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Headquartered within steps of the USPTO with an affiliate office in Tokyo, Oblon is one of the largest law firms in the United States focused exclusively on intellectual property law.
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1968
Norman Oblon with Stanley Fisher and Marvin Spivak launched what was to become Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP, one of the nation's leading full-service intellectual property law firms.
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Outside the US, we service companies based in Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and farther corners of the world. Our culturally aware attorneys speak many languages, including Japanese, French, German, Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Chinese.
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Oblon's professionals provide industry-leading IP legal services to many of the world's most admired innovators and brands.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued final rules implementing the inventor's oath or declaration provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) on August 14, 2012.
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How the EPO and USPTO Guidance Will Help Shape the Examination of Artificial Intelligence Inventions
Robert Tarcu has an article featured in IPWatchdog entitled "How the EPO and USPTO Guidance Will Shape the Examination of Artificial Intelligence Inventions."
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Q&A: Copyright and trademark litigator Brian Darville on Google v. Oracle
Brian Darville was featured in the Westlaw Journal IP in an expert interview on the Google v. Oracle case.
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Delaware District Court Finds Exceptional Case Based on Plaintiff's Opposition To Alice Motion
On March 18, 2019, the court in Finnavations LLC v. Payoneer, Inc., No. 1-18-cv-00444, Dkt. No. 35 (D. Del. Mar. 18, 2019) granted defendants' motion for exceptional case and awarded defendants attorneys' fees.
Is the Canard that the Board Never Makes Credibility Determinations Finally Dead?
In Winner Int'l Royalty Corp. v. Wang, 202 F.3d 1340, 53 USPQ2d 1580 (Fed. Cir. 2000)("Winner v. Wang"), a panel of the Federal Circuit asserted that the administrative patent judges ("APJs") can never hear and see witnesses under examination and cross-examination and that, accordingly, they cannot make credibility assessments.
PTAB Issues Three New Precedential Opinions
The PTAB designated three decisions as precedential this week (in addition to two earlier this month), indicating that the PTO may be in the process of designating precedential opinions on a number of issues, in line with revised Standard Operating Procedure 2 for designating precedential and informative decisions.
