Survey: United States and Canada: Surviving the dot-com crash
01 October 2001
The economic downturn has affected all US and Canadian attorneys in the past year. But patents remain as popular as ever, leading to the prospect of increasing litigation in the future. Ingrid Hering examines how attorneys and courts are coping with the new challenges
A changing of the guard has occurred in patent prosecution activity in the US. An invigorated biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector is stoking the dying embers of dot-com investment enthusiasm. Louis Knobbe, co-founder of IP firm Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear in California, paints a picture of patent activity thriving in the biotech and medical devices field, remaining busy in telecommunications and electronics, while work for start-ups such as dot-coms has dropped. Over the past year the firm's clients have included Yamaha Motor Company in Japan, Australian biotech companies, research organizations in Europe, and established US west coast technology companies....
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