Partner Amy Chun was featured in an Inside Counsel article titled “How the USPTO’s ‘analysis paralysis’ changed the software patent game.” She delved into the issues surrounding software patents and §101…
Knobbe Martens attorneys Sheila Swaroop, Joseph Reisman and Scott Seeley recently authored “Intellectual Property Issues Under The Trans-Pacific Partnership,” which was featured in the publication Biosimilar Development. Excerpt: On November 5,…
Privacy law has traditionally focused on an individual’s right to privacy vis-à-vis a government’s physical intrusion. Privacy law, however, has morphed in recent years to address concerns of the digital…
San Diego Managing Partner Mike Fuller was recently quoted in Dan Lonkevich’s article, “Federal Circuit judge’s ‘strange’ fix for Mayo, Alice rulings in opinion on denial of en banc Sequenom…
A Nobel Biocare patent relating to the NobelActive® line of dental implants was infringed by the Neodent® DriveCM™ implant, sold by Straumann® subsidiary Instradent® and manufactured by JJGC Indústria e…
Yesterday, in MCM Portfolio LLC v. Hewlett-Packard Company, the Federal Circuit found inter partes reviews constitutional. HP filed for inter partes review (IPR) of several of the claims of MCM’s…
The recently announced Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a multi-national trade agreement between Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States, has been the topic of debate in the…
San Diego Partner Boris Zelkind was quoted in “Top courts, PTAB continue to shape IP litigation sector,” an article published in Inside Counsel on December 1, 2015. Excerpt: The nation’s top…
I AM Similar The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) affirmed the examiner’s decision to deny three applications for “I AM” marks filed by i.am.symbolic, LLC (“Applicant”), finding that Applicant’s…
Federal Circuit Declines to Reverse Invalidity, Noninfringement Holdings In Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., Appeal No. 2014-1407, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment of…
