Robert S. Katz participates in encore Strafford webinar, “Design Patent Claim Construction: Written Description, Ornamentality, Functionality and More.” He and his co-presenters will examine key considerations when defining and drafting design patent claims and discuss how courts are treating claim construction issues for design patents. Their original presentation was on Feb. 8, 2018. This is an…
Capturing Inventions from FDA Label Changes By Sarah A. Kagan The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on January 9, 2018, heard oral arguments in Praxair Distribution, Inc. v. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products, Fed. Cir. No. 2016-2616, -2656, involving an appeal and cross-appeal of an inter partes review (IPR) from the U.S. Patent…
Managing Intellectual Property magazine recently published an article that highlights Banner & Witcoff’s position as a top firm at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board in 2017. Click here to read the article.
A Theory of Invalidity is Not Enough to Invalidate a Patent By Sarah A. Kagan The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed on different grounds a lower court’s dismissal for lack of jurisdiction under the Declaratory Judgment Act of AbbVie’s lawsuit seeking a judgement of invalidity of MedImmune’s U.S. Patent No.…
Ross A. Dannenberg presents, “Top 10 Cases That Have Affected the U.S. Video Game/AI Industry,” on April 6 at More than Just a Game: IV Edition in London. Scott M. Kelly presents, “The Key to Key Presses: eSports Game Input Streaming and Copyright Protection,” also on April 6. Banner & Witcoff is a sponsor of the…
Ross A. Dannenberg judges the Wargaming Legal Challenge, an international moot court competition for students and attorneys, at the Games Industry Law Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. The fourth annual summit offers two days of presentations and panel discussions by global legal and business development professionals from the international games industry. Click here for more information.
On February 6, 18 attorneys and staff in our Washington, D.C. office put together nearly 250 sandwiches for Martha’s Table to use on McKenna’s Wagon, its mobile food truck that provides its downtown neighbors with a healthy meal 365 days a year. Click here for more information.
Aseet Patel presents Licensing Executives Society webinar “Patent Eligibility of Software Inventions After Alice and Its Impact on Patent Valuations.” Mr. Patel will analyze several decisions from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, federal district courts and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board four years after Alice to provide takeaways and best practices for…
The Safe Harbor for Divisional Applications Shrinks By Sarah A. Kagan The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed on January 23, 2018, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision that the re-examined claims of Janssen Biotech and New York University’s U.S. Patent 6,284,471 (’471) are unpatentable…
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., a national intellectual property law firm that procures, enforces and litigates intellectual property rights throughout the world, has selected Priyank Patel as the 2018 recipient of the Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship for law students. The scholarship program will provide Mr. Patel with $5,000 for his fall semester of law school.…
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