Banner Witcoff

By Jake Earl and Kevin Keenan In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff examines recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: ghost-writing in expert declarations, conspiratorial allegations of circumventing the one-year time bar, abuse of the IPR process, and more! Adduce, Reuse, Recycle. PTAB ain’t afraid of no ghost-writers. The Noco Company, Inc. v.…

Banner Witcoff is proud to take be a part of National Pro Bono Week October 23-29, 2022.  The firm is continuously honored and humbled to donate our time and resources to pro bono work and looks forward to continuing to serve our local communities with our pro bono efforts. The firm and lawyers recognize the…

Spending Several Weeks at Other Firm’s Offices to Gain Different IP Perspective Leading intellectual property firms Banner Witcoff based in the US, and Withers & Rogers and Boult Wade Tennant LLP, based in Europe, have started an associate exchange program. As the law firms have mutual clients, it made sense to create an informal exchange…

By Hengyi Jiang and Priya Persaud In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff examines recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: reconsideration of institution decision based on Director’s Interim Procedure, showing examiner error during prosecution to obtain IPR institution, public accessibility of a reference, and more! Second chance but same result: institution denied. Google…

September 22, 2022 — Banner Witcoff has awarded two law students the Donald W. Banner Diversity Fellowship. Created to strengthen diversity and inclusion in intellectual property law, the Fellowship provides recipients with $5,000 for law school tuition or other school-related expenses. The Donald W. Banner Diversity Fellowship is open to law students who identify as…

By Rachel Bender & Robert Boyd In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff attorneys examine recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: late notice of deposition, correcting clerical errors in a petition, the overlooked or misapprehended standard for a request for rehearing, and more! Being late can sometimes be excused. IronSource LTD. V. Digital…

The American Bar Foundation named Darrell G. Mottley the National Chair of the Fellows at the 2022 Fellows Annual Business Meeting. Darrell previously served as Chair-Elect of the Fellows. The ABF Fellows is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication…

Banner Witcoff is pleased to announce that it has expanded its life sciences practice with the addition of attorney Zhengyu Feng, Ph.D. (Feng), and patent agent Bronwen Loeb, Ph.D., to their Washington, D.C. office. Both Feng and Bronwen join from Faegre Drinker, following the addition of Mercedes K. Meyer, Ph.D., who joined the firm in…

By Jay Bombien and Kurt Riester In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff examines recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: Director review regarding interference estoppel, untimely supplemental evidence, subsidiary’s merger causing IPR to be time-barred, and more! The call stands: Director confirms interference that didn’t consider prior art doesn’t bar IPR. Zynga Inc.…

Katie Laatsch Fink and Anna King are featured in the 2022 edition of Crain’s Chicago Business Notable Women in Law. The editorial celebrates senior-level women in law within the Chicago area who have made an impact in their industry and workplace. The Notable Women in Law editorial will appear in the September 5th print edition…