Rob Maier

Nov 26, 2024 | bakerbotts.com | Rob Maier |Catherine Nyarady |Crystal Parker

Who Got The Work Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct.

Nov 26, 2024 | law.com | Rob Maier

A subject of extensive debate within the U.S. patent system has been the classification of “patent trolls”—most widely defined as individuals or companies that acquire patents solely for the purpose of assertion, often in cases without any merit, but which leverage the high cost of patent litigation defense to force small settlements.

Sep 24, 2024 | bakerbotts.com | Rob Maier |Alex Anteau |Catherine Nyarady |Crystal Parker

Who Got The Work Burr & Forman partner Garry K. Grooms has entered an appearance for 4M Acquisitions and Wallace D. Tweden in a pending environmental lawsuit. The action, filed July 22 in Tennessee Middle District Court by the McKellar Law Group and Mark E.

Sep 24, 2024 | law.com | Rob Maier

Since its enactment under the 2011 America Invents Act (AIA), inter partes review (IPR) has remained a pivotal tool for challenging the validity of patents. IPR was introduced under the AIA’s initiative to improve the quality of the patent system and reduce the cost of challenging and invalidating bad patents.

Jul 23, 2024 | law.com | Rob Maier

A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has changed the standard approach to evaluating questions of patent validity—in particular, the question of whether a patented design is obvious—for design patents. Following the principles of the less rigid approach to evaluating obviousness for utility patents in the Supreme Court’s decision in KSR International v. Teleflex, the Federal Circuit has now extended those broad-view principles to design patents.