• Vegas Golden Knights issued a sarcastic response to Army’s trademark claim

    This sentence, though, was press-release chippiness at its absolute best: “We are not aware of a single complaint from anyone attending our games that they were expecting to see the parachute team and not a professional hockey game.” Nicely done. I’m not an expert on trademark and IP law, but... Continue reading

     
  • Apple Says Secret Lobbying Campaign Swayed PTO Trial

    Following trial, the three new judges ruled the other way, upholding the validity of a patent that Voip-Pal is asserting against Apple in Nevada federal … a constitutional challenge to the IPR process, which was established as part of the 2011 America Invents Act as quicker and less expensive alternative …

     
  • Fed. Circ. Upholds Nix Of Patent Suit Against HTC, Motorola

    In a 37-page opinion that includes a concurrence and a dissent, the appeals court affirmed a New York federal court’s June 2016 decision, which held that Advanced Video Technologies LLC had no standing to bring its suits because the ownership interests in its patent were never transferred to the …

     
  • Kirkland Loses Top Appellate Litigator, But Adds Jenner IP Transactions Chair

    Petravicius, who did not use the services of a legal recruiter for the move, said his decision to leave Jenner & Block came about through discussions and conversations with his former colleagues at Kirkland. Since he left, Kirkland’s technology and IP transactions practice has grown to more than 40 …

     
  • Google Says IP Suit Over Messaging Repeats Axed Claims

    Law360, Washington (January 11, 2018, 6:12 PM EST) — Google Inc. urged a Federal Circuit panel on Thursday to quash a patent infringement suit over its cloud messaging service, saying a trial judge correctly ruled the patents in question describe the same technology that was the subject of an $85 …

     
  • 29th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference

    29th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference. American Bar Association April 2-4, 2014. Ha Kung Wong presented on the panel entitled “Staying Current in the World of Patent Litigation: A Year (and more) in Review” in Arlington, VA on April 4, along with several distinguished IP specialists, …

     
  • DQ King & Spalding In Vaccine Patent Row, Ex-Client Says

    Law360, New York (January 11, 2018, 5:56 PM EST) — A German pharmaceutical company asked a New York state court Wednesday to bar King & Spalding LLP from representing two animal vaccine manufacturers in international arbitration stemming from a license agreement relating to vaccine …

     
  • Patent Law and Issues of Professionalism For the Engineer

    On February 26, 2004, partners Warren Olsen and Brian Klock spoke to students and faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. Their presentation, “Patent Law and Issues of Professionalism For the Engineer,” covered the topics of “ABC’s of Patent Law” and “Ethical …

     
  • Novartis’ Zortress Patent Survives PTAB Challenge

    Law360, New York (January 11, 2018, 4:38 PM EST) — While certain claims in a Novartis AG patent for its immunosuppressant Zortress probably could have been found by other chemists based on existing knowledge, the chances were so small that the discovery deserves a patent, the Patent Trial and …

     
  • Personnel Changes at IP Law Firms, Organization

    IP attorney Nikolas Gregor has been promoted to partner at CMS Legal, Hamburg, Germany. • IP attorney Dan Harkins has been named director of the intellectual property and IP litigation group at Dykema Gossett PLC, San Antonio, Texas. • IP law firm Greenfield & Sacks PC has promoted Brandon S.