On September 29, 2014, in reexamination proceedings, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) affirmed the cancellation of all patent claims asserted against Klarquist’s client Microsoft in a separate case brought by NetView Technologies, Inc. NetView had accused Microsoft’s Excel Services of infringing U.S. Patent No. 7,251,776 […]
Slep-Tone Entertainment sued Canton Phoenix (a Chinese restaurant and bar in Tigard, Oregon) for trademark infringement. Slep-Tone alleged that Canton Phoenix possessed unauthorized copies of karaoke tracks that were originally engineered and produced by Slep-Tone. Slep-Tone alleged that the public performance of these karaoke tracks in karaoke shows (in which Slep-Tone’s trademark was briefly displayed […]
Klarquist is proud to have Ramon A. Klitzke II, Jeffrey S. Love, and John D. Vandenberg named to the 2014 Oregon Super Lawyers® list, and Carla Todenhagen and N. Andrew Sfeir selected for inclusion on the 2014 Oregon Rising Stars℠ list. The annual survey is published by Thomas Reuters. Surveys of attorneys throughout the country […]
On July 8, 2014, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment to Klarquist client Bravo Media, LLC (a division of NBC Universal Media LLC) that U.S. Patent No. 6,585,516 (the ‘516 patent) was invalid under 35 USC § 101 for failing to claim patent-eligible subject matter. The ‘516 […]
Klarquist is proud to have six attorneys named to the 2015 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 […]
On June 20, 2014, United States Circuit Judge William C. Bryson, sitting by designation in the Eastern District of Texas, granted summary judgment of non-infringement to end cases filed by TQP Development, LLC against Klarquist clients Intuit, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yelp. On July 23, 2014, Judge Bryson denied TQP’s motion for reconsideration and entered orders […]
In a unanimous decision, Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., 13-369 (June 2, 2014), the United States Supreme Court rejected the Federal Circuit’s “insolubly ambiguous” and “amenable to construction” test for enforcing the Patent Act’s requirement that patent claims particularly point out and distinctly claim the invention. Nautilus is represented by Klarquist attorneys James E. […]
Klarquist has received a Gold ranking from Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine in IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2014. Three Klarquist attorneys, Scott E. Davis, Jeffrey S. Love, and John D. Vandenberg, received individual recognition. Vandenberg received a Gold ranking. Davis and Love both received Silver rankings.
Klarquist has received a top tier ranking from Chambers USA for 2014. Klarquist is recognized as one of three leading intellectual property law firms in Oregon. In addition, three Klarquist attorneys, Scott E. Davis, William D. Noonan, M.D., and John D. Vandenberg, received individual recognition for intellectual property; Noonan and Vandenberg both received top tier […]
On January 10, 2014, the Supreme Court granted our client Nautilus’ petition for a writ of certiorari to address the Federal Circuit’s standard for determining whether patent claims are sufficiently definite under the statutory requirement of particular and distinct patent claiming. In 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Honorable […]