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Sarah A. Kagan is quoted in an article on the Supreme Court case Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceuticals.   Click here to read the article.

Managing Intellectual Property magazine recently published an article that highlights Banner & Witcoff’s position as a top law firm for petitioners and patent owners in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings filed in 2018. Also recognized, Banner & Witcoff attorneys Blair Silver, Brad Wright, Fred Meeker, and John Hutchins as…

H. Wayne Porter serves as Editor-in-Chief and a chapter author of Drafting Patents for Litigation and Licensing, Third Edition, published by Bloomberg BNA. This treatise, which includes chapters written by attorneys from multiple firms, helps practitioners draft the broadest possible patent by synthesizing and applying lessons from case law to sustain a validity challenge. Banner…

Novaira Paul was elected a General Director on the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago Executive Board. SABA Chicago is a volunteer bar association that serves the needs of Chicagoland’s South Asian community. Its purpose is to promote professional development for South Asian legal professionals; provide a forum for South Asian legal professionals to meet and exchange information and…

Aseet Patel predicts more certainty for patent-eligibility determinations in the future, and discusses why general counsel and chief executives should rethink their patenting strategies to take the changing landscape into account, in Today’s General Counsel. Click here to read the article.

Endo v. Teva: Courts Continue to Invalidate Patent Claims Without Construing Them By Sarah A. Kagan Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., and Mallinckrodt LLC sued for patent infringement against multiple defendants who had filed Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs) to market generic versions of Endo’s Opana® ER products (extended release oxymorphone). The suits have been consolidated in…

Banner & Witcoff attorney Blair A. Silver was recognized by Law360 for his role in drafting the American Intellectual Property Law Association amicus brief that urges the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling finding the federal government qualifies as a “person” who can challenge patents in America Invents Act reviews. The AIPLA said in its brief that there is a…

Bradley J. Van Pelt and Alisa S. Abbott examine two recent cases that have provided clarity on the consequences related to filing multiple embodiments in a design application, and the consequences related to filing only a single view in a design application for Law360. Click here to read the article, “Clarifying Multi-Embodiment And Single-View Design…

Aaron Bowling and R. Gregory Israelsen are recognized in the 2018 Managing Intellectual Property “IP Stars” list of “Rising Stars.” Each year IP Stars research analysts receive and analyze information on law firms and practitioners that provide IP services. Traditionally, the individual listings in IP Stars only featured senior IP practitioners. Following market feedback, MIP…

Robert S. Katz, the chair of the International Trademark Association’s Designs Committee, discusses how INTA’s new Guidelines for Examination of Industrial Designs will allow the association to better harmonize and converge its practices in a recent INTA announcement. Click here to read the full announcement.