• Personnel Changes at IP Law Firms, Organizations

    Jonathan Webb has joined Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP, Nashville, Tennessee, as a patent agent. • Ilarion Tomarov has left Taylor Wessing, Kyiv, Ukraine, to join Vasil Kisil & Partners, Kyiv, Ukraine, as the head of the firm’s intellectual property practice group. • Founding partner Roger Blakely …

     
  • Two IP law firms with Silicon Valley offices combine

    Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, one of the largest law firms in the country, is expanding its presence on the West Coast by absorbing a California-based intellectual property firm. Both firms already have offices in Silicon Valley. Blakely Sokoloff Taylor Zafman LLP is joining Womble Bond, giving the latter …

     
  • Expanded PTAB Panel Finds Sovereign Immunity Waived By Patent Enforcement

    In a case of first impression, an expanded PTAB panel (including Chief APJ Ruschke) found that a parallel enforcement action by a patent owner waives its sovereign immunity defense against under the 11th Amendment an AIA petition in Ericsson v. Regents of the University of Minnesota.

     
  • Wrap-Up: Holidays Bring Law Firm Promotions, Hires

    Two Republican litigators will take on new roles at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP and Holland & Knight LLC, and Polsinelli poached a team of intellectual property lawyers for its Silicon Valley team. And that was just Monday and Tuesday. Here’s a wrap up of all the law firm news... Continue reading

     
  • Top 20 intellectual property law schools

    One of the signature features of TLS used to be its law school profiles, but The ILT’s flagship conference, the annual IP law conference brings together intellectual property lawyers from around the United States for two days to discuss Suffolk University Law School has been ranked among the nation’s top …

     
  • Mealey’s IP/Tech – Pokemon GO Maker Prevails In California Patent Litigation

    SAN FRANCISCO – Allegations by the owner of four mapping patents that Niantic Inc., developer of the popular Pokemon GO app, committed … 19 by a California federal magistrate judge, who deemed the underlying technology patent-ineligible under Section 101 of the Patent Act, 35 U.S.C. 101 …

     
  • Patent Legal Assistant Jobs in Reston, VA – Harness, Dickey & Pierce

    Prominent intellectual property law firm in Reston, VA has an opening for a detail-oriented patent legal assistant. Duties for this position may include preparing and submitting patent applications, maintaining daily docket, and following-up with other attorneys and support staff regarding active matters.

     
  • Nonlawyers at LegalZoom performed legal work on trademark applications, UPL lawsuit alleges

    The action is brought by LegalForce RAPC, a patent and trademark filing firm, and its owner Raj Abhyanker, a patent attorney in California. In the complaint, the plaintiffs claim that they applied for two trademarks through LegalZoom and that the service they received constituted the practice of law.

     
  • Legal Analytics Lab explores the intersection of business, big data and law

    What do business scholars, lawyers and data scientists have in common? Well at Georgia State University, they are putting their heads together to analyze millions of litigation filings and outcomes, corporate disclosures, patent applications and legal documents. The goal is to identify patterns and …

     
  • Medical Patent Law Weekly

    Medical Patent Law Weekly (12/20/2017). Medical Patent Law Weekly covers new and ongoing law suits pertaining to new drugs, genetic discoveries, and medical materials and devices for pharma and biotech executives and legal counsels, including patent and licensing disputes, contract negotiations …