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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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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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USPTO Officially Postpones the ‘Track One' Start Date. We had previously reported the delay on April 21, 2011
USPTO Postpones Effective Date of "Track One" Fast-Track Patent Processing Washington – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has postponed the start date of the Track One prioritized patent examination program, which was scheduled to go into effect on May 4, 2011, until further notice due to reduced spending authority in the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011.
Director Kappos Announces Funding Cuts Affecting USPTO Operations
Director Kappos announced today that the USPTO would be making some "difficult decisions" due to funding cuts reflected in the FY 2011 budget signed on April 15, 2011 by President Obama (Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (Pub. Law 112-10)). The Director anticipates that the USPTO may be operating at the FY 2011 level "for the foreseeable future".
The Honorable Gerald J. Mossinghoff to Appear on BioCentury TV Regarding the Microsoft v. i4i Case
The Hon. Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Senior Counsel to the Oblon, Spivak law firm, and former U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks under President Reagan, appeared on CBS' affiliate WUSA9 talk show, BioCentury This Week, on Sunday morning, April 24.
