On March 27, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio held that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., which addressed the “first sale” doctrine under copyright law, does not extend to the “first sale” doctrine under patent law as applied to patented articles first sold outside…
BTI Consulting Group, a leading provider of strategic research to the legal services industry, reports that corporate counsel rank Banner & Witcoff in the top 25 percent of law firms with the best client relationships. In its BTI Client Relationship Scorecard 2014, BTI asked more than 500 corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 and large…
IP Alert: The USPTO Announces New Guidelines for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility Under 35 U.S.C. §101 in View of Myriad, Prometheus and Chakrabarty
The American Heart Association recently launched its 2014 Heart Innovation Forum, an initiative that presents topics of interest to the life science industry while raising funds for its research efforts and community education programs. Shawn P. Gorman will serve as a member of the Heart Innovation Forum Executive Leadership Team. In this role, he…
Banner & Witcoff remembers our friend and former name partner D. Dennis Allegretti, who died on Feb. 26, 2014. Dennis, who was a partner with the firm for more than four decades, practiced in the Chicago office and helped establish the Boston office. Dennis was a 1952 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and…
Mr. Bowling discusses the Supreme Court’s decision in Medtronic v. Mirowski Family Ventures in the March 2014 issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. In its ruling, the court said patent owners must prove that their patents cover the licensee’s products. Please click here to read the article, “Patentee bears burden of proof when license agreements are questioned.”…
Patent Case Attorneys’ Fee Awards: The Supreme Court Characterizes Cases Argued Wednesday As “A Search for Adjectives;” Standards Likely To Change, Fees To Be Awarded More Readily By Charles W. Shifley The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in its…
Banner & Witcoff client Mentor Graphics achieves rare victory in inter partes review
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