FEDERAL CIRCUIT PANEL NOT SWEET ON TC HEARTLAND’S PETITION TO CHANGE RULES FOR PATENT VENUE By R. Gregory Israelsen “Boy, doesn’t this feel like something a legislature should do?” So
PATENT AGENT PRIVILEGE CONFIRMED BY FEDERAL CIRCUIT By Ernest V. Linek Yesterday, in a 2-1 mandamus decision in the case In re Queens University, the Federal Circuit ordered the district court
Banner & Witcoff client Airlite Plastics Co. has prevailed in defense of a patent infringement claim asserted by Phil-Insul Corp (d/b/a IntegraSpec) in the U.S. District Court for the District
Banner & Witcoff represents the Licensing Executives Society in its effort to persuade the Supreme Court in Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Michelle K. Lee that post-grant proceedings, including inter
Brian Emfinger discusses how stakeholders can approach Congress amid continuing uncertainty about subject matter eligibility and offer their suggestions for improving Section 101 in World Intellectual Property Review. Please click here
For the 13th consecutive year, Banner & Witcoff obtained more U.S. design patents than any other law firm in the country. According to the 2015 U.S. Design Patent Toteboard and
Timothy C. Meece, V. Bryan Medlock Jr., Jason S. Shull and Audra Eidem Heinze were featured as “Legal Lions” for their successful representation of Lexmark International, Inc., in, “Law360’s Weekly Verdict: Legal Lions & Lambs.”
Banner & Witcoff client Mentor Graphics has prevailed in a Federal Circuit appeal by rival Synopsys, Inc. seeking to overturn the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s final decision in an
Banner & Witcoff client Seagate Technology won a clean sweep of four inter partes reviews invalidating two patents of Enova Technology Corp. The patents relate to computer storage device encryption
FEDERAL CIRCUIT’S EN BANC DECISION IN LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC. V. IMPRESSION PRODUCTS, INC. MAKES SIGNIFICANT DETERMINATIONS RELATING TO THE DOCTRINE OF PATENT EXHAUSTION By Jason S. Shull On February 12,
