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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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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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Federal Circuit Extends Arthrex to Ex Parte PTAB Appeals

  • July 20, 2020
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On behalf of their client, Boloro Global Limited (Boloro), Oblon attorneys earlier this month secured a remand to the Patent and Trial Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for all three of Boloro’s appealed patent applications by successfully arguing the unconstitutionality of the PTAB panel appointed to hear Boloro’s appeals. In a precedential opinion, a three-judge panel of the Federal Circuit for the first time extended the reasoning of Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew to ex parte appeals for patent applications such as Boloro’s.  The decision culminates more than six months of arguments at the Federal Circuit including two sua sponte requests for additional briefing after Boloro’s Motion to Vacate and Remand was filed in January, 2020. 
 
Oblon attorneys, Michael R. Casey, Ph.D. and James Love, represented Boloro at the Federal Circuit.  Dr. Casey, who was lead counsel on the Federal Circuit appeal, attributed the success to Oblon’s use of interdisciplinary talents from both its litigation and prosecution groups.  As part of District Court and post-grant appeals, Dr. Casey also has represented a number of other clients at the Federal Circuit including Ramtron, Net2Phone, and General Electric.