Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, one of the nation’s leading intellectual property law firms, is pleased to announce that partner Salima Merani, Ph.D., has been selected as the exclusive…

In July of 2015, Sanofi filed petition for an inter partes review (IPR2015-01624) for 15 claims of U.S. Pat. No. 6,331,415 (“Cabilly II”).  In the antibody field, the Cabilly family…

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP is pleased to announce that BTI Consulting has named San Francisco Managing Partner, Adeel Akhtar, a “Client Service All Star.” Akhtar is one of…

On January 27, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted summary judgment in favor of Nomadix, Inc., ruling that competitor Blueprint RF infringes Nomadix’s patented Internet-access…

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP is pleased to sponsor once again the “Astounding Inventions” Competition at Irvine Valley College, to be held January 30, 2016. More than 450 South…

The Federal Circuit Will Review Appeals from Inter Partes Review Proceedings Under the “Substantial Evidence” Standard In Merck & Cie v. Gnosis S.p.A., Appeal No. 2014-1779, the Federal Circuit affirmed…

Federal Circuit Holds Refusal to Register Disparaging Trademarks is Unconstitutional The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, issued a ruling that Section 2(a) of the…

Partner Kerry Taylor, a member of the firm’s USPTO Trials and Post-Grant Proceedings practice group, was quoted in “PTAB Grants Lower Rate Of IPRs As Patent Owners Fight Back,” an…

Partner Lynda Zadra-Symes was featured in Managing Intellectual Property’s recent article “Don’t Fret Over Threats of Proceedings for IP Infringement” She reviewed U.S. law and recent developments on threats of proceedings for…

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, one of the leading intellectual property law firms in the United States, is pleased to announce that fifteen attorneys have been selected for inclusion…