It was a banner year for intellectual property firm Banner & Witcoff, where lawyers racked up significant wins at the International Trade Commission and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as continuing to dominate design patent prosecution at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Printer maker Lexmark International Inc. turned to the firm for help with an ITC dispute over knockoff toner cartridges. Even by ITC standards, the case was huge, involving 15 patents and 23 respondents. A team of Banner lawyers led by Timothy Meece in September won a rare prize a general exclusion order banning the importation of all unlicensed toner cartridges (as opposed to a limited exclusion order directed at specific respondents).
