The Supreme Court Rules TTAB Findings May Have Preclusive Effect in Later Federal Court Proceedings B&B and Hargis have long contested each other’s rights in the mark “SEALTIGHT” for fasteners….

No Recovery Of Lost Profits From Related Companies’ Activities In WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC. v. NUVASIVE, INC., Appeal Nos. 2013-1576, -1577, the Federal Circuit held that a company was not entitled…

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, one of the nation’s leading intellectual property law firms, is pleased to announce that partners William Bunker, Eric Furman, Ph.D., Jon Gurka, Joseph Jennings,…

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, is pleased to announce that The Recorder has recognized partner Joseph Re as a “Game Changer” for his work obtaining a critical appellate reversal on behalf of…

On April 16, 2015, Euromoney Legal Media Group (LMG) announced the shortlist for its fourth annual “Americas Women in Business Law Awards”. Knobbe Martens is pleased to report that partners…

Article by Bruce S. Itchkawitz, Ph.D.; originally published at PhotonicsPatents.com on April 14, 2015. Since last year’s decision in Alice v.CLS Bank by the Supreme Court, the number of patents for computer-based inventions that have…

Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued its first set of final written decisions in three inter partes reviews relating to molecules in the large molecule biopharma space (IPR2013-00534,…

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, one of the nation’s leading intellectual property law firms, is pleased to announce that William Zimmerman, Managing Partner of the firm’s Washington D.C. office,…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published the Final Rules for implementation of the Hague Agreement for the Registration of Industrial Designs (i.e., design patents). They can be…

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP has once again ranked among the top 10 firms in the nation in the number of utility patents obtained for clients in the 2015…