Dolby v. Lava: security deposit at pro tem stage
In the suit DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB & ANR. v. LAVA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (CS(COMM) 350/2024 with I.As.) before the Delhi High Court, the Plaintiff is a patent holder for a representative group of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), including three active patents...
Government launches SEPs consultation to boost UK innovation
The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has today launched a consultation on potential measures to address challenges in the UK's Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) ecosystem. A patent that protects technology that is essential to implementing a technical standard...
Apple v. Masimo and the ITC: a test of patent rights, product design, and trade enforcement
Patent lawyers watching the Apple v. Masimo case unfold at the Federal Circuit are seeing a live example of key issues in US patent enforcement. These include the scope of ITC exclusion orders, the role of product design in infringement analysis, and the growing trend...
What do patent drafting and Jell-O™ have in common?
If predicting the future were easy, most readers of The Patent Lawyer would be using their powers to buy lottery tickets, not keeping abreast of global patent law updates. Predicting the future, however, is precisely the task attorneys are faced with when drafting a...
Veteran IP attorney Bruce D Sunstein releases essential guide to professional networking
BOSTON, March 31, 2025 — Networking for Business Development, a new book by Bruce D Sunstein, founding partner at renowned Boston intellectual property law firm Sunstein LLP, has been released and is now available to the public through Amazon and Ideas for Leaders....
RightHub adds AI docketing and events & tasks functionality to its IP management platform
London, United Kingdom - 25 March 2025 - RightHub, the company making it simple to protect, commercialize, and maintain intellectual property (IP), has today announced new added functionality to its AI-powered IP Management System (IPMS) platform in the form of...
Pan Lee joins Venable’s expanding IP group in San Francisco
Washington, DC (March 25, 2025) – Venable LLP is pleased to announce that Pan C. Lee has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a counsel in the Intellectual Property Litigation – Technology Group. Lee has nearly 15 years of experience handling intellectual...
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UK banks lag US banks in innovation – only 290 patents filed in the last decade
The UK’s biggest banks have filed just a fraction of the patent applications of their American counterparts over the last 10 years, with the top five UK banks collectively applying for just 290 patents while the top 3 US banks collectively applied for 5,027, says...
Department of Justice (DOJ) litigator rejoins Finnegan
WASHINGTON, DC, January 22, 2024 — Finnegan is pleased to welcome Dan Roland back to the partnership. Dan returns to the firm from the US Department of Justice (DOJ), where he was a trial attorney and served as lead counsel in the Civil Division, National Courts...
German patent team at HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER continues to grow
At the beginning of 2024, HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER expanded the German patent team by four experienced and well-known new additions to the Düsseldorf site. The Düsseldorf patent team under the Managing Partner, Klaus Haft, will now comprise 26 lawyers and patent attorneys....
ERS Genomics and StemSight sign CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement
License agreement provides StemSight access to CRISPR/Cas9 technology to be applied in development of cell therapies for corneal blindness Dublin, Ireland, and Tampere, Finland, 17 January 2024: ERS Genomics Limited (‘ERS’), the CRISPR licensing Company, which was...
Bolstering Taylor Wessing’s market-leading international IP practice with Giles Crown appointment in London
Taylor Wessing is pleased to announce the appointment of Giles Crown as a partner in its international IP practice, bolstering its highly regarded IP service offering with his wealth of experience and wide-ranging repertoire. Giles will be joining the firm in February...
New ECTA Patent Committee: mission, vision, and destiny
ECTA has created a Patent Committee. This is quite a surprising move considering that ECTA has the reputation of being an association specialized in other IP rights, particularly trademarks. At first glance, it is surprising that a reputed trademark association like...
Novartis v. Natco Pharma Limited: pre-grant opponents in patent examination process
Patent law is characterized by a delicate balance between fostering innovation and ensuring that patents are granted on meritorious grounds. Central to this balance is the mechanism of pre-grant opposition, designed to facilitate a rigorous examination of patent...
Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) joins Open Invention Network community
Contract manufacturing is nothing new for OEMs across a spectrum of industries. The increasingly complex parts being assembled, and the exacting standards required to do so effectively make it daunting to manufacture a robust and reliable piece of consumer...
Carpmaels & Ransford announces new Senior Associate promotion
Rachel Taylor was promoted to Senior Associate as of 1 January 2024 Carpmaels & Ransford is pleased to announce the promotion of Rachel Taylor to Senior Associate, effective from 1 January 2024. Rachel joined Carpmaels & Ransford in 2005 before qualifying as a...
FinLocker issued patent to assess a consumer’s readiness for a product or service using consumer-permissioned data
The patent is the seventh patent issued to FinLocker since 2017 to protect, aggregate, and analyze potentially sensitive data for the purpose of guiding and preparing consumers to achieve their financial goals, including homeownership. ST. LOIS, MO — January 9, 2023 —...
Embracing DOCX and enabling AI: the future of patent filings at the USPTO in 2024
After several, long delays, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seems to be finally moving forward with implementing the DOCX format requirement for certain patent applications. In its effort to modernize and streamline its systems, the USPTO is...
Thaler v. Comptroller: the UKSC rules that AI cannot be an ‘inventor’
To the surprise of no one, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) has finally ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be an inventor for the purposes of UK patent law. This judgment accords with the decisions of the lower courts in the UK and the initial ruling of the...
Sterne Kessler elects six new directors in 2024
Washington, DC – January 4, 2024 – Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is proud to announce that six attorneys have been elected to the directorship effective January 1, 2024. The six attorneys who have been promoted to director are David W Haars; Christopher M...
Roeland Grijpink promoted to partner at HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER
Leading European IP boutique HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER has promoted Roeland Grijpink to partner. Roeland joined the team in Amsterdam in 2012. His practice covers all areas of intellectual property law, with a special focus on patents. His clients include multinationals as...
Leason Ellis appoints Yuval H Marcus as Managing Partner
Westchester-based Intellectual Property Law Firm appoints Yuval Marcus as Managing Partner as the firm celebrates its 15th anniversary under the leadership of Founding Partner David Leason White Plains, New York — Leason Ellis is pleased to announce that Yuval Marcus...
Harter Secrest & Emery elects three new partners
Lauren R Mendolera, Jodi A Reynolds, and Michael Roche elected to the firm’s partnership Rochester, New York— January 2, 2024— Harter Secrest & Emery, a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, is pleased to announce that Lauren R...
Eversheds Sutherland announces promotion of US attorneys, eight partners, and 12 counsel
December 27, 2023 – Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the election of eight new partners and the promotion of 12 new counsel – two of whom practice intellectual property law – effective January 1, 2024. “I am thrilled to announce the well-deserved promotion...
Why so opaque? Transparency and the Unified Patent Court
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Rules on public access were meticulously debated in the run-up to the UPC's launch. As a court, its task first and foremost should be to provide justice, and justice should be transparent. Right? This seemed to be the intention behind...
Lenovo’s Zenbook attack: valid claim or troll move?
Lenovo has sued ASUS TeK in the Northern District of California (23-CV-5892), alleging ASUS’ Zenbook Pro laptop infringes four of Lenovo’s patents: a rotatable hinge (US Patent No. 8,687,354), diagonal touchpad scrolling (7,760,189), a wireless wake feature...
Ojam Bullrich Flanzbaum appoints Paula Galván as partner
The law firm specializing in Intellectual Property, Ojam Bullrich Flanzbaum, has appointed Paula Galván as a partner, who has been part of the team of this company since February 2021. Paula is a lawyer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and an Industrial...
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