Klarquist has been ranked in the ‘gold tier’ of top trademark law firms in Oregon in the 2020 edition of World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals. Attorneys Kevin Hayes and Ramon Klitzke each received individual recommendations in the Oregon category, and Lisa Caldwell of Klarquist’s Santa Rosa office was honored in […]
The U.S. Supreme Court today denied five petitions for certiorari asking the Court to again revisit the issue of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. One petition sought review of the win by Klarquist client, Operation Technology, Inc. dba ETAP, invalidating 138 claims in four patents for invalidity under section 101. See Klarquist News […]
Klarquist is pleased to welcome Johanna Schwartz, Ph.D. and Ethan McGrath to the firm’s partnership effective January 2020. Johanna Schwartz, Ph.D. joined Klarquist as a summer associate and technical consultant in 2010, before becoming a full-time associate in 2012. As a member of the firm’s chemical patent prosecution group, Johanna’s practice focuses on preparing and prosecuting […]
Klarquist filed an Amicus Curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 19, on behalf of the High Tech Inventors Alliance (whose members include Adobe, Amazon.com, Cisco, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce), supporting Intel’s certiorari petition asking the Court to end a decades-long divide at the Federal Circuit over perhaps the most consequential […]
The Federal Circuit affirmed Klarquist’s prior win in the district court for client LinkedIn in a decision dated November 12, 2019. The district court had held that claims of the asserted patent are ineligible under 35 U.S.C. §101, because the claims are directed to the abstract idea of facilitating a cross-marketing relationship and the claims […]
We are pleased to announce that Klarquist has been named to the 2020 “Best Law Firms” list by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers. Klarquist was recognized in Tier 1 for the following practice areas in the Portland, Oregon region: Litigation – Intellectual Property Litigation – Patent Patent Law Trademark Law Best Lawyers also independently […]
American Express Company prevailed over Signature Systems, LLC before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in a covered business method review proceeding involving a reward point conversion and redemption server system. American Express argued that Signature Systems’ patent was not eligible for patenting because it claimed generic and conventional computer functionality to perform the abstract […]
In a decision dated October 11, 2019 by Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in the Northern District of California, the Court ordered Big Baboon, Inc. to pay $189,675.70 in attorney fees and costs to Klarquist client SAP America, Inc. (“SAP”). Earlier in 2019, Judge Gilliam granted SAP summary judgment that the asserted patent asserted was […]
Klarquist patent agent Jie Lian was awarded the prestigious Jan Jancin Award in recognition of his leadership in intellectual property law, professionalism, and commitment to the field. The Jan Jancin Award recipient is selected annually by a joint committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation (AIPLEF), the Intellectual Property Law Section of the American […]
On August 22, 2019, Chief District Judge Michael W. Mosman, United States District Court for the District of Oregon, granted summary judgment declaring indefinite (and thus invalid) all remaining patent claims of two patents asserted against DexCom, Inc., by WaveForm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of AgaMatrix, Inc. (Salem, NH). The Court’s ruling ended WaveForm’s lawsuit […]