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  Highlights of Design Day 2018 By Robert S. Katz and Bradley J. Van Pelt Several Banner & Witcoff attorneys and staff spoke at and/or attended Design Day 2018 at

  Monkey See, Monkey Do: Ninth Circuit Declines to Go Bananas over “Monkey Selfie” Copyrights By Richard S. Stockton Ten years ago, a professional wildlife photographer’s camera captured some “selfies”

Banner & Witcoff was named in the 2018 edition of Chambers and Partners as a top intellectual property law firm. The firm received a top ranking for patent prosecution in the

  Is Functional Similarity Between Compounds Sufficient to Create a Prima Facie Case of Obviousness? By Sarah A. Kagan Anacor Pharmaceuticals, the dissatisfied patent owner in an inter partes review

Robert S. Katz comments on design patent lawsuit involving Tesla and Nikola, a hydrogen-powered truck startup, in Bloomberg Technology. Mr. Katz explains the significance of design patents, and why it’s

Helen Hill Minsker is recognized in the  2018 edition of Managing Intellectual Property‘s “Top 250 Women in IP.” The annual publication recognizes female practitioners in private practice around the world who

SAS Institute, Inc. v. Iancu: Raising the Stakes to an All-Or-Nothing Game at the PTAB By Justin M. Philpott and Eric A. Zelepugas In a 5-4 decision rejecting the Patent Trial

Banner & Witcoff remembers our friend and former name partner George B. Newitt, who died on April 18, 2018. George spent most of his career at the Chicago law firm

Justin M. Philpott and Eric A. Zelepugas examine the Supreme Court’s SAS decision and what it potentially means for future Patent Trial and Appeal Board practice in Law360. Click here to read the

Oil States: Patents Are Public Rights, IPRs Are Here to Stay By Charles W. Shifley In the much-anticipated Oil States case,[i] the U.S. Supreme Court decided on April 24, 2018, that patent