By Sean Jungels The Federal Circuit’s much-anticipated opinion in Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. v. Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc., vacated the jury verdict that Seirus did not infringe Columbia’s design patent for a “Heat Reflective Material,” and remanded to the district court. Notably, the Federal Circuit’s decision here marks another signal that a design patent’s…
Banner Witcoff’s Robert Katz will moderate and speak during a discussion on how to best protect digital goods through strategic use of IP rights on Friday, October 6, at the FICPI Open Forum Meeting in London. Robert and his co-speakers will focus on the best practices of using design and trademark strategies to protect digital…
Shareholder Darrell Mottley will be part of a panel during the fourth session of The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. This event will be hosted both virtually and at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Wednesday, September 27. The presenters will explore various intellectual property policy issues regarding…
Darrell Mottley has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee of the ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence (AI Task Force). Created by the ABA, the AI Task Force will help identify the impact of AI on the legal profession and the practice of law. During his one-year term, Darrell and…
Rich Stockton will participate as a panelist at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s 2023 Supreme Court IP Review on Friday, September 29. Alongside his co-presenters, Rich will review the Supreme Court decision in Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. In Abitron, the Supreme Court ruled that the Lanham Act did not rebut a judicial presumption…
Banner Witcoff’s Scott M. Kelly is named a “DC Rising Star” in the National Law Journal’s 2023 Legal Awards, recognizing him as one of the region’s 40 most promising lawyers age 40 and under. The National Law Journal’s legal awards “highlights lawyers who have wielded influence in their practice areas in the D.C. area and…
Shareholder Scott Kelly will participate in a panel on artificial intelligence and inventorship at the 2023 IP-Con, hosted by The McCarthy Institute at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in Redwood Shores, California. Current cases hold that only natural persons can be named as inventors. But is material created by an AI ever “inventive”? …
By Zachary Getzelman and Camille Sauer In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff examines recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: the duty of candor, timeliness of IPR petitions, discretionary denials and more! A day late and a duty violated. Google LLC v. Parus Holdings, Inc., IPR2022-00805, Paper 26 (Sep. 5, 2023) (Boucher, joined…
Banner Witcoff's Matthew May is the featured speaker for the Service Academy Business Mastermind's (SABM) "Entrepreneurial All Call' webinar on Friday, September 15 at noon ET.
Banner Witcoff's Christian Wolfgram will present on digital evidence collection in intellectual property disputes during a live Zoom webinar on Thursday, September 14, at noon CDT.
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