News

November, 19th, 2019

Categories: Blog, News Tags: litigation, trademark, whipgroup

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has again sided with WHIPgroup and its client Hybrid Athletics in denying Hylete, Inc.’s petition to rehear the Court’s previous ruling in Hybrid Athletics’ favor. In a precedential opinion [Read More…]

November, 7th, 2019

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, whipgroup

WHIPgroup obtained a successful outcome for its client in which all rejections were reversed by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.  The claimed invention concerns a graphical user interface of a process control system used [Read More…]

October, 24th, 2019

Categories: Blog, News Tags: whipgroup

Marko is visiting WHIPgroup for a month to get profound insight in US patent prosecution and litigation and to also share information about European patent law. Marko has a Masters degree in electrical engineering and [Read More…]

October, 17th, 2019

Categories: Blog, News Tags: ITC, patent, whipgroup

WHIPgroup successfully defended summary judgment for a patent infringement case before the US International Trade Commission. The Respondents filed a motion for summary judgment of non-infringement based on their proposed claim construction of the term [Read More…]

October, 15th, 2019

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup

WHIPgroup successfully appealed rejections of a patent application directed to a surgical system.  The system includes a hollow shaft and a shaft-type instrument that is secured within the hollow shaft in a manner to provide [Read More…]

October, 15th, 2019

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup

The invention is directed to a trocar assembly for minimally invasive surgery. The application received a final office action rejecting all claims for being anticipated by three different references. WHIPgroup filed an Appeal and argued [Read More…]

October, 4th, 2019

Categories: Blog, News Tags: chemical, startup, whipgroup

New Haven-based online pharmacy Valisure’s CEO David Light spoke at the June 18 session of the WHIPgroup Tech Entrepreneur Meetup at our Stamford offices. David and Valisure are in the news this week. They are [Read More…]

October, 3rd, 2019

Categories: Blog, News Tags: anticounterfeiting, injunction, litigation, trademark, whipgroup

The Defendants in this case were featuring NETZSCH’s trademarks to offer substantially similar goods for sale at trade shows in the United States, Europe and Asia.  As part of the Permanent Injunction, the Defendants have [Read More…]

September, 23rd, 2019

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, PTAB, whipgroup

WHIPgroup successfully convinced the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that all outstanding novelty and obviousness rejections asserted against its client’s patent application should be reversed.  The claimed invention relates to a medical instrument with [Read More…]