Kaye Scholer is opening a new office in Silicon Valley, with the help of a veteran patent litigator from White & Case. William Coats was the manager of White & Case’s Palo Alto office prior to last year and brings some heavy clients with him to Kaye Scholer. Among his book of business, estimated at [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Sterne Kessler picked up four IP lawyers from Blank Rome, including H. Keeto Sabharwal who had been Blank Rome’s IP litigation practice group leader. Sabharwal brought Daniel Yonan, who joins as of counsel, and associates Nirav Desai and Dennies Varughese along with him. The four will work out of the Washington DC office. Sterne Kessler Goldstein [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
A Federal Circuit Court has upheld a $290 million patent infringement verdict against Microsoft and kept in place an injunction barring Microsoft from selling current versions of its massively popularWord as of January 11. Microsoft says that they will make necessary changes to the program before the deadline and that new versions will be [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
According to a press release from Intel this morning, the two companies have reached an agreement whereby AMD will drop all of its antitrust complaints, worldwide. Intel and AMD will gain joint patent rights from a new five year cross license agreement and both companies will give up any breach of contract claims from [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
The National Institute of Health has awarded a ten year, $208 million contract to Milwaukee based Foley & Lardner. The contract calls for Foley & Lardner to provide intellectual property services in areas such as patents for biotechnology. Foley & Lardner recently deferred for the second time its incoming IP associates, who will be starting [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 1, 2009
UPDATED On Friday we reported that Fish & Richardson is closing up shop in Austin. In an update to this story, the firm has announced that they are discontinuing their corporate group as a seperate practice group, effective at the end of this year. The corporate group has 14 lawyers firm wide, some of which will [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 28, 2009
According to tipsters, Fish & Richardson will be closing shop in Austin at the end of this year. Firm president Peter Devlin made the announcement via voice mail and was in Austin to discuss the closure with staff and lawyers. Fish & Richardson is a global firm with 12 offices around the world. Core [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Virtual Law Partners, which hired five new partners four weeks ago, has this week brought on four new partners for its commercial lending and intellectual property practices. David Lawson joins from Troutman Sanders, where he was a partner, to chair Virtual Law’s commercial lending practice. He earned his JD from the University of Southern California Law [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 5, 2009
Jeremy D. Protas, an attorney with the intellectual property law firm of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, has announced the establishment of a patent law scholarship specifically for LGBT (“lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender”) law students intending to pursue careers in the field of patent law. Candidates must be second-year students for the 2009-2010 academic year [...]
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