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Jeffrey Chang encourages law students’ involvement in non-traditional pro bono opportunities in the American Bar Association’s Before the Bar blog. Click here to read the article.

Heather R. Smith-Carra examines the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s recent decision involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbor defense in the IPWatchdog article, “No DMCA safe harbor for Cox’s 13-strike policy for terminating repeat infringers.” Click here to read the article.

  Capturing Inventions from FDA Label Changes By Sarah A. Kagan The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on January 9, 2018, heard oral arguments in Praxair Distribution, Inc. v. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products, Fed. Cir. No. 2016-2616, -2656, involving an appeal and cross-appeal of an inter partes review (IPR) from the U.S. Patent…

Managing Intellectual Property magazine recently published an article that highlights Banner & Witcoff’s position as a top firm at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board in 2017. Click here to read the article.  

  A Theory of Invalidity is Not Enough to Invalidate a Patent By Sarah A. Kagan The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed on different grounds a lower court’s dismissal for lack of jurisdiction under the Declaratory Judgment Act of AbbVie’s lawsuit seeking a judgement of invalidity of MedImmune’s U.S. Patent No.…

On February 6,  18 attorneys and staff in our Washington, D.C. office put together nearly 250 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. Click here for more information.

  The Safe Harbor for Divisional Applications Shrinks By Sarah A. Kagan The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed on January 23, 2018, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision that the re-examined claims of Janssen Biotech and New York University’s U.S. Patent 6,284,471 (’471) are unpatentable…

Heather R. Smith-Carra examines several noteworthy updates and decisions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the IPWatchdog article, “DMCA 2017: 9th Cir. decides safe harbor, anti-circumvention cases.” Click here to read the article.

Matthew P. Becker, Joseph J. Berghammer, Aaron Bowling, Scott A. Burow, Marc S. Cooperman, Azuka C. Dike, Audra C. Eidem Heinze, Katie Laatsch Fink, Sean J. Jungels, Kevin C. Keenan, Michael L. Krashin, Erik S. Maurer, Matthew J. May, Timothy C. Meece, Janice V. Mitrius, Jon O. Nelson, Binal J. Patel, Justin M. Philpott, Thomas K.…

Heather R. Smith-Carra examines why video game companies are seeking Digital Millennium Copyright Act exemptions for online video game preservation in IPWatchdog. Ms. Smith-Carra co-wrote the article with IPWatchdog editor Gene Quinn. Click here to read the article.