News and expert analysis on IP developments from the courts to the USPTO.
By Rebecca Cohen | September 6, 2017
Ellisen Turner has been named the next managing partner of Irell & Manella as the Los Angeles-based firm's current leader, Andrei Iancu, was recently nominated to head the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Tom McParland | September 6, 2017
A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday extinguished Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals' patent infringement suit against industrial gases company Praxair Inc., striking five of the Irish drugmaker's patents for its INOMAX respiratory treatment system as invalid and ruling that Praxair had not infringed on five more.
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By Tom McParland | September 6, 2017
A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday extinguished Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals' patent infringement suit against industrial gases company Praxair Inc., striking five of the Irish drugmaker's patents for its INOMAX respiratory treatment system as invalid and ruling that Praxair had not infringed on five more.
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By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | September 6, 2017
The case raises the question of whether or not IPR is constitutional.
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By John Council | September 5, 2017
Nintendo of America plays no games when it gets sued for patent infringement. The company usually refuses to settle such lawsuits and tends to make life as difficult for those that dare to take them to trial. Yet Mike Wilson recently convinced a Dallas federal jury to award his client $10.1 million against the video game maker for infringing on motion detection technology used in the company's once-popular Wii gaming consoles.
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | September 5, 2017
A judge's finding that a new Lynyrd Skynyrd film violates a "blood oath" made by the band after a fatal plane crash to not exploit the group's name hasn't stopped the film's creators from trying to get the film out.
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By Mark Baghdassarian, John Dillon and Matthew Olinzock | September 5, 2017
Mark Baghdassarian, John Dillon and Matthew Olinzock write: The U.S. Supreme Court has continued its recent trend to enter the foray of patent litigation by granting certiorari in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group. This time the court will decide whether inter partes reviews, an adversarial process used by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to analyze the validity of existing patents, violates the Constitution by extinguishing private property rights through a non-Article III forum without a jury when the PTO invalidates patents using this process.
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By Commentary by Scott J. Slavick | September 5, 2017
On June 6, in a precedential decision in In re University of Miami, Serial No. 8661638, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board reversed two U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) refusals to register a design mark depicting the mascot of the University of Miami Hurricanes—Sebastian the Ibis—for various paper products, clothing, and educational and entertainment services, writes Scott J. Slavick.
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By Rebecca Cohen | September 1, 2017
The Am Law 100 firm, which has been busy on the lateral hiring front in 2017, has added two intellectual property partners in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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By Scott Graham | September 1, 2017
Partner John Sganga Jr. argued the case for CardiAQ Valve Technologies Inc., which accused its one-time partner of secretly developing a competing heart valve design.
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