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…
Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. – What You Need to Know Today, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a 6–2 decision that a belief that a patent is…
Partner Brent M. Dougal wrote an article for Law360 discussing the impact and benefits of using the Hague Agreement when filing international applications. Read more below or download the PDF. Hague —…
Fifty-Six Hope Road is a company run by some of Bob Marley’s children, and it owns the property rights to Bob Marley’s name, voice and likeness. Hope Road licensed Zion…
Dell, Inc. v. Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, IPR2015-00549, Paper 10 (P.T.A.B. Mar. 26, 2015) The Board recently added a decision denying inter partes review in Dell, Inc. v. Electronics…
Partner Brent M. Dougal wrote an article for Bloomberg BNA‘s Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal® discussing the benefits and drawbacks of filing a single international design application at the PTO under the…
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,…
TTAB Registration Decisions May Have Issue Preclusion Effect On March 24, 2015, in B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc., the Supreme Court raised the stakes and importance of decisions…
Partner Kimberly J. Miller, Ph.D. wrote an article for the Bloomberg BNA – Life Sciences Law & Industry Report discussing practical steps for building a strong life science patent portfolio….
