Klarquist Sparkman is pleased to announce that attorney Sarah E. Jelsema has joined the firm. Sarah focuses her practice on litigation involving patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. She also does some patent prosecution. Prior to joining Klarquist, she was a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears appeals […]
Klarquist Sparkman, LLP was recognized as one of the nation’s “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News and Best Lawyers in its 2017 “Best Law Firms” survey. Klarquist received metropolitan first-tier rankings in the following practice areas: Litigation – Intellectual Property; Litigation – Patent; Patent Law; and Trademark Law. The rankings are based on an evaluation process […]
One facet of the § 101 patent-eligibility analysis looks at preemption. The preemption analysis goes back decades to Supreme Court jurisprudence and excludes from patentable subject matter a claim that recites an abstract idea that preempts substantially all uses of that idea in the claim’s technical field. This Amici brief, filed October 26, 2016, seeks […]
On October 17, in a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment granted by Judge Maxine M. Chesney, USDC, Northern District of California, invalidating under Section 101 claims of three Synopsys, Inc. patents. The claims are directed to “the abstract idea of: translating a functional description of a logic circuit into a hardware component […]
Klarquist recently filed an amici brief on behalf of four of the country’s most prominent financial services member organizations in support of a certiorari petition seeking Supreme Court review of patent venue law. The companies are asking the Supreme Court to follow its longstanding precedent limiting where patent suits may be filed and reject the […]
On October 11, the Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB decision finding Synopsys Inc. memory synthesis patent claims obvious. Synopsys had alleged infringement of the claims by Mentor Graphics Corporation, as part of a lawsuit filed late 2012 in N.D. Cal. The Court stayed that part of the case when the PTAB granted Mentor’s petition for […]
Klarquist Sparkman has been ranked among the Top Firms for Life Sciences Patents by Juristat, an intellectual property consulting firm. Klarquist ranked 4th nationwide for its success in obtaining patents for Life Science clients. Only 10 US firms were recognized, each of which had at least 100 patent applications that reached a final disposition in […]
Klarquist is pleased to be a founding member of the PTAB Bar Association. The PTAB Bar Association is a collaboration of about 45 law firms that is dedicated to preserving and promoting the highest professional and ethical standards among lawyers and stakeholders who appear before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was recently awarded the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s 2016 Patents For Humanity award for their work developing an improved meningitis vaccine production process. The patented technology has led to the MenAfriVac® vaccine, and more than 235 million people in Africa’s high-risk meningitis belt have been immunized […]
Klarquist is proud to celebrate its 75th anniversary today. Our firm was founded by solo practitioner, Elmer A. Buckhorn, who logged the firm’s first patent matter on August 26, 1941. By 1947, business had increased enough that a second partner, Orme Cheatham, joined the firm, and by the end of the 1950s the firm had five partners, […]