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The U.S. Joins the Hague Agreement By Darrell G. Mottley On February 13, 2015, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that the United

R. Gregory Israelsen discusses the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in B&B Hardware v. Hargis and examines the trademark case’s potential outcomes in the January/February 2015 edition of IP Litigator. Please click

THE SUPREME COURT POINTS COURTS TO JURIES ON ISSUE OF TRADEMARK TACKING by Anna L. King On January 21, 2015, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision, affirming the ruling

Banner & Witcoff, Helen Hill Minsker receive top ranking in the World Trademark Review 1000 2015 Banner and Witcoff is recognized as a top firm in the 2015 edition of

SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS DE NOVO REVIEW OF PATENT CLAIM CONSTRUCTION By Shawn P. Gorman and R. Gregory Israelsen On Tuesday, in Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., the Supreme

In this Law360 article, Mr. Dannenberg discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Hana Financial v. Hana Bank, in which justices held that whether two trademarks may be tacked for purposes of

Katie L. Becker, Matthew P. Becker, Joseph J. Berghammer, Scott A. Burow, Marc S. Cooperman, Louis DiSanto, Katie Laatsch Fink, Shawn P. Gorman, Michael J. Harris, Kevin C. Keenan, Michael

Mr. Spehlmann discusses how to effectively protect a biodiesel process or product technology in the January/February 2015 issue of Biodiesel Magazine. Please click here to read “Patenting Strategies in the

Mr. Fleming discusses the importance of due diligence for companies responding to accusations in Part 3 of a three-part series in Inside Counsel. Please click here to read “’Do the Due’: Due diligence practices geared

  YEAR-END BRINGS NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PATENT ELIGIBILITY By Ernest V. Linek Section 101 of the Patent Act (35 U.S.C. 101) continues to be of concern for patent practitioners, patent