On February 29, 2016, Judge Robert L. Pitman of the Western District of Texas granted judgment on the pleadings to Klarquist client eBay, Inc., finding U.S. Patent No. 7,010,572 invalid under 35 USC § 101 for failing to claim patent-eligible subject matter. Judge Pitman held that the asserted claims failed the Supreme Court’s two-part Alice […]
Klarquist has been ranked as one of the top trademark law firms in Oregon in the 2016 edition of World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals. Lisa M. Caldwell, Ramon A. Klitzke II, and Richard J. Polley also received individual recognition for being top individuals in their practice. According to World Trademark Review, “Klarquist Sparkman […]
Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, one of the largest and oldest intellectual property law firms in the Pacific Northwest, is proud to announce it is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. The firm’s history began in 1941 with a solo practitioner, Elmer A. Buckhorn. His first year of part-time solo practice in 1941 brought a total of […]
This term, the Supreme Court of the United States will decide when trial judges may award increased damages in patent suits and the role of “willfulness” of infringement in that determination. Today, December 14, 2015, a group of three Amici Curiae—Mentor Graphics Corp., Microsoft Corp., and SAP America, Inc.—filed a brief making the following points. […]
Some 40% of patent suits this year have been filed in a single district where most of the defendants are neither incorporated nor have a place of business. Today, November 6, 2015, a diverse group of 24 Amici Curiae submitted a brief to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit supporting TC Heartland’s petition […]
On October 29, 2015, Klarquist co-sponsored a panel discussion on patents and patent litigation, in the first of EDAC’s new legal series. Klarquist litigator Salumeh Loesch moderated the panel, and John Vandenberg provided guidance on how to efficiently manage patent litigation. Other speakers included Sam Liccardo, Mayor of San Jose, and John Cabeca, director of the Silicon […]
Klarquist is proud to have six attorneys named to the 2016 Best Lawyers in America© list: Lisa M. Caldwell in the area of Trademark Law; James E. Geringer in the areas of IP Litigation, Patent Litigation, and Trademark Law; Ramon A. Klitzke II in the areas of Patent Law and Trademark Law; William D. Noonan, M.D. in the area […]
Klarquist is proud to have Ramon A. Klitzke II, Jeffrey S. Love, and John D. Vandenberg named to the 2015 Oregon Super Lawyers® list, and Carla Todenhagen, Philip Warrick, and N. Andrew Sfeir selected for inclusion on the 2015 Oregon Rising Stars℠ list. The annual survey is published by Thomas Reuters. Surveys of attorneys throughout […]
Klarquist today published a 145-page public version of our internal “Patent Defenses” patent litigation training document, available at www.patentdefenses.com and at www.patentdefenses.com. Patent Defenses includes a litigator’s analysis and organization of several hundred hyperlinked Supreme Court, Federal Circuit (mostly since 2004), CCPA, and BPAI/PTAB decisions on patent claim construction, patent infringement, willful infringement, patent invalidity, […]
Klarquist is the sole firm for Oregon to receive a Gold tier ranking from Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine in IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2015. Four Klarquist attorneys, Scott E. Davis, Jeffrey S. Love, William D. Noonan, M.D., and John D. Vandenberg, received individual recognition.