Banner Witcoff attorneys Scott M. Kelly and Kirk A. Sigmon will discuss challenges in patenting video games and virtual reality on Oct. 25 at the 5th Annual Chicago Video Game Law Summit (CVGLS). Banner Witcoff is sponsoring the event, which will take place at the Chicago Bar Association. As part of their session, Scott and…
Banner Witcoff is sponsoring the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago’s (IPLAC) annual dinner on Oct. 17 at The Standard Club in Chicago. Now in its 125th year, the event honors the federal judiciary. At this year’s dinner, IPLAC will present U.S. Magistrate Judge Sidney Schenkier of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District…
Forbes recognized Banner Witcoff for its intellectual property practice on the publication’s 2019 “America’s Top Trusted Corporate Law Firms” list. Banner Witcoff is one of 18 firms nationwide recommended in the intellectual property practice area. The inaugural list identifies the most recommended firms in 17 practice areas based on survey responses from 2,500 attorneys. Click…
For an Oct. 8 article, Law360 sought out Banner Witcoff attorney Marc S. Cooperman for his insight as a litigator on how to present a strong case on damages to jurors. “The damages side of things for a lot of patent lawyers is an afterthought, even though very often it’s one of the principal reasons…
Banner Witcoff attorney Helen Hill Minsker wrote an article for Practising Law Institute’s quarterly journal examining how recent changes in the law and a pair of U.S. Supreme Court cases have affected the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s registration policies related to certain categories of trademarks. Helen’s article, “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll Get…
Banner Witcoff attorney Robert S. Katz will moderate a panel at the 18th Open Forum of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI), set to take place from Oct. 9-12 in Vienna, Austria. Rob will moderate an Oct. 10 session exploring the protection of product configurations in the current climate. Rob and the panelists…
Banner Witcoff has opened the application process for the 2020 program of the Donald W. Banner Diversity Fellowship. First- and second-year law students can submit applications now through Jan. 6, 2020. Created to strengthen diversity and inclusion in the field of intellectual property law, the fellowship provides 1L and 2L students with the opportunity to…
On Sept. 26, a split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit revived Campbell Soup Co.’s and Trinity Manufacturing’s challenge of design patents covering a display rack, ruling that the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) wrongly excluded a prior art reference as serving as a “primary reference.”
Joseph J. Berghammer, V. Bryan Medlock Jr., Jon O. Nelson, Joseph M. Potenza, Christopher J. Renk, Charles W. Shifley and Bradley C. Wright are listed as leaders in intellectual property law in the 2017 edition of Best Lawyers in America. Inclusion in Best Lawyers® is based entirely on peer review. The methodology is designed to capture, as…
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