Is a New Crystal Polymorph Useful and Non-Obvious Over a Prior Art Form of the Same Chemical Formula? By Sarah A. Kagan Four Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) litigants presented their competing theories of utility, obviousness, and inducement to infringe patents related to the opioid tapentadol hydrochloride in oral arguments to a panel of…
Aseet Patel discusses the potential for more clarity for United States patents involving software innovations, and how that could lead to an improvement in depressed patent valuations, increase in patent licensing activity and raised shareholder value, in Today’s General Counsel. Click here to read the article.
Sarah A. Kagan discusses the potential impact of the Federal Circuit’s decision invalidating patents on Acorda Therapeutics Inc.’s multiple sclerosis drug Ampyra in Law360. Ms. Kagan authored an amicus brief that BIO filed in the case. Click here to read the article, “Fed. Circ. Ruling Takes ‘Blocking Patents’ To New Places.”
Jeffrey Chang volunteered to teach public school students in Washington, D.C., about the Constitution today as part of the American Constitution Society Constitution in the Classroom program. The DC Bar partnered with the DC Lawyer Chapter of the ACS to place volunteer attorneys and law students in public school classrooms. Mr. Chang and other volunteers were able…
Christopher J. Renk moderates “State of the Northern District of Illinois Courts and Experiences with the Local Patent Rules and the Patent Pilot Program,” with Chief Judge Ruben Castillo, Judge Edmond Chang and Judge Matthew Kennelly, at the 2018 Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago IP Symposium in Chicago. Click here for more information.
Alisa S. Abbott presents at the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago Young Members’ Committee’s An Evening of Design at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ms. Abbott will join a panel of industrial designers and other design law attorneys to discuss current issues in design protection. Click here for more information.
Banner & Witcoff sponsors the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago’s 9th Annual Gala at Germania Place in Chicago. Asha Rangappa, senior lecturer at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a legal and national security analyst for CNN, will be the keynote speaker. Click here for more information.
Timothy C. Meece and Audra C. Eidem Heinze analyze the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., on the business and legal community for Bloomberg Law. Click here to read the article, “Patent Exhaustion in View of Impression Prods., Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc.”
Kirk A. Sigmon explains how startups can avoid or mitigate intellectual property traps if they avoid five common mistakes in World Intellectual Property Review. Click here to read the article, “5 common IP traps startups should avoid.” Subscription is required.
Banner Witcoff sponsored the September North Shore Corporate Intellectual Property Roundtable program in Northbrook, Ill.
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