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September 30, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

The IP Survey

When the framers of the Constitution charged Congress with "securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries," they couldn't have dreamed how complex intellectual property protection would become.
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September 30, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

High Court Set To Tackle IP Tying In Antitrust Cases

Small Companies Will Suffer If Court Overturns Precedent
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October 10, 2013 | Law.com

Spat Over Older Partners' Benefits Roils Brinks Hofer

Roy Hofer, a former name partner at the Chicago-based IP boutique known until recently as Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione, has left to start a solo practice. Hofer's departure comes amid an internal dispute at his former firm, now called Brinks Gilson & Lione, over whether it should cover the cost of older partners' health benefits.
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July 10, 2008 | National Law Journal

Chicago-based IP firm opens N.C. office

Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, a Chicago-based intellectual property law firm, is opening an office in Raleigh/Durham, N.C., with the hiring of two local patent attorneys who the firm hopes will help expand its existing client ties there. Allen Baum and Josh Elliott will join the firm as partners from the Raleigh-based Hutchison Law Group, and the new office will open on July 15.
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July 11, 2008 | Law.com

Chicago-Based IP Firm Opens N.C. Office

Brinks Hofer, a Chicago-based intellectual property law firm, is opening an office in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., with the hiring of two local patent attorneys from Hutchison Law Group, who the firm hopes will help expand its existing client ties as well as adding clients in the pharmaceutical and biotech area. Brinks Hofer also has offices in Indianapolis; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Arlington, Va.; and Salt Lake City, which it opened in 2006.
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November 28, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

Who Protects IP America: 2005

Boutiques have disappeared, litigation has exploded, and patents have become a corporate profit center. But one thing has remained stable in the IP world: the firms who protect corporate America's IP jewels. IP Law & Business' annual survey asks the Fortune 250 to name their primary IP firms. Although rankings have shifted, the top 10 has held steady over the years. This year Jones Day made the biggest leap, moving from 10th place to tie Kirkland & Ellis for first place.
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October 08, 2007 | National Law Journal

Big Pharma's loss is law firm's gain

When Pfizer announced earlier this year that it was closing its Ann Arbor research facility, a managing partner at Gilson & Lione put in a fast call to the pharmaceutical company's law department. He figured Pfizer's cutbacks might offer the perfect opportunity for a firm with a highly specialized biotech-pharmaceutical practice. He was right.
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October 21, 2004 | Law.com

Pumping Up the Patents

Instead of worrying that jurors might not comprehend the patented technology behind his client Aero Products' self-inflating mattresses, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione's William Frankel fretted that the invention might seem so simple that lawyers for defendant Intex Recreation Corp. could easily shoot down his infringement claims. Frankel took the air out of the defense's case by letting the inventor tell his story without talking "patent-ese."
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June 01, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

The Needle's Edge

Patent trials are expensive and painful, especially for small companies whose resources are diverted away from business and toward the courtroom. But for Filtertek, a 900-employee company based outside of Chicago, a recent patent battle may have been the best thing to happen to the company, and not just because it walked away with a $7.3 million settlement.
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Richard Kaplan of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Publication Date: 2009-06-18
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For Reynolds American, Star Scientific's billion-dollar patent infringement case was like a bad, two-pack-a-day smoking habit: It took a while to kick. But after a Baltimore federal district court jury this week cleared Reynolds of infringement--and found Star's patents invalid, to boot--the tobacco company can finally take a deep breath. And for that it can thank our Litigator of the Week, Richard Kaplan of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, who's been the tobacco company's counsel throughout eight long years of litigation.

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