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Azuka C. Dike is featured in Chicago Lawyer & Chicago Daily Law Bulletin‘s 2018 “40 Under Forty.” Mr. Dike and 39 other talented attorneys under the age of 40 were chosen from more than 1,500 nominations for attorneys throughout Illinois. According to Law Bulletin Media, the honorees were selected for their “intelligence, passion, success in the office,…

Charles W. Shifley discusses the Supreme Court’s Oil States case in the article, “Patent challenges to antibody and gene-therapy firms on the rise.” Click here to read the article (subscription is required).

  He Who Hesitates May Lose By Sarah A. Kagan In 2013, Medinol LTD. brought suit against Cordis Corporation and Johnson & Johnson for infringement of its patents directed to articulated, coronary stents. The district court judge dismissed the entire suit based on the equitable defense of laches in 2014. The progress of the case…

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., a national intellectual property law firm dedicated to the procurement, enforcement, and litigation of intellectual property rights throughout the world, welcomes eight summer associates to the firm. The following law students will join Banner & Witcoff’s Chicago and Washington, D.C., offices this summer: Alex Bruening, Chicago, University of Alabama School of…

  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 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Design Day brings together design patent examiners, other USPTO representatives, design patent applicants, in-house and outside counsel, and others.…

  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” of Naruto, a crested macaque living deep in the rain forests of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. After the photographer published the photos, People for…

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 District of Columbia and a top ranking for intellectual property law in Illinois. Marc S. Cooperman, Timothy C. Meece and Joseph M. Potenza also received…

  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 (IPR), and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as intervenor participated in an oral argument at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal…

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 rare for automakers to sue each other over designs, in the article. Click here to read, “Startup Sues Tesla for $2 Billion Over Electric Truck…

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 have performed exceptionally well for their clients and their firms. Ms. Minsker has been recognized with the honor each year since 2013. Click here to…