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The PTAB recently issued a decision that handed Banner Witcoff client Comcast another win in an ongoing patent battle.

A precedential opinion on the Board’s limits to deny a motion to amend, collateral estoppel, and using multiple petitions to address means-plus-function claim terms are a few of the topics that Banner Witcoff’s Grant Hodgson and Bowen Li covered in our latest installment of PTAB Highlights.

In an article recently published by Corporate Counsel, Banner Witcoff’s Kirk Sigmon provides patent owners a trio of strategies to help prevent their patents from being misunderstood.

A Banner Witcoff team led by Brian Emfinger and Binal Patel represented Clear-Vu Lighting as petitioner in an inter partes review of a patent directed to using blue light to inactivate certain types of bacteria.

Enablement, indefiniteness, and privity are just a few of the topics that Banner Witcoff’s Roshan Bhattarai and Josh Davenport covered in our latest installment of PTAB Highlights.

Banner Witcoff’s Evi Christou summarizes the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in a key trademark case.

In its annual “IP Stars” guide, Managing IP recognized Banner Witcoff for its patent prosecution, PTAB litigation and trademark practices. The guide also lists 17 firm attorneys as IP Stars.

Banner Witcoff’s Liz Brodzinski was quoted in two recent articles examining a surge of applications seeking to trademark the slogans “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe.”

As a professional services sponsor of the Maryland Energy Innovation Accelerator, Banner Witcoff provided pro bono IP counseling to teams participating in the program designed to help commericialize clearn energy technologies.

We are experiencing a critical moment in our nation’s history following the senseless deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others. These and other recent troubling events underscore