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Banner & Witcoff congratulates client ReThink LLC for its recent appearance on ABC’s “Shark Tank.” Trisha Prabhu, a 16-year-old innovator, social entrepreneur and advocate from Naperville, Ill., invented ReThink as a way to stop cyberbullying. When a teenager posts a message on social media, ReThink uses its context sensitive filtering technology to determine whether or…

Charles W. Shifley evaluates the arguments of patent owners and challengers involved in inter partes review in World Intellectual Property Review. Please click here to read his article, “IPR: histrionics and statistics.” Subscription is required.

SCA Hygiene: Mountain or Mole Hill? That is the Question By Ernest V. Linek The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC (Case No. 15-927) on Nov. 1, 2016. The question presented to the court was whether and to what extent the defense of laches…

Darrell G. Mottley, who attended the Supreme Court’s arguments in Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands, discusses the justices’ take on camouflage and how it compares to the design of cheerleading uniforms in Managing Intellectual Property. The article points out that “camouflage is both copyrightable and functional, in that it provides concealment to the wearable, but the…

Banner & Witcoff received a National Tier 1 ranking in intellectual property litigation, patent litigation and patent law in the 2017 edition of U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ “Best Law Firms.” Tier 1 rankings are determined through feedback from clients and peers, as well as from information provided in law firm survey responses.…

Mr. Stockton discusses the difficulty the Supreme Court justices had in defining a test to establish the article of manufacture in Samsung v. Apple in Managing Intellectual Property. He says in the article that “it was difficult to discern whether the Supreme Court had made up its mind” about what they thought the test should…

Mr. Stockton was featured in the IPO Daily News for representing the Intellectual Property Owners Association at the 36th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications at WIPO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. According to the Daily News, Mr. Stockton supported extending WIPO’s digital access…

John P. Iwanicki and Ernest V. Linek were named 2016 Massachusetts Super Lawyers for their work in intellectual property law. Super Lawyers’ lists represent the top 5 percent of attorneys in each state. These attorneys are selected through peer nominations and evaluations, and third-party research by Thomson Reuters. Please click here for more information.

Mr. Chang discusses his experience at the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Samsung v. Apple on Oct. 11, in EE Times. In his article, he says Steve Jobs made an appearance in the courtroom: “As I watched the arguments unfold, I was reminded several times of Mr. Jobs’ influence on our lives, the tech industry, and…

Robert S. Katz, who participated in a conference on the Supreme Court’s arguments in Samsung v. Apple at American University School of Law, said that requiring patent owners to present expert testimony and consumer survey results to support charges that consumers bought the entire product because of the patented design is expensive and “breaks the system.”…