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IP Alert: Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto

Banner & Witcoff shareholder Joseph M. Potenza was recently recognized by BTI Consulting Group as a 2013 BTI Client Service All-Star. He was one of only 19 intellectual property attorneys who were named individually, and unprompted, by clients for delivering the best service. BTI Consulting Group, a leading provider of strategic research to the legal services industry,…

  YOU MUST START YOUR CAMPAIGN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT A GENERIC TOP LEVEL DOMAIN BY MARCH 13   By Richard S. Stockton and Victoria R.M. Webb The window for objecting to the approximately 1,900 new Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) applications that are being considered for introduction to the Internet domain name system closes on March 13, 2013. The objection mechanism is an inter partes process adjudicated by…

FEDERAL CIRCUIT APPEARS SPLIT ON PATENTABILITY OF COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED BUSINESS METHODS by Bradley C. Wright On February 8, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reheard en banc the question whether computer-implemented business methods are eligible for a U.S. patent.  The case, CLS Bank International v. Alice Corporation, posed to the full court…

Eight Banner & Witcoff Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers in America 2013 Edition

Helen Hill Minsker is ranked as a World's Leading Trademark Professional in the World Trademark Review 1000

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., is pleased to announce that the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon granted summary judgment of noninfringement in favor of firm client NIKE, Inc.The case, Lyons v. NIKE, Civil Action No. 2:08-cv-00403 (D. Oregon), involved NIKE’s Air Jordan XXI and Air Jordan XXII shoes. NIKE’s Air Jordan XXI and XXII…

Matthew P. Becker, Joseph J. Berghammer, Scott A. Burow, Marc S. Cooperman, Louis DiSanto, Katherine L. Fink, Shawn P. Gorman, Michael J. Harris, Michael L. Krashin, Erik S. Maurer, Timothy C. Meece, Charles L. Miller, Janice V. Mitrius, Jon O. Nelson, Binal J. Patel, Thomas Pratt, Timothy J. Rechtien, Christoper J. Renk, Charles W. Shifley,…

IP Alert: Potential Benefits to Filing Certain U.S. Patent Applications Before AIA Changes Go Into Effect on March 16, 2013

On Jan. 9, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Banner & Witcoff client NIKE, Inc. in Already, LLC, DBA Yums v. NIKE, Inc., U.S. No. 11-982. In the case, the justices unanimously held that NIKE’s convenant not to sue Already over its sneakers prevented Already from challenging the validity of NIKE’s trademark registration on NIKE’s iconic Air…