• IP Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Law360, New York (January 31, 2018, 3:58 PM EST) — Mayer Brown LLP secured a victory in the Supreme Court decision Impression Products v. Lexmark International, a major win for Impression and companies in the secondary market for patented products, landing the firm a spot among Law360’s …

     
  • Court Extends Non-Compete Law to IP Licensing Agreements

    Non-compete law has generally been applied to two kinds of contracts: employment agreements and agreements to sell a business. Crye appears to break new ground in applying this law to restrictions in an intellectual property license. Counsel who draft licensing agreements need to consider whether …

     
  • culminate in local patent milestone

    Steve worked for the patent office in Salt Lake City for more than half a decade before he said he woke up one day and realized he needed to change his path. Now a registered patent agent working for his own company, Malone Intellectual Property Law, he said he wants... Continue reading

     
  • Retro News: 5 Years Ago, CT Shops Still Hopeful That Judgment Against Insurer Would Hold

    Eileen Sottile of the Quality Parts Coalition predicted that without changes to U.S. patent law, the increasing number of OEM patents on crash parts could … Ten years later, the non-OEM parts industry continues to fight for federal legislation that would slash design patent protection automakers’ hold on …

     
  • In the News

    In the Law FirmsFitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP has promoted Joseph H. Herron to equity partner.Herron counsels clients in complex patent prosecution, patent litigation, post-issuance matters, portfolio management and opinion work among other intellectual property matters.• Husch Blackwell LLP …

     
  • Data Privacy Attorney

    Knobbe Martens is looking to add an attorney to our Data Privacy and Security team. Our team is dedicated to helping clients achieve and maintain compliance with federal, state, and international data protection and security laws. Qualifications:

     
  • Kenan L. Farrell

    KLF Legal is an Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Firm based in downtown Indianapolis, serving clients nationally.

     
  • Papers from the February 2017 Patent Damages Conference at the University of Texas

    Mark Janis, Statutory Damages as a Remedy for Design Patent Infringement (Draft). Karen Sandrik, Punishing the Malicious Pirate in Patent Law (Draft). Dan Burk, Punitive Patent Liability: A Comparative Examination (Draft). Ronan Avraham, Should Courts Award Pain and Suffering Damages in Patent …

     
  • Oracle could prevail in copyright case against Google based on commercial market harm

    Hansen, director of the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute and world renowned as an expert on international IP law, said that Judge Alsup “misrepresented the economic effect” that Google’s actions had on the market for Oracle, so the jury wasn’t properly informed when it agreed to the internet …

     
  • Ensuring Section 121 Safe Harbor Applies To Patent

    The Patent Act includes a provision shielding a child patent from double patenting over a parent patent. Patent prosecutors seeking the benefits of Section 121 should understand the importance of filing a divisional application during the pendency of…