Klarquist Sparkman is pleased to announce that attorneys Ryan Andexer Farmer and Justin Foster have joined the firm. Mr. Farmer focuses his practice on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications. Prior to joining Klarquist, he practiced civil litigation and was a software engineer specializing in database development, GUIs, and technology related to business logic […]
Klarquist recently filed an amici brief on behalf of four of the country’s most prominent financial services member organizations in a Supreme Court case involving patent venue law that will be argued this spring. The organizations are asking the Supreme Court to follow its longstanding precedent limiting where patent suits may be filed and reject […]
Klarquist Partner Deakin Lauer was quoted in a January 26 Law360 article titled “AIA Estoppel Provision Not As Restricted As Many Expected.” The article discussed the America Invents Act’s inter partes review estoppel provision, which limits arguments to those seeking to invalidate patent claims that can be raised following PTAB review. The estoppel provision was […]
Klarquist has been ranked as one of the top trademark law firms in Oregon in the 2017 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 […]
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 […]