Klarquist attorneys, Brandon Johnson and Francisco Almeida, presented “Everyone Has a (Patent) Opinion” on March 9th, 2023. The presentation provided a high level overview of various types of patent opinions, including patentability, landscape, non-infringement, and invalidity. If you were unable to attend this presentation or would like to reference the materials, click to watch the […]
Today the Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB decision that Klarquist had obtained for clients Best Buy Co., Target Corporation, and Walmart, Inc. The PTAB had determined that all claims in a patent which had been asserted against Klarquist’s clients were unpatentable as obvious. The patent related to a system for purchasing in retail stores products […]
Yesterday, the Federal Circuit affirmed Klarquist’s prior IPR win at the PTAB for client Microsoft. In the underlying IPR, the PTAB agreed with Microsoft that the challenged claims, directed to a handheld device to wirelessly operate a camera of a mobile device, were unpatentable as obvious, and rejected an effort by the patent owner to […]
Klarquist partner, Robert Scotti, presented Section 102 in a CLE webinar on February 9th, 2023. This intermediate level presentation was a refresher of 35 USC 102. Additional new material covered On-Sale Bar, Public use, and Experimental use. All exceptions to 35 USC 102 were discussed using examples. Other topics include first to file, grace period, […]
Klarquist has been ranked in the ‘gold tier’ among top trademark law firms in Oregon in the 2023 edition of World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals. Partners Rob Cruzen, Kevin Hayes, and Sheree Rybak each received individual recognition in Oregon, and Lisa Caldwell of Klarquist’s Santa Rosa office was acknowledged in […]
Klarquist is pleased to announce that Roy Chamcharas has become a partner of the firm. Roy moved from Chicago to Portland to join Klarquist’s litigation group in 2019. He earned his J.D., with honors, from the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University […]
Klarquist represented the prevailing party, Nautilus, in the only U.S. Supreme Court decision interpreting Section 112 of the Patent Act. Today, Klarquist filed an Amici brief on behalf of two high technology industry associations in a second Supreme Court case involving Section 112, which likely will be argued this spring, Amgen v. Sanofi, No. 21-757. […]
Klarquist helped client Amazon.com win a mandamus order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit directing the district court to sever and transfer the case filed by Flygrip Inc. against Amazon.com from the Western District of Texas (Waco) to the District of Colorado. Plaintiff Flygrip sued Amazon.com in Waco, alleging patent infringement […]
Today, the Federal Circuit affirmed Klarquist’s prior CBM win at the PTAB for client American Express Company. There, the PTAB found all challenged claims of the asserted patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. §101, because the claims are directed to the abstract idea of transferring and exchanging reward points data while using only generic, conventional technology. […]
Klarquist scored a win at the Federal Circuit for client Microsoft, obtaining vacatur and remand of a PTAB final written decision in an IPR against adversary Uniloc. In that IPR, the PTAB had upheld all challenged claims upon finding that the cited prior art grounds failed to satisfy a comparison step recited in all challenged […]