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Banner and Witcoff is recognized in Vault’s Top 150 Under 150, an inaugural list that highlights the best small and midsized firms with 150 or fewer attorneys. Vault, a comprehensive resource for employer, university and internship program rankings, ratings and insight, developed the Top 150 Under 150 to provide information to students and lateral candidates…

Actionable Intelligence, a publication that covers the digital printer, MFP, copier and supply industry, discusses Timothy C. Meece’s oral argument on behalf of client Lexmark International, Inc., in “Federal Circuit Hears Oral Arguments in Lexmark v. Impression Products.” In its March 19, 2015 article, Actionable Intelligence provides background of the case, which is an appeal…

FEDERAL CIRCUIT CONSIDERS WHETHER ITC CAN PROPERLY EXCLUDE IMPORTED PRODUCTS THAT ONLY INFRINGE AFTER IMPORTATION By Erin E. Bryan On February 5, 2015, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sitting en banc heard oral arguments in Suprema, Inc. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n, Fed. Cir., No. 2012‐1170, a case involving the ability of the…

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 States has deposited its instrument of ratification to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (Hague Agreement) with the World…

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 here to read the article.

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 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, holding that trademark tacking is an inquiry that operates from the perspective of an ordinary…

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 the World Trademark Review 1000, the premier standalone research directory that focuses exclusively on trademark practices and practitioners. Please click here for more details. Helen Hill…

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 Court reversed long-standing Federal Circuit precedent under which patent claim construction was reviewed wholly de novo. Specifically, the Court held that while part of a…

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 determining priority is a question for the jury. Please click here to read, “Lawyers Weigh in on High Court Trademark Tacking Ruling.”

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 L. Krashin, Erik S. Maurer, Timothy C. Meece, Janice V. Mitrius, Jon O. Nelson, Binal J. Patel, Thomas K. Pratt, Timothy J. Rechtien, Christopher J.…