Klarquist News & Insights

Klarquist continues to support the community by providing low-income school children with necessary school supplies each fall. Klarquist participated in Portland’s Schoolhouse Supplies’ “Tools for Schools” sponsorship program. Schoolhouse Supplies is a local not-for-profit organization that supports school children and teachers throughout the year. Klarquist “adopted” Sitton Elementary School in North Portland, enabling Schoolhouse Supplies […]

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Klarquist Sparkman, LLP recorded a victory for its client Freightliner LLC by defeating a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by Dr. Frank T. Buckley, Jr. Dr. Buckley has further agreed to surrender his right to appeal. Dr. Buckley claimed the invention of a drag-reducing fairing for highway use on heavy duty trucks (U.S. Patent […]

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Klarquist Sparkman, LLP attorneys Robert C. Ryan and Ryan A. Heck, Ph.D., have been selected to teach two courses at the University of Nevada, Reno, College of Business Administration in the Masters of Business Administration program. Robert Ryan was named Adjunct Professor, and Ryan Heck was named Lecturer. The two courses focus on intellectual property […]

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Klarquist Sparkman, LLP is pleased to announce that its patent services contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been renewed for another seven years. The CDC chooses two firms for patent representation, and Klarquist is proud to have represented the CDC since 2000. Klarquist welcomes the opportunity to continue to provide […]

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On May 22, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, the Honorable Manuel L. Real, presiding, awarded Microsoft $8,612,000 in attorneys’ fees against Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) of Tucson, Arizona. After a trial in August 2005, the Court found that three of six patents asserted by RCT were “unenforceable due to the […]

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Klarquist Sparkman, LLP scored another victory for its client Microsoft Corporation. On November 23, 2005, the District of Arizona, the Honorable Manuel L. Real, presiding, ruled that three of the six patents asserted by Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) are unenforceable due to inequitable conduct by the patent applicants. The Court had previously ruled in April […]

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Klarquist has helped its longstanding client Microsoft Corporation score another victory on appeal in a patent infringement lawsuit relating to the downloading and streaming of music and video over the Internet. The lawsuit began in 2001, when Network Commerce, Inc., filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington, accusing Microsoft of infringing United […]

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On August 2, 2005, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Klarquist’s client CollegeNET, Inc., reinstating a jury verdict that CollegeNET’s competitor, ApplyYourself, Inc., infringed CollegeNET’s U.S. Patent No. 6,460,042. The court also affirmed the verdict of infringement of CollegeNET’s U.S. Patent No. 6,345,278. CollegeNET prevailed in a September […]

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