Top 2020 US patentees reveal prosecution strategies Micron, Toyota and others reveal how they engage examiners, divide patent prosecution work and overcome Section 101 issues By Rani Mehta January 29 2021
How in-house fight infringers in ‘broken’ post-GDPR world Lawyers say while data correlation can help fight cybersquatters, domain enforcement is more time-consuming than ever before By Rani Mehta January 29 2021
This week in IP: litigation backlog demands rethink, Amazon wins TM ruling, Continental... Managing IP rounds up the latest trademark, copyright and patent news, including some stories you might have missed By Charlotte Kilpatrick & Max Walters & Rani Mehta January 29 2021
LMG Rising Stars Awards Americas 2020 – Winners Announced! All of the winning up-and-coming stars in their countries and practice areas have been announced by Legal Media Group By Ed Conlon January 28 2021
Five NPEs reveal new IP monetisation plans Blackbird, Dominion Harbor, Acacia, Endpoint IP and Harfang IP share their goals for a pandemic-wrought 2021, including buying up cheap divested patents By Patrick Wingrove January 28 2021
Incoming health secretary unnerves pharma in-house counsel Senior in-house sources in innovator and generic drug companies reveal to Managing IP that they’re concerned about Xavier Becerra’s pharma antitrust record By Patrick Wingrove January 25 2021
Plaintiffs consider bench trials to combat litigation backlog Four in-house counsel, two private practice lawyers and one judge, Alan Albright, reveal how courts and lawyers are managing the COVID-induced trial holdup By Rani Mehta January 22 2021
In-house: new university patent pool will ease licensing efforts Sources from Columbia University, Nantero and Viziv Technologies reflect on whether the University Technology Licensing Program will make licensing easier By Rani Mehta January 21 2021
District court 2020 rankings: top plaintiffs, defendants and firms WSOU Investments filed the most cases, Google was the most sued business, and Rabicoff Law and Fish & Richardson were the busiest firms, according to new data By Patrick Wingrove January 20 2021
Five ways IP firms furthered diversity and inclusion last year Lawyers at Finnegan, Sterne Kessler, Haynes and Boone, Morrison & Foerster and Fish & Richardson reveal what they did through 2020 to improve D&I in their firms By Patrick Wingrove January 18 2021
This week in IP: Samsung top PTAB petitioner, UPC faces more delay, Michael Jordan wins... Managing IP rounds up the latest trademark, copyright and patent news, including some stories you might have missed By Charlotte Kilpatrick & Ed Conlon & Max Walters & Rani Mehta January 15 2021
USPTO should rework patent bar test rules, say in-house Counsel from IBM, Blaze Bioscience, and four other companies say the USPTO should expand the requirements for joining the patent bar to increase gender diversity By Rani Mehta January 14 2021
The MIP Awards and IP STARS rankings 2021 Managing IP has released the timeline for publishing the results of the 2021 MIP Awards and IP STARS research By Kingsley Egbuonu January 14 2021
AT&T chief launches US IP Alliance; wants ‘every citizen to join’ IP CEO Scott Frank, former USPTO head David Kappos, and former Federal Circuit judge Paul Michel say the USIPA meets a dire need for public education on IP By Patrick Wingrove January 12 2021
PTAB 2020 rankings: top petitioners, patentees and law firms Samsung takes top petitioner status, Masimo is most challenged company, and Fish & Richardson clears up all law firm top spots, according to new data By Patrick Wingrove January 11 2021
Landmark US trademark act ‘bolsters plaintiffs and fights fraud’ The Trademark Modernization Act, enacted two days after Christmas, helps plaintiffs obtain injunctive relief and ensures that Arthrex won’t affect the TTAB By Rani Mehta January 08 2021
Counsel hash out four issues shaping US copyright in 2021 Lawyers weigh in on a new small claims court, changes to the DMCA and other trends in the copyright arena this year By Rani Mehta January 07 2021
What counsel want from the new USPTO director Lawyers at Novartis, Siemens, Honeywell, Salesforce and elsewhere lay out the qualities and experience they think the new IP office head should have By Patrick Wingrove January 06 2021
