As the global economy continues to integrate, companies are wrestling with how to manage innovations across borders. Given that most patentable inventions are developed in-house, can a global invention policy help attract and keep the most innovative employees? Are assignment agreements with employees appropriate regardless of where the innovation originates? Join our panelists Catherine Muyl, … Continue Reading
Join us on August 11, 2020 at 9am PDT/12pm EDT for a complimentary webinar – What Every IP Attorney Needs to Know About Bankruptcy Law: Practical Advice, Issues and Options for Intellectual Property. During this webinar, panelists Mark Salzberg and Ivan Rothman will provide practical, real world advice, including a review of: IP treatment under the … Continue Reading
Join us on July 16, 2020 at 12pm EDT/9am PDT for a complimentary webinar – After Arthrex: The Implications of Arthrex and Its Progeny Going Forward. Last fall, the Federal Circuit answered a challenge to the constitutionality of the appointment of administrative patent judges to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The court held that … Continue Reading
Inventors and lawyers — both in-house and firm counsel — involved in the prosecution of patents have a duty of candor to the US Patent Office, and breaching that duty renders patents unenforceable for inequitable conduct. Once common in litigation, allegations of inequitable conduct faced a more stringent review after the Federal Circuit’s decision in … Continue Reading