By Andrew Goudsward | November 4, 2021
Kathi Vidal, the managing partner of Winston & Strawn's Silicon Valley office, has been nominated to serve as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
By Scott Graham | November 2, 2021
Carl Morales, joining from Dechert, brings deep experience in prosecuting small molecule patents, while Rufus Pichler, joining from MoFo, has experience in a wide range of technology transactions.
By Scott Graham | October 29, 2021
The Biden administration may have found a PTO nominee who can defuse the inevitable debates over Section 101 and the PTAB.
By Jessica Mach | October 28, 2021
"I was at Google for 16 years—I clearly love the place. I worked on all kinds of exciting challenges while I was there, but I felt like in some ways my work was done," Lacavera said.
By ALM Staff | October 26, 2021
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
By Scott Graham | October 26, 2021
The seven original co-founders of the organization for women in IP have passed the torch to a new board, but they keep on working in their own ways to promote women and people of color.
By Danqiong Sun and Dan Becker | October 25, 2021
Fenwick's Danqiong (Danni) Sun and Dan Becker offer a new rationale for the Federal Circuit's decision in Gilead Sciences. Inc. v. Natco Pharma Ltd., "modestly rehabilitating the decision."
By Amanda Bronstad | Scott Graham | Jasmine Floyd | October 21, 2021
Some lawyers who have handled trials this year say the COVID-19 pandemic has clouded how jurors perceive scientific and medical testimony, but others aren't convinced that juries have changed that much. More apparent, lawyers say, is that the political polarization surrounding the pandemic has seeped into the jury pool.
By Scott Graham | October 19, 2021
The judge said that a recent patent infringement trial involving an Israeli company had nothing to do with ethnicity or prejudice, and that he was "extremely offended" at the inference that he let Amazon.com play on cultural stereotypes. Albright's order clears Fenwick & West of "harsh accusations," and the judge hinted that some penalty against Kramer Levin could be forthcoming.
By Scott Graham | October 14, 2021
The Federal Circuit issued two more mandamus orders Wednesday directing U.S. District Judge Alan Albright to transfer cases out of his court. That appellate court's orders are starting to take a bite out of the nation's busiest patent docket.
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