawyers have long been expected to know how to write and communicate well, in addition to having a deep knowledge of... Continue reading

     
  • An Uphill Battle Protecting Fashion Designs In Nigeria and Abroad

    Growing frustration in the fashion community regarding weak or non-existent intellectual property laws has finally caught the attention of some nations. Nigeria is one nation that currently is trying to alleviate this frustration by reforming its intellectual property laws.

     
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown’s Democratic colleagues must envy his positioning for the fall

    Reuters reports that a group of six patent law professors has “urged a federal appeals court to recognize the validity of diagnostic testing patents owned by the Cleveland Clinic,” saying lower courts “are improperly canceling biotech patents based on a misunderstanding of what constitutes eligible …

     
  • Thomas Quigley joins the MTA as general counsel

    Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has added Grace Pan as a partner on the firm’s Patent Litigation Team. Prior to joining, she was a partner at Holland & Knight. Baker Botts has promoted associates Jon Finelli and Justine Gozzi to the position of special counsel. JillAllison Opell has joined Foley &... Continue reading

     
  • NantKwest En Banc Oral Argument Today

    The examiner and the PTAB rejected the inventor’s patent application on nonobviousness grounds, and rather than immediately appealing to the Federal Circuit (which is one option under these circumstances) the applicant initiated a lawsuit against the director in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern …

     
  • Global IP chorus tunes up ‘patent harmonization’

    The talks focused mostly on “global patent harmonization,” according to Raymond Farrell, senior partner and cofounder of Melville-based law firm Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt LLP, who cited an “attempt to reach consensus on a broad package of substantive patent legal matters” extending across …

     
  • Goldberg Segalla Boosts NY IP Group With Ex-Polsinelli Atty

    Law360 (March 8, 2018, 2:01 PM EST) — Goldberg Segalla has boosted the intellectual property group in its New York office with the addition of an … “A flexible, conflict-free platform where I have the ability to work with Chandran Iyer and Michael Siem to build a top-notch, nimble and... Continue reading

     
  • Trademark my logo and company name

    Trademark my logo and company name. Legal Intellectual Property Law. Hourly. Hours to be determined. Less than 1 month. $$$. Expert Level. I am willing to pay higher rates for the most experienced freelancers. Posted 1 hour ago …

     
  • ‘UK Supreme Court hearing reveals Law Lords’ initial thoughts

    The patent battle between Warner-Lambert (Pfizer) and Actavis and Mylan reached the Supreme Court in February 2018. (See our earlier blog posted shortly before the hearing began). Members of Fieldfisher’s patent litigation team were in court to hear the judges’ initial reaction to the arguments which …

     
  • Ten ways to protect intellectual property and trade secrets

    Clean up data piles through defensible destruction and rightsizing your information footprint. Defensible destruction of information requires assessing legal requirements and business needs of that information. Analytics and classification technology can be helpful in making decisions about what to …