Banner Witcoff

Banner Witcoff received Managing Intellectual Property’s 2019 “Impact Case of the Year” award for its work representing Converse in its trademark battle against entities selling knock-off versions of the company’s iconic Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker. Managing IP presented Banner Witcoff with the honor at its annual awards program, which took place April 4 in…

Banner Witcoff shareholder Michael J. Harris is listed in the BTI Client Service All-Stars 2019 report, which recognizes attorneys for providing superior client service. He is one of 335 attorneys nationwide who were named individually, and unprompted, by clients for delivering the best client service. Harris, an experienced litigator based in the firm’s Chicago office,…

Tim Rechtien, Victoria Webb and Kim Devine examined a potential exemption to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC for an expert analysis published in Law360. In their article, the authors noted that the 2017 ruling narrowed where many patent infringement cases can be brought, and explained…

Apurv Gaurav examined three decisions that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently designated as precedential and discussed their effect on PTAB litigation for an article published in IPWatchdog. He explained that the designations provide litigants with guidance and develop the scope of PTAB litigation as an alternative to district court litigation. Click here…

Law360 recently conducted a survey on Chicago law firm office size and subsequently published a three-part series...

Aseet Patel and Ross Dannenberg discuss the Delaware District Court’s decision in Blackbird Techs. v. Niantic, Inc. and patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in the context of augmented reality software, in the January / February 2019 edition of IP Litigator.

Patexia Inc. published its 2019 edition of the Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report, a report analyzing U.S. patent prosecution and identifying Banner Witcoff as a: Top 25 Best Performing Law Firm Overall; Top 25 Best Performing Law Firm in High-Tech; and Highly ranked in the Top Most Active Law Firms Overall, in High-Tech, and in Bio-Tech.…

The March 2019 edition of Chicago Lawyer magazine features Banner Witcoff’s new ‘more efficient, brighter, more modern’ office space at 71 S. Wacker Drive in Chicago. Partner Katie Laatsch Fink highlights the features and benefits of the firm’s new space and provides insight on the firm’s reasons for moving. Click here for a PDF copy of the feature.

On February 19, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) ruled in favor of NIKE in a pair of inter partes reviews, holding that adidas failed to carry its burden of proving the challenged patents invalid.  The NIKE patents-at-issue relate to innovations in NIKE’s Flyknit business. adidas filed its petitions in April 2016.  After…