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…
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,…
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…
Banner & Witcoff’s Portland office address has changed. Effective immediately, the Firm’s new address is: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. One World Trade Center 121 Southwest Salmon Street 11th Floor Portland, OR 97204 The Firm’s phone and FAX numbers remain unchanged. Please continue to contact us by phone or by FAX at the following numbers: • …
Richard S. Stockton discusses design patents in GigaOM
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