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Banner Witcoff’s Erik Maurer and Alex Bruening explore how lessons from the pharmaceutical industry may influence agriculture patent reform, as competition and innovation for food production increase. The article dives into the similarities between the agriculture and pharmaceutical industries, examines whether pharmaceutical-type patent reforms might be leveraged to reduce fertilizer and seed costs and explains…

Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) recognized 18 Banner Witcoff attorneys in its 2022 edition of “IP Stars,” a guide to the world’s top intellectual property firms and practitioners. Additionally, the firm’s trademark practice was highly recommended in Illinois, and its patent prosecution practice was highly recommended in both Illinois and Washington, D.C. MIP recognized the following…

By Jihan Joo and Kevin Keenan In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff attorneys examine recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: application of Director Vidal’s recent Memorandum on the Fintiv analysis, the rebuttable presumption that a claim is obvious if its range overlaps with a range taught by the prior art, relying on…

Banner Witcoff’s Mercedes Meyer has been recognized in the 2022 LMG Life Sciences Awards shortlists for patent strategy. Mercedes advises on developing patent strategies, managing intellectual property rights, and making associated investments and acquisitions. The Life Sciences Awards, now in its 10th year, aims to highlight the best in practice in the industry by surveying…

Banner Witcoff is pleased to announce that it has expanded its life sciences practice with the arrival of Mercedes K. Meyer, Ph.D., who brings over 20 years of experience in intellectual property law to the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Mercedes joins from Faegre Drinker where she represented leading life science and technology companies maintaining an…

By Hugh Warren and Jacob Grotenrath In this installment, Banner Witcoff attorney Hugh Warren and summer associate Jacob Grotenrath examine recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: impermissible hindsight, failure to show reasonable expectation of success, the Board’s discretion to identify a real party-in-interest (RPI), and more! Don’t contradict the art! STMicroelectronics, Inc. v. The Trustees…

Binal Patel was appointed board member of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms. According to its website, The Chicago Committee seeks racial and ethnic diversity in the legal profession by collaborating with its members to: drive sustainable institutional change at law firms and corporate legal departments; provide professional development, and cultivate the…

By Alex Bruening and Drew Tucker In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff examines recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: the showing of error under the Advanced Bionics framework, the timing for joinder requests, the use of stipulations to avoid discretionary denial, and more! Hold your horses! The PTAB won’t consider if the…

By Paul Ansani and Leon Cao In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff summer associates examine recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: the interplay between PGR and IPR, Board discretion to consider a new ground against a substitute claim, the consequences of translation errors, and more! No two bites at the PTAB apple.…