• Want to patent your invention? Here’s what you need to know.

    A filing fee for a utility patent runs $75 for individuals to $300 for larger organizations. “The fees themselves are not necessarily that expensive for individual inventors,” Johnson said. “Using an attorney is going to run you about 15, maybe $20,000.” The Patent Office was tasked by the America Invents... Continue reading

     
  • attorney resume in Riverside, CA

    CALI Excellence for the Future Award, Patent Law of the US. – Witkin Award for Academic Excellence, Patent Litigation. – Member, Golden Gate Moot Court Board, 2009-2012. – Member, Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Team, 2011-2012 Doctor of Philosophy University of California, Riverside, June 2008 Cell, …

     
  • On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers

    … San Francisco office as of counsel in the firm’s intellectual property practice group. She previously was an associate at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto in Washington, D.C.. Newmeyer & Dillion has promoted Graham Mills to partner in its Walnut Creek office. Mills focuses on complex insurance law.

     
  • 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 …

     
  • 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.

     
  • 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

     
  • 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 …