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Katie Laatsch Fink and Rebecca Rokos are featured in Crain’s 2018 Notable Women Lawyers in Chicago. The special section of the publication celebrates senior-level women in law within the Chicagoland area who have made significant contributions to their industry over the last year. Notable Women Lawyers in Chicago appears in the July 30 edition of…

  On July 11, our Washington, D.C. office put together 300 sandwiches for Martha’s Table to use on McKenna’s Wagon, its mobile food truck that provides its downtown neighbors with a healthy meal 365 days a year. This is the second time the firm volunteered for this organization this year. Click here for more information.

Robert H. Resis, chair of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) Amicus Committee, has joined other intellectual property lawyers in representing the IPLAC as amicus curiae in a case in the U.S. Supreme Court. IPLAC is contributing to analysis in the case Regeneron Pharmaceuticals v. Merus. IPLAC’s amicus brief argues that a finding…

  Patent Wars: Genome Editing By Sarah A. Kagan The hotly contested patent rights to CRISPR-Cas9 “genome editing” technology are still unsettled, as two groups of inventors await a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). A panel of the Federal…

  BIO’s China Summit Highlights Trends in BioPharma Market By Pei Wu In June, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization celebrated its 25th anniversary in Boston. The BIO International Convention drew more than 16,000 attendees from more than 5,000 companies, including the world’s leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, setting a Guinness World Record for the largest business-partnering…

  Full Measure of Compensation for Infringement By Sarah A. Kagan Yet again the Supreme Court struck down a rigid Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rule in favor of a careful parsing of the patent statutes. The Supreme Court handed down its opinion June 22, 2018, in WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation…

On June 28, 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board denied two Skechers’ inter partes review challenges directed at design patents covering NIKE’s popular FREE outsole designs. After defeating Skechers’ two most recent challenges, NIKE has prevailed on all 15 challenges mounted by Skechers over the past two years. Banner & Witcoff represented NIKE in all 15…

  Should “Blocking Patents” be Used as a Blunt Weapon or as a Factor in a Sophisticated Economic Analysis? By Sarah A. Kagan In recent oral arguments in a dispute over the obviousness of U.S. patents covering the use of $1.7 billion/year drug Ampyra® for the alleviation of walking disorders in multiple sclerosis patients, counsel…

The D.C. Bar Global Legal Practice Task Force, chaired by Darrell G. Mottley, was selected as the recipient of the 2018 Frederick B. Abramson Award. This award recognized the Task Force’s outstanding work in addressing how the D.C. Bar can respond to issues raised by increasing globalization in the practice of law. The D.C. Bar recognized the work of…

Scott M. Kelly and Kirk A. Sigmon discuss the copyright issues under U.S. law presented by live streaming of video game inputs in Interactive Entertainment Law Review. Click here for complimentary access to their article, “The key to key presses: eSports game input streaming and copyright protection.”