Strategies for Aggressively Building a Patent Portfolio
Description Knobbe Martens Partner Ron Schoenbaum will host an hour-long seminar on September 29 at Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA. He will cover the following topics: How patent rights...
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Navigating 101 Eligibility - Waypoints from the Federal Circuit
“As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water….'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way...
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Federal Circuit emphasizing “how” over “what.” But is that really enough?
TDE Petroleum Data Solutions, Inc. v AKM Enterprise, Inc. is one of several recent Federal Circuit cases concluding that pure data processing claims—that is, claims directed to merely collecting,...
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Post-Prosecution Pilot Program: File yours while you still can
*/During its August Patent Quality Chat, the USPTO discussed the recently launched Patent Prosecution Pilot Program (P3). The P3 program is a hybrid of the After-final Consideration Pilot (AFCP 2.0),...
View ArticleKnobbe Martens and Anderson Mori Tomotsune Present: Recent Developments in US...
Description Join Knobbe Martens and Anderson Mori Tomotsune on Thursday, October 6, for a presentation on the latest developments in US patent litigation, in Tokyo, Japan. Anderson Mori Tomotsune...
View ArticleThe IP Defense Summit: Seattle 2016
Description The IP Defense Summit will take place on October 20, 2016, in Seattle, Washington. This a one-day only session will offer practical insights and learnings from front line experts focused on...
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Subject Matter Eligibility May Rest on Whether Software is “Technological”
Two recently issued decisions by federal courts highlight the uncertainty around claims to software-implemented inventions after the Supreme Court decision in Alice v. CLS Bank. Both decisions relate...
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Boilerplate – New Consideration in View of Patent Subject Matter
Can boilerplate language describing possible variations to an invention ever impact validity of a patent? Many software patents include standard “boilerplate” text describing many ways to implement an...
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Software Patent Eligibility: Preemption Gets Starring Role at the Federal...
“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” -- Sunset Boulevard (1950)The Supreme Court decision Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014) pronounced, in no uncertain terms, preemption...
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10 Strategies Startup Companies Need to Know to Aggressively Build a Patent...
Knobbe Martens Partner Ron Schoenbaum hosted an hour-long seminar on September 29 at Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA. He covered how patent rights are commonly lost and 10 strategies...
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Women Leaders in Tech Law 2016 - An Interview with Salima Merani, Ph.D.
Below is an excerpt from the interview published in The Recorder on September 28, 2016.Salima Merani, Ph.D. has been the lead intellectual property counsel on deals worth more than $2 billion in the...
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Seven Keys to Obtaining Meaningful Patent Protection for Your Mobile App |...
Partners William Shreve and Mark Lezama co-authored "Seven Keys to Obtaining Meaningful Patent Protection for Your Mobile App," which was published as the cover story in the October 2016 issue of App...
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Federal Circuit Relies on Robust Disclosure to Save Priority Date
On September 20, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming the summary judgement that Abbott’s U.S. Patent No. 5,344,915 (“the ’915 Patent”) was sufficiently...
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Daniel A. Kamkar
Attorney User daniel.kamkar@knobbe.comEducation University of Washington School of Law 2016 J.D.ChemistryUniversity of California - Santa Barbara 2012 Focused on Materials Chemistry and researched...
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David J. Grant
Attorney User david.grant@knobbe.comEducation University of North Carolina School of Law 2016 J.D.Electrical EngineeringNorth Carolina State University 2013 B.S.Honors summa cum laudeTelephone...
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David T. Kim
Attorney User david.t.kim@knobbe.comEducation Boston University 2016 J.D.Computer EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln 2008 B.S.Honors cum laudeTelephone 949-760-0404Office Location(s) Orange...
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Thomas E. Woodland
Attorney User thomas.woodland@knobbe.comEducation University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law 2016 J.D.Honors with Honors, Outstanding Achievement AwardPhysicsUniversity of Utah 2013 B.S.Telephone...
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Nathan J. Lee
Attorney User nathan.lee@knobbe.comEducation New York University School of Law 2016 J.D.ChemistryCornell University 2010 B.A.Honors cum laudeTelephone 949-760-0404Office Location(s) Orange...
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Ben H. Liu
Attorney User ben.liu@knobbe.comEducation UCLA School of Law 2016 J.D.Electrical EngineeringColumbia University 2007 M.S.Electrical Engineering & Computer ScienceUniversity of California - Berkeley...
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Justin E. Culbertson
Attorney User justin.culbertson@knobbe.comEducation University of Illinois College of Law 2016 Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition (2016), Law & Technology Scholars ProgramJ.D.Honors cum...
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