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Countdown to June 1: Unitary Patents and Unified Patent Court Decisions Loom for European Patent Owners

Mar 30 2023

A European Union flag flies in front of a building.

European Patent Holders Should Address Opt-Out Question Before Unified Patent Court Begins Operations

Nov 29 2022

DynaEnergetics’ Win in PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel Ruling Named a Top 10 Patent Decision of 2020 by IP Law 360

Dec 18 2020

Womble Bond Dickinson client DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH’s precedent-setting victory in a long-running dispute with an energy industry rival was named one of IP Law360’s 10 Biggest Patent Rulings of 2020.

China Announces Long-Awaited—and Significant—Updates to Intellectual Property Protections

Dec 17 2020

For months, global patent practitioners have been expecting China to announce sweeping, significant changes to the nation’s system of intellectual property laws—and they were not disappointed.

Jeff Whittle Recognized as an IAM Global Leader in Patent Law

Nov 23 2020

IAM Media wrote, “Licensing maven Jeffrey Whittle has an instinctive feel for IP value creation and the negotiation and transactional IP skills to help make successful patent commercialization a reality."

Proposed Alternative PTAB Discretionary Denial Analysis in View of Serial Petitions

Nov 19 2020

Womble Bond Dickinson patent attorney litigators set forth a proposed alternative analysis to the PTAB’s current General Plastic factors: the “Serial Babcock-Train Tracks”.

Womble Bond Dickinson Recognized for Patent Pro Bono Work; Azie Aziz, Tony Chen, Bill Jacobs, Seiko Okada & Dan Ovanezian Receive Individual Honors

Oct 27 2020

The US Patent and Trademark Office has recognized Womble Bond Dickinson for its pro bono support of the USPTO Patent Pro Bono Program and its work with underfinanced inventors and small businesses. In addition, five Womble Bond Dickinson team members were honored individually with 2019 Patent Pro Bono Achievement Certificates.

Joshua Davis Speaks on Zoom IP Trials at LES Annual Meeting

Oct 26 2020

Entitled “Remote Patent Trials and Depositions in the COVID World,” Davis’s presentation chronicled a case in which Womble Bond Dickinson earned a major patent victory for Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in the first Zoom trial in the Southern District of New York during the pandemic.

Proposed Alternative PTAB Discretionary Denial Factors In View of Co-Pending Parallel Litigation

Oct 02 2020

Patent attorney litigators Brent Babcock and Tyler Train propose replacing the PTAB’s current NHK-Fintiv factors with the alternative “Babcock-Train Factors” set forth. These alternative factors have been crafted in an effort to provide clearer institution guidance to the PTAB’s Administrative Patent Judges, and to afford a neutral perspective with respect to both the particular posture of the party in the PTAB proceeding (petitioner or patent owner) and the specific venue of the parallel district court litigation.

An Initial Statistical Analysis of the PTAB’s Recent “NHK-Fintiv Factor” Institution Decisions

Sep 22 2020

The “NHK-Fintiv rule” originates from two precedential PTAB decisions, in which the PTAB applied the rule and then exercised its discretion to deny institution of the IPR trials. The NHK-Fintiv rule has now been applied by the PTAB in two dozen cases, providing a small but potentially informative statistical sample size. In view of the impact that this now precedential rule has had on PTAB practice in the last few months, this discussion endeavors to provide a high-level statistical analysis of how the PTAB has sought to balance the six NHK-Fintiv factors in reaching its post-Fintiv institution decisions.

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