Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr recently helped a tiny company win a case against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and get its patent reinstated after a seven-year lapse.
SprinGuard Technology Group Inc. of Concord, Mass., a developer of safety masks and goggles, filed the District of Massachusetts lawsuit against the PTO in December 2008 because the agency didn’t allow it to pay maintenance fees on a patent application after the company’s former attorney, Richard A. Jordan, missed a deadline. Jordan was disbarred in Massachusetts in 2007 and later died.
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