And the Oscar goes to….David Quinto for his role at Quinn Emanuel as the guardian of the Academy Awards trademark. Quinto, an intellectual property attorney at the Los Angeles firm, spends a great deal of time protecting the copyrighted image of the Academy Awards worldwide. He also gets to guard the door on Sunday night [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
M. Patricia Thayer has joined the San Francisco office of Sidley Austin as a partner in its intellectual property litigation practice. The move comes as part of Sidley’s ongoing expansion in Northern California. Currently, more than 50 lawyers work out of the San Francisco office. “We are significantly expanding the scope of Sidley’s legal services in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Daniel J. Schwartz has joined Seyfarth Shaw’s Chicago office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group, the firm announced Tuesday. Schwartz was previously with Jenner & Block. Schwartz focuses on the areas of intellectual property litigation and counseling with a special emphasis on patent, trade secrets and trademark litigation, according to a press release. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 31, 2009
In what has to be the largest industry merger of the year, Disney picked up 5000 new cartoon characters from Marvel Entertainment today. Peter Parker will head up a new urban justice practice group for Disney, while Professor Xavier will help Disney develop new talent. In all seriousness, there is legal news to report here. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
McKool Smith, which brought on two new partners in March, has now hired five attorneys for its New York office. Eric P. Berger joins from Quinn Emanuel in New York. He handles intellectual property matters, including electrical engineering patent litigation. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, before graduating [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 28, 2009
Ladas & Parry has hired Michael Cornman, Jay Bondell, and Meyer Gross, all former partners at New York intellectual property firm Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell. Ladas & Parry brought on the IP team as of counsel for its New York office. They bring along associate Elliot Lipins. Established in New York in 1912, Ladas & Parry [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
K&L Gates has hired David Bernstein and Tedd Van Buskirk. Bernstein, formerly of Clifford Chance, handled transaction and securities law matters. Previously, he chaired Rogers & Wells’ corporate law practice. Van Buskirk, a partner at Hogan & Harton, handled pharmaceutical, software, electronics, and medical device patent litigation. K&L Gates LLP is a US law firm with over 1700 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
Kilpatrick Stockton, which in April laid off 24 lawyers and endured the resulting tragedy, has hired a group of three intellectual property lawyers from Day Pitney. Stephen Feingold, Marc Lieberstein, and Barry Benjamin will handle trademark litigation and transactional matters out of Kilpatrick’s New York office. Just this week, Day Pitney laid off 20 lawyers, and deferred [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 1, 2009
Phoenix, Arizona-based Lewis & Roca has launched a new Mountain View, California law office, staffed with an intellectual property team from the Palo Alto office of White & Case. The three attorneys and two paralegals will be joined by further hires as business picks up, and may move to Palo Alto. Lewis and Roca LLP is based [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 9, 2009
San Francisco-based intellectual property firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew has laid off 16 attorneys, 45 staff. From the memo: …Townsend today has joined so many other AmLaw 200 firms and implemented a reduction in force. This is the most painful decision any of us has ever had to make at this firm… As a result, today we [...]
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