April, 24th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: CBM, IPR, litigation, patent, precedential, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup
By Dov Hirsch Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued two important patent related decisions regarding Inter Partes Reviews (“IPR”) under the America Invent Act. In Oil States Energy Services, LLC V. Greene’s Energy Group, [Read More…]
April, 23rd, 2018
Categories: Blog, News Tags: 101, patent, precedential, USPTO, whipgroup
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a guidance memo implementing the recent holding of the Federal Circuit in Berkheimer v. HP, Inc. The USPTO Memorandum clarifies the inquiry into whether a claim limitation represents well-understood, routine, [Read More…]
April, 18th, 2018
Categories: Blog, News Tags: litigation, whipgroup
WHIPgroup has filed an unfair competition and false advertising lawsuit under the Federal Lanham Act and the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practice Act on behalf of its client Verilux, Inc. in the United States District Court [Read More…]
April, 17th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: branding, litigation, trademark
By Natasha Rodriguez Trademarks can be the cheesy glue that connects a business with its brand in a consumer’s mind. A trademark is a source identifier that can include “any word, name, symbol, or device, or [Read More…]
April, 12th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: 101, CAFC, chemical, computer, litigation, patent, software, startup, USPTO, whipgroup
By Wesley W. Whitmyer, Jr. Motions to Dismiss on grounds that patents fail to claim patent-eligible subject matter, so called 101 or Alice Motions, have proliferated like dandelions in spring. It’s the defense du jour for alleged infringers lacking prior [Read More…]
April, 6th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: 101, computer, patent, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup continues its success in reversing rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 101 before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Claims for a method of identifying a fault condition in an electrical machine were rejected [Read More…]
March, 19th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: IPR, patent, PTAB, whipgroup
WHIPgroup attorney Robert Keeler was recently interviewed and quoted in a Law360 article regarding motions to exclude evidence in IPR proceedings. Confronted with the question of why litigants continue to file motions to exclude despite low chances [Read More…]
March, 9th, 2018
Categories: Blog, News Tags: whipgroup
WHIPgroup is excited to announce that Bill Birks has joined the firm as a law clerk. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, Bill worked as an engineer [Read More…]
February, 14th, 2018
Categories: Blog, News Tags: branding, trademark, whipgroup
After the close of the opposition period, WHIPgroup has successfully been granted protection in the European Union for its Whitmyer IP Group Design trademark. (more…)
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