Author: Karina Laufenberg

THE U.S. AND JAPAN JOIN THE HAGUE SYSTEM By Richard S. Stockton On May 13, 2015, the United States and Japan will become contracting parties to the Hague System for

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., a national intellectual property law firm dedicated to the procurement, enforcement and litigation of intellectual property rights throughout the world, welcomes eight summer associates to the

Banner & Witcoff welcomes Maurine L. Knutsson to the firm’s Chicago office as an associate. Ms. Knutsson focuses her practice on protecting, enforcing and managing clients’ trademarks, copyrights, designs and

Marc S. Cooperman, Erik S. Maurer, Timothy C. Meece, Helen Hill Minsker, Jon O. Nelson, Thomas K. Pratt, Christopher J. Renk and Charles W. Shifley were named by Legal Leaders

John M. Fleming explains the difference between offensive and defensive patents, as well as how to assess and potentially acquire those patents, inInside Counsel‘s article, “Shields, swords and sandboxes: Offensive

TTAB APPEAL AT USDC – WIN OR LOSE – YOU PAY THE USPTO COSTS By Ernest V. Linek On April 23, 2015, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (2-1)

On April 27, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled once again in Biosig Instruments Inc. v. Nautilus Inc. that a Biosig heart rate monitor patent asserted

Marc S. Cooperman, Dale H. Hoscheit, V. Bryan Medlock Jr., Jon O. Nelson, Joseph M. Potenza and Charles W. Shifley were named to Euromoney’s 2015 Expert Guide to the “World’s Leading

Charles W. Shifley discusses the importance of the Federal Circuit’s decisions in In re: Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC and Pacing Technologies LLC v. Garmin International Inc. in the Law360 article,

Robert F. Altherr Jr., Ross A. Dannenberg, Frederic M. Meeker, Chunhsi Andy Mu, Joseph M. Potenza, Benjamin C. Spehlmann and Bradley C. Wright were named to the 2015 Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers