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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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REDSKINS Decision Issued By The U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
The full opinion of the PTO's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in Harjo v. Pro Football Inc. is available by clicking on the PDF link above.
REDSKINS Decision Commentary: The Redskins Case: Trademark Law & Post Modernism
The Trademark Trial & Appeal Board ["TTAB"] issued its decision in Harjo v. Pro Football Inc. on April 2, 1999 culminating some six years of contentiousness between the parties over several trademarks of the Washington Redskins football organization consisting of or including the word REDSKINS.
Oblon, Spivak's Trademark Practice Group Responds To World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Request For Comments On Internet Domain Names
The Trademark Practice Group of Oblon, Spivak has filed a detailed response to the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Request for Comments (RFC-3) relating to the Internet Domain Name Process.
AFG Industries, Inc. and Asahi Glass Company, Ltd., v. Cardinal IG Company, Inc., and Andersen Windows, Inc., 98-1375
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT NOTICE OF ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ACCOMPANIED BY OPINION OPINION FILED AND JUDGMENT ENTERED: 01/05/99 The attached opinion announcing the judgment of the court in your case was filed and judgment was entered on the date indicated above. The mandate will be issued in due course.
First Interference Involving 11 Patents–Such Interferences Offer Economic Benefits To Patent Owners
The intellectual property law firm Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., announced today that it is handling an interference that involves 11 patents. Never before has there been an interference involving this many patents, and the economic implications will be of interest to all patent owners.
Patent And Trademark Office's Campaign To Relax Judicial Review Of Its Decisions Soundly Rejected By The Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit
In a major decision on May 4, 1998 -- In re Zurko, No. 96-1258 (Fed. Cir. 1998) -- a unanimous twelve-judge Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit soundly rejected the Patent and Trademark Office's concerted efforts to lower the Court's standard of review of findings of fact by the Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ("BPAI").
Significant Aspects of the New Rules effective December 1, 1997 (Second in a Series)
Effective December 1, 1997 Background Recently we sent you information concerning the new procedures for continuation applications under the new rules. The following are additional comments and practical suggestions involving other portions of the rules that we believe likely to be of most interest to our clients. There are many other technical changes in the rules which we do not mention here. However, if you have questions about any aspect of the rules, please feel free to contact us.
New Procedures For Continuation Applications (First in a Series)
Effective December 1, 1997 Background The new PTO rules permit essentially the same alternatives in filing applications that were possible under the previous rules, although there are a number of procedural changes of which you should be aware as the new rules will affect prosecution strategy in filing continuing applications.
US Rulings Muddle Patent Interference Law
US Rulings Muddle Patent Interference Law on Corroboration and Reduction to Practice Federal Circuit Defies Precedents and Logic by Charles L. Gholz * Panels of the Federal Circuit are not supposed to change the law. In theory, the law is supposed to be altered only by en banc decisions of the court.1 In practice, however, recent opinions in two important areas of patent interference law 2 strikingly demonstrate that panels of the court are taking positions inconsistent with supposedly binding precedent.
IP Worldwide Jan/Feb 1997 p.11
