Posts Tagged: "IP Lawyers"

David Gold is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Litigation Departments, as well as the Restaurant & Hospitality Industry Group and is resident in the New Jersey office.

Haynes and Boone, LLP is proud to announce the promotion of three intellectual property attorneys to members within the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.  The new partners are Charlie Jones, Michael Parsons, and Clint Wilkins. 

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto announced that effective January 1, 2018, Christopher Gerson and Damien Dombrowski have been named partners of the firm.

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has expanded its national Intellectual Property Department with the addition of five new attorneys, Lucas Dahlin, Barrington Dyer, Nitin Gambhir, Teri H.P. Nguyen and Fabio Marino… Marino, a well-known IP trial lawyer with more than two decades of experience joins Polsinelli as Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Department, Chair of the IP Litigation Practice Group and will lead the firm’s Silicon Valley team as Office Managing Partner. Chambers USA calls him “one of the go-to names in the business” who is admired for “his courtroom presence and impressive skills as a patent litigator.”

Squire Patton Boggs welcomes Kerry Lee, the former Head of Group Intellectual Property of Walgreens Boots Alliance, as a partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology Practice in the Manchester and London offices. He has extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious IP enforcement and e-commerce matters in relation to trademark, design, patent, copyright, domain name and other IP matters across Europe, South East Asia and North America.

Antitrust agency communications, such as the EU Commission’s Horizontal Guidelines and the FTC/DOJ Licensing Guidelines underline that market power does not necessarily result from patent ownership as such. They contain, however, no specific language on standard-essential patents which are – if they are valid and truly standard-essential – different from other patents in that they must, by definition, be used in order to operate on the respective standard-based market. In Europe at least, it seems to be increasingly accepted that SEPs can convey market power but that they do not necessarily always do so. Advocate General Wathelet’s proposition (para. 57 et seq. of his opinion in the Huawei/ZTE case) to establish a rebuttable presumption that SEP ownership generates market power has not been taken up by the CJEU’s Huawei/ZTE-decision, probably because the parties already agreed that Huawei held a dominant position (para. 43). But court decisions from the UK (for instance Unwired Planet/Huawei, a summary of the case is provided here) and Germany (for instance LG Düsseldorf, 26.3.2015, 4b O 140/13) have taken a case-sensitive approach, looking not only at the leverage generated by a SEP but also at circumstances which may limit its holder’s power.

Cozen O’Connor Welcomes IP Litigator Hugh J. Marbury — a seasoned, first-chair IP litigator with experience representing domestic/international clients in contentious, bet the company financial and commercial disputes—has joined its Intellectual Property Department as a member. A former partner at DLA Piper, Marbury will serve as a lead trial lawyer overseeing IP and commercial litigation matters in Cozen O’Connor’s Washington D.C. office.

On November 6, 2017, Fish & Richardson announced that Brian M. Gaff has joined the firm’s Boston office as a principal in its Litigation Group, where he will continue to focus his practice on complex patent litigation. Previously, Mr. Gaff was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery.

Leason Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that patent attorneys Safet Metjahic and Dr. Paul M. Zagar have joined the firm as Partners and Lauren Beth Emerson, a trademark and copyright attorney, has joined as Counsel.

Fish & Richardson announced that Jayme Partridge has joined the firm’s Houston office as a principal in its Litigation Group, where she will continue to focus her practice on complex intellectual property litigation. Previously, Partridge was a partner at Patterson + Sheridan. She also spent two years as in-house litigation counsel for ExxonMobil and worked as a mechanical engineer for six years before law school.

Fish & Richardson is pleased to announce that Katherine (Katie) Prescott has returned to the firm’s Silicon Valley office as of counsel. Prescott is a patent and trade secret trial lawyer, has a background in civil and environmental engineering, as well as more than 15 years of experience protecting and defending clients.

Dentons, the global law firm, welcomes two more partners to its award-winning Intellectual Property and Technology practice. Randy Omid and Michael Swett join the firm’s San Francisco office. They join shortly after the recent addition of three intellectual property partner laterals, Peter Yim, Brian Ho and Christopher Eide.  Omid and Swett will help lead a team of 16 associates and patent agents/analysts, who also recently joined Dentons.

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is growing a differentiating advisory service that closely links patent and product development strategies through the addition of Marc Adler. Formerly assistant general counsel and chief IP counsel at Rohm & Haas—a specialty chemicals manufacturer acquired by Dow Chemical—Adler helps businesses address competitive and market forces through legal actions, business partnerships and effective patent and trade secret management.  

The specialized intellectual property law firm, Winterfeldt IP Group, opened its doors this week. The firm is led by Brian J. Winterfeldt, a veteran trademark and Internet attorney who most recently served as Co-Head of the Global Brand Management and Internet Practice at Mayer Brown. The firm offers highly focused, customized services to all organizations seeking advice and counseling in connection with their brand presence, from large global corporations to startups to local nonprofits.

A trio of experienced patent partners and their team are making the move to Womble Carlyle’s new Boston office.  Danielle Herritt, Deborah Vernon, Ph.D., and Cristin Cowles, Ph.D., and their team, join an established Womble department of more than 70 intellectual property attorneys in all areas of patent, trademark, copyright and related litigation and transactions.  The firm, a larger general practice business firm, was established more than 140 years ago.