Banner & Witcoff is recognized as one of the best performing and most active law firms in inter partes review in Patexia’s 2018 IPR Intelligence Report. This third-party study –
New Claim Construction Standard at the PTAB as of November 13, 2018 By Bradley J. Van Pelt The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has now issued a final rule
Is a New Crystal Polymorph Useful and Non-Obvious Over a Prior Art Form of the Same Chemical Formula? By Sarah A. Kagan Four Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) litigants
Aseet Patel discusses the potential for more clarity for United States patents involving software innovations, and how that could lead to an improvement in depressed patent valuations, increase in patent licensing activity and raised
Sarah A. Kagan discusses the potential impact of the Federal Circuit’s decision invalidating patents on Acorda Therapeutics Inc.’s multiple sclerosis drug Ampyra in Law360. Ms. Kagan authored an amicus brief that BIO filed
Jeffrey Chang volunteered to teach public school students in Washington, D.C., about the Constitution today as part of the American Constitution Society Constitution in the Classroom program. The DC Bar partnered with
Timothy C. Meece and Audra C. Eidem Heinze analyze the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., on the business and legal community for
Kirk A. Sigmon explains how startups can avoid or mitigate intellectual property traps if they avoid five common mistakes in World Intellectual Property Review. Click here to read the article, “5 common
Does Secret Prior Art Survive in the AIA? Twelve Interested Parties Weigh In By Sarah A. Kagan In May, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Company Founder Joined and Potentially Liable for Attorneys’ Fees — An Interesting Wrinkle in a Typical “Exceptional” Case By Scott M. Kelly and Apurv Gaurav In the wake of
