• October 28, 2010 | National Law Journal

    PTO, EPO Team Up on Classification System

    The latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office innovation is a deal to work with the European Patent Office on a joint patent classification system aligned with global standards. In an Oc

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  • May 15, 2008 | The Recorder

    Government Targets Individuals for FCPA Violations

    By entering a plea last week for his role in bribing a British defense official, Martin Self joined a growing line of individual defendants awaiting sentencing in one of the Justice Department's ma

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  • December 17, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Let the PTO Pay Its Own Way

    During the past few years, high-profile debates over broader patent policy issues in Congress and regulatory reforms proposed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have drowned out a critical iss

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  • October 10, 2011 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS (Birmingham, Ala.): Angela Holt joins the firm's intellectual property practi

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  • February 22, 2010 | The Recorder

    Ioana Petrou, U.S. attorney's office

    Persistence paid off in 2009 for Ioana Petrou. In a year of high-profile acquittals in the white collar bar, the San Francisco assistant U.S. attorney's dogged pursuit of executives at Inter

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  • February 13, 2006 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOCarroll, Burdick & McDonough has elevated Gregg Adam and Raymond Tittmann to partner.Adam, who practices in the public sector labor

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  • May 25, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Fed. Circuit Rules Against Tessera in Patent Dispute

    An appeals court has affirmed an International Trade Commission ruling saying that Elpida Memory Inc., Acer Inc., Smart Modular Technologies Inc. and several other technology companies did not infr

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  • July 12, 2010 | The Recorder

    Justices See No Age Bias In Lawyer's Suit

    SAN FRANCISCO — David Reeves was steamed when he wasn't chosen for a position as a staff attorney with Fairfield-based MV Transportation Inc. As a lawyer who had handled more than

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  • June 5, 2007 | The Recorder

    Howrey Stuck in Conflict Fight

    A company called Friskit is asking a federal judge to boot Howrey from a big-ticket patent dispute, saying the firm learned its secrets and then agreed to represent its rival. Friskit Inc. i

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  • May 2, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Patent lawyers prep for new patent rule

    IN A MAJOR patent law development, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday adopted a new, flexible standard that will make it easier for patents to be denied or challenged on the grounds that the in

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