In the March edition of Of Counsel, Partner Joe Re discusses his upbringing, legal career, hiring experience, the Masimo litigation, and other topics. Read the full interview below. Litigating for…

Accused Infringer’s Good-Faith Belief In Invalidity No Defense To Induced Infringement In Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc., No. 13-896, the Supreme Court held a good-faith belief a patent…

Is PRETZEL CRISPS a Generic Term? Federal Circuit Resets Standard for Genericness In an earlier precedential decision, the TTAB held there was a dichotomy in the standard for determining whether…

Background of the Case The dispute in Stephen Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc., Case No. 13-720, ___ U.S. ___ (2015), arose out of a 2001 settlement of a prior lawsuit between…

CUBA Six months have passed since President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro made the historic decision to reestablish diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba. Although Congress has not…

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP and a selection of its partners have been recognized in this year’s edition of the IAM 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2015….

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, one of the nation’s leading intellectual property law firms, is pleased to announce that Colin Heideman, a litigation Partner at the firm’s Seattle office,…

Student entrepreneurs from University of Houston captured the $10,000 Grand Prize at the Grand Final Round of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Foundation 2015 International Graduate Student Business Plan Competition…

Euromoney Legal Media Group (LMG) announced this week that Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP partner Susan Natland is the exclusive winner of the “Best in Trademark” award in the…

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…