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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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Oblon's professionals provide industry-leading IP legal services to many of the world's most admired innovators and brands.
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Oblon, Spivak Obtains The Most U.S. Utility Patents For 19th Year: Firm Becomes the First to Secure More Than 4,000 U.S. Patents in a Single Year
For Immediate Release March 1, 2010 Alexandria, Va. -- The intellectual property law firm Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., has obtained 4,043 U.S. utility patents issued in 2009, according to numbers provided in the March issue of IP Today magazine. The firm also secured 72 design patents last year, for a total of 4,115 patents obtained. These numbers mean that Oblon, Spivak is the first law firm to obtain more than 4,000 U.S. patents in a single year, and the firm has maintained the top spot among patent firms for obtaining patents for 19 consecutive years.
False Patent Marking
In the United States it is unlawful to falsely mark articles with "patent" or any word or number indicating the same is patented or use such designations in advertising for the purpose of deceiving the public.
Factoring Out of Functional Elements Proper in Design Patent Infringement Analysis
T he U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued their second significant design patent opinion in the past two weeks. In the most recent decision, the Court affirmed a finding of no-infringement of a design patent after a district court had first construed the claim by factoring out the functional elements of the design. Richardson v. Stanley Works, Inc., No. 2009-1354 (Fed. Cir., Mar. 9, 2010).
Federal Circuit Urges Caution in Construing Design Patents
In a decision issued February 24, 2010 (Case No. 2008-1596), a panel of the Federal Circuit reversed a finding by the International Trade Commission (ITC) that a design patent owned by Crocs, Inc. was not infringed by various respondents. In explaining its reasoning, the Court warned against reliance on detailed verbal descriptions of the claimed design, stating:
Saint-Gobain Wins $10.9 Million Verdict Against Xinyi
Alexandria, Va. – A jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio returned a unanimous verdict awarding $10.9 million in damages on November 10 to Saint-Gobain Autover in its patent infringement lawsuit against Chinese windshield manufacturer Xinyi Automobile Glass Company, Ltd. (Civil Action No. 06-cv-2781). In addition, the jury found that Xinyi's infringement of Saint-Gobain's patent windshield technology was willful.
Patents Post Grant (PPG) Law Blog
As counsel to some of the most well known technology innovators in the world, Oblon Spivak's Post Grant Patent Proceedings Practice Group is the recognized leader in post grant patent practice before the USPTO.
USPTO Changes RCE Examination Procedure
Under the new directive, RCE's will be processed like Divisional and Continuation applications. RCEs will be given priority over regular applications. However, there is no longer a 2 month deadline, so the RCE will no longer be acted on immediately.
