Brian Emfinger discusses how stakeholders can approach Congress amid continuing uncertainty about subject matter eligibility and offer their suggestions for improving Section 101 in World Intellectual Property Review. Please click here
Timothy C. Meece, V. Bryan Medlock Jr., Jason S. Shull and Audra Eidem Heinze were featured as “Legal Lions” for their successful representation of Lexmark International, Inc., in, “Law360’s Weekly Verdict: Legal Lions & Lambs.”
Banner & Witcoff client Mentor Graphics has prevailed in a Federal Circuit appeal by rival Synopsys, Inc. seeking to overturn the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s final decision in an
Banner & Witcoff client Seagate Technology won a clean sweep of four inter partes reviews invalidating two patents of Enova Technology Corp. The patents relate to computer storage device encryption
FEDERAL CIRCUIT’S EN BANC DECISION IN LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC. V. IMPRESSION PRODUCTS, INC. MAKES SIGNIFICANT DETERMINATIONS RELATING TO THE DOCTRINE OF PATENT EXHAUSTION By Jason S. Shull On February 12,
On February 12, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in an en banc opinion, ruled in favor of Banner & Witcoff client Lexmark International, Inc., finding the
Banner & Witcoff remembers our friend and partner Frank Wolffe, who died on February 3, 2016. A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Wolffe graduated from the University of Maryland in
Binal J. Patel discusses why banks are not only obtaining more patents, but also higher-quality patents, in Bloomberg Businessweek. Please click here to read the article, “Wall Street Is Trying
Katie L. Becker, Matthew P. Becker, Joseph J. Berghammer, Aaron Bowling, Scott A. Burow, Marc S. Cooperman, Azuka C. Dike, Louis DiSanto, Katie Laatsch Fink, Shawn P. Gorman, Michael J.
Ross A. Dannenberg discusses the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s rejection of Sony’s attempt to trademark the words, “Let’s Play,” in Gamasutra. Mr. Dannenberg says it’s interesting that the trademark was
