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• Afghanistan Intellectual Property Law

  Feb 11 2011 There has been a change to the limitation period in which a party can commence a claim or raise an objection on registered trademarks in Afghanistan. Under the... more

• Pirates of Silicon Valley: Oracle awarded $1.3 billion in damages

  Nov 26 2010 Notsince Apple Computer, Inc. vs. Microsoft Corporation (1994) have we witnessed such wide implications in intellectual property law. In a resounding verdict that... more

• IP Law suit of the year - Oracle Vs. Google: Mofo and Boies, Schiller take lead roles

  Aug 19 2010 Google, the largest search engine in the world found itself on the defensive last week when Oracle one of the biggest business software development companies sued... more

• Wipro to provide LPO services to Microsoft

  Jun 21 2010 Wipro Technologies, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) division has entered into a partnership with Microsoft Corporation to provide global Legal Process Outsourcing... more

• India: Trademarks to be separated from IP office

  Jun 05 2010 The Intellectual Property (IP) office is planning to separate its trademark registry division out of the division which currently deals with patents, trademarks and... more

• Roche loses yet another Cipla battle

  May 07 2010 Swiss pharma firm, Hoffman-La Roche represented by IP lawyers Anand and Anand, have been dealt a major blow with the Chennai Patent Office deciding against its patent... more

• European Court of Justice: Google not liable for keyword trademark infringement

  Mar 24 2010 The European Court of Justice has sided with Google in a case concerning trademarks and AdWords. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Google is... more

• Kerala HC stays sale of Mont Blanc’s Mahatma Gandhi pens

  Feb 26 2010 Mont Blanc has agreed to stop selling the Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition pens until further orders of the Kerala High Court. Pravin Anand, Managing Partner of... more

• Eversheds raid forces Hammonds to close Munich base

  Feb 24 2010 Hammonds will close its Munich office following last year's departure of a five-lawyer team to Eversheds. Hammonds will enter into a three-year referral... more

• Baker Botts, Fish & Richardson, K&L Gates named top US IP law firms

  Feb 02 2010 Baker Botts, Fish & Richardson, and K&L Gates have been named top IP law firms in the "Who Protects Innovation in America" survey, which identifies law firms that... more

• Google's Library Project runs into more trouble; Indian Publishers' turn now

  Jan 31 2010 Google’s plan to digitize books through its ambitious ‘Library Project’, has hit a new roadblock with Indian publishers accusing the internet giant of copyright... more

• Arnold & Porter captures Milbank's London IP team

  Jan 08 2010 US law firm Arnold & Porter has strengthened up its intellectual property practice in London with the hire of a four-lawyer IP team, led by partner David Perkins, from... more

• Choate poaches IP lawyer from Boston rival Fish & Richardson

  Jan 05 2010 Boston-based Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP has hired Michael H. Bunis as a partner in its intellectual property litigation group. Bunis joins Choate from crosstown... more

• Chicago firm Brinks Hofer cuts seven lawyers & 19 staff

  Dec 09 2009 Chicago-based intellectual property firm Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione announced layoffs of about six percent of its total workforce. In addition to cutting seven... more

• Howrey expands Amsterdam office with De Brauw hire

  Nov 26 2009 Howrey has hired Intellectual property specialist Joris van Manen, a partner of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Van Manen who will join Howrey in January 2010 will... more

• Law firm sues rival over search-engine keywords

  Nov 23 2009 Habush Habush & Rottier, one of Wisconsin's largest law firms, is suing Cannon, Patrick Dunphy and their law firm in Milwaukee County Circuit Court alleging that... more

• Google plans to modify books settlement

  Sep 23 2009 Google wants to delay a hearing on its controversial digital books settlement so it can modify the deal to satisfy antitrust regulators. more

• EU court opinion: Google keywords don't violate trademark

  Sep 23 2009 Advocate General Poiares Maduro of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), European Union's top court, backed Google on Tuesday in a row with luxury goods maker LVMH over... more

• Hennigan Bennett represents Skype founders in eBay lawsuit

  Sep 18 2009 The founders of Skype are suing eBay for copyright infringement, a move that could block eBay's deal to sell a majority stake in Skype to a group of private investors... more

• Latham wins crucial patent suit for biotech client Prometheus

  Sep 18 2009 Latham & Watkins helped its client Prometheus Laboratories overturn a ruling concerning the patentability of the company's method to treat Crohn's disease and other... more

• Facebook and StudiVZ reach settlement in plagiarism dispute

  Sep 11 2009 Facebook and German social network operator StudiVZ have reached a settlement in the alleged plagiarism case, with the StudiVZ paying Facebook an undisclosed sum as... more

• McCurry Restaurant wins eight-year battle with McDonald’s

  Sep 09 2009 The world’s largest restaurant chain McDonald’s lost an attempt to stop a Kuala Lumpur eatery selling Indian food from using the name McCurry. more

• IP firm boutique Fish & Richardson to close Austin office

  Sep 01 2009 Boston-based intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson will shut its Austin, Texas, office and cut corporate transactional lawyers firmwide. Fish & Richardson... more

• Chadbourne to open second California office with Yahoo hire

  Aug 27 2009 Chadbourne & Parke plans to open a northern California office in either San Francisco or Silicon Valley. The New-York-based firm already hired Yahoo in-house IP... more

• Foley & Lardner sued for allegedly revealing trade secrets

  Aug 26 2009 Virginia-based patent holding SPH America has sued Foley & Lardner for allegedly revealing confidential information and for undermining the company's settlement... more

• Bird & Bird enters alliance with Chinese firm Xiang Kung

  Aug 25 2009 UK law firm Bird & Bird has formed an alliance with Beijing bases IP boutique Xiang Kung Law Firm, in a move to strengthen its contentious capabilities in China. In... more

• Weil Gotshal wins SINGULAIR patent dispute for Merck

  Aug 21 2009 The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has ruled in favor of pharmaceutical company Merck in a patent infringement suit against Teva Pharmaceuticals.... more

• Paul Hastings poaches Skadden patent star Jeffrey Randall

  Aug 11 2009 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has hired Jeffrey Randall, a star patent litigator from the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who is known... more

• Troutman Sanders hires Dreier IP group in New York

  Jul 23 2009 Troutman Sanders is expanding its New York office by hiring five intellectual property (IP) lawyers of the collapsed law firm Dreier LLP. more

• Cleary hires Allen & Overy IP partner Colin Pearson

  Jul 22 2009 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has made a rare hire in London, adding former Allen & Overy intellectual property partner Colin Pearson as a consultant of its City... more

• Howrey to aquire IP boutique Day Casebeer

  Jun 23 2009 Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder is in advanced talks to be acquired by 750 lawyers-firm Howrey with a deal likely to close soon. High-end intellectual property... more

• New Facebook usernames raise fears of cybersquatting

  Jun 12 2009 Starting this saturday, Facebook will allow its users to choose any "username". Lawyers advise trademark owners to register their trademarks with Facebook to prevent... more

• Sweden tries to collect $3.8m in damages from Pirate Bay

  May 14 2009 Swedish authorities are moving to collect the $3.8 million in damages the country's High Court has ordered the operators of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay to pay as... more

• Morgan & Finnegan fears mass walk-out to Locke Lord

  Jan 27 2009 US IP boutique Morgan & Finnegan may be facing dissolution as more than a dozen of its 17 partners jump ship to rival Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell. more

• K&L Gates Adds Commercial, IP Litigation Partners in Austin Office

  Oct 08 2008 Mary Schaerdel Dietz and Roderick (Rick) B. Williams join K&L Gates as partners in the firm’s Austin office. Dietz, a member of the commercial litigation practice,... more

• IP attorneys increasingly getting their own patents and suing

  Sep 11 2008 Various IP attorneys involved in patent hoarding lawsuits are seeing how lucrative it can be to just get a patent and sue -- and so they're eagerly jumping into the... more

• McDermott hires ex-Taylor Wessing chief Gary Moss

  Sep 05 2008 McDermott Will & Emery has poached Taylor Wessing’s IP partner Gary Moss who had been managing partner of UK firm Taylor Joynson Garrett before and throughout its... more

• DLA Piper loses IP Partner Andrew Dodd to Field Fisher

  Aug 29 2008 DLA Piper has been hit by the loss of an IT litigator less than a month after making five redundant in its technology, media and communications group. Partner... more

• Kirkland recruits Latham IP partner Steven Cherny in New York

  Aug 20 2008 Kirkland & Ellis has bolstered its intellectual property (IP) capabilities with the hire of a patent litigation partner Steven Cherny from US rival Latham & Watkins. more

• Heller Ehrman hires DLA Piper IP partner for London office

  Aug 04 2008 Heller Ehrman has recruited IP partner Richard Penfold from DLA Piper to boost its year-old London office as speculation over an impending merger with Baker & McKenzie... more

• Mediaset chooses Italian firms for €500M lawsuit against Google and YouTube

  Aug 01 2008 Italian publishing company Mediaset has hired local litigation firms Calleri Noviello & Morazzoni Sangalli and Studio Previti to represent it in a €500m lawsuit... more

• Wragge opens Munich IP base

  Aug 01 2008 Birmingham-based law firm Wragge & Co LLP is to open an IP litigation office in Munich by September, though it will maintain its relationship with German best friend... more

• Alston & Bird to Open in Silicon Valley With Akin Group

  Jul 29 2008 Just six months after King & Spalding launched in the Silicon Valley, another Atlanta-based firm, Alston & Bird, is set to open its doors in the Bay Area. A group of... more

• Ebay Wins Tiffany Trademark Case

  Jul 15 2008 eBay today won a landmark trademark case that had been filed against the company by Tiffany. The jewelery retailer had sued eBay in 2004, alleging that many of the... more

• Singing cowboy joins Orrick as IP partner

  Jul 02 2008 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe announced that it had hired the former head of Jones Day’s Los Angeles intellectual property group, Rob Dickerson as a partner.... more

• Morrison Foerster raids Sonnenschein for trio of IP partners

  Jun 25 2008 Morrison Foerster has hired a three-partner IP team from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal for its Palo Alto and Washington DC offices. Alexandria Hadjis and Kristen... more

• Baker & McKenzie vs 11-year old in Narnia IP row

  Jun 17 2008 A couple from Edinburgh is being threatened with a law suit by Baker & McKenzie over their son’s 11th birthday present. Gillian Ferguson and Richard Saville-Smith... more

• Intellectual property law goes well with science

  Jun 17 2008 Though experienced energy lawyers with portable business are widely courted, triple-crowned intellectual property lawyers — those with undergrad and doctorate degrees... more

• Philadelphia Law Firm Ballard Spahr Acquires Atlanta IP Boutique

  Jun 17 2008 In an expansion move, the Philadelphia law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll L.L.P. is set to announce its acquisition of an Atlanta-based intellectual... more

• Baker Botts opens Palo Alto office

  Jun 09 2008 Seeking to boost its intellectual property practice, Houston law firm Baker Botts LLP has opened a new office in Silicon Valley. Baker Botts has 800 lawyers in 12... more

• Howrey Loses $250 Million IP Verdict in East Texas

  Jun 01 2008 A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas gave a big win to hometown lawyer Sam Baxter of Dallas-based McKool Smith, awarding his client, Medtronic, $250 million... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf Boosts Silicon Valley Presence with IP and Biotech Team

  May 29 2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has announced that Barbara A. Caulfield, Michael J. Malecek and Peter E. Root are joining the firm as partners, while Dr. Stephen C. Holmes is... more

• Allen & Overy Hamburg partner Harte-Bavendamm sets up IP boutique

  May 22 2008 Henning Harte-Bavendamm, Allen & Overy IP and commercial partner in Hamburg, has set up his own boutique practice, taking three associates with him. He will open under... more

• Patent Associate at Dorsey & Whitney LLP?

  May 20 2008 Dorsey & Whitney LLP is seeking candidates with one to four years of experience to join the firm's Patent department in the Seattle office. Experience: Qualified... more

• Judge Slams Allen & Overy Over $10 Million Fee for Five Day Case

  Apr 21 2008 Allen & Overy (A&O) has been slammed by the High Court for racking up almost £5.2m in costs and spending the equivalent of nine man years for a five-day trial. Mr... more

• DLA Piper launches NY patent team with former Clifford Chance IP chief

  Apr 10 2008 DLA Piper has snared former Clifford Chance America IP head to lead its IP practice group in the New York office. Drew Wintringham, who joined the firm as partner on... more

• Howrey takes Simmons and Taylor Wessing IP partners

  Jan 13 2008 Howrey has boosted its London IP group with two new partners, taking Marjan Noor from Taylor Wessing and Paul Inman from Simmons & Simmons. The hires continue Howrey's... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf IP chief exits

  Jan 04 2008 The highly-rated head of IP at the Warsaw branch of Dewey & LeBoeuf has left the firm for a job in the Polish Government. Lukasz Redziniak departed from the firm at... more