Jim Laughlin was leader within the patent community and was a named partner in Smith, Benoit & Laughlin. He held important positions in various bar associations and was a good ...
As noted earlier today, the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in what has become Top Ten No. (2) Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee,Supreme Court No. 15‑446 . A copy ...
Today, the Court granted certiorari in Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee. The Court will now accept briefing from the parties and amici as part of the merits appeal. Regards, ...
In Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee, Supreme Court No. 15‑446, petitioner directly challenges the rule for post grant proceedings that claims should be given their “broadest reasonable interpretation”. This ...
Today in Merck KGaA v. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., [2016] EWHC 49 (Pat)(High Court 2016)(Norris, J.), the trial court provides a fascinating history of the two giant chemical and ...
Today in Biomet Orthopedics, LLC v. Puget Bioventures, LLC, __ Fed. App’x __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Moore, J.), in an inter partes reexamination of a patent that expired after the PTAB decision, ...
Not infrequently, applicants complain that in their applications, inventions which appear to be novel and nonobvious are simply rejected over what appears to be a random collection of prior art ...
In a case with a better than average chance for grant of certiorari, Top Ten No. (10) Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee, Supreme Court No. 15‑446, petitioner directly challenges ...
Following graduation from Princeton University with a degree in chemical engineering and Seton Hall with a Juris Doctorate, William Long had a successful first career as a corporate patent attorney, ...
Whither the era of the prominent New York powerhouse patent boutique? Since the1990’s many of the leading New York patent boutiques have disappeared through merger or otherwise. Kali Hays presents a view of ...