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Our Patent Litigation Practice is one of the country’s most active and highly regarded. Our seasoned patent litigators bring extensive courtroom experience to every matter we handle. According to Lex Machina, we are among the top three national patent defense firms in the country for number of appearances and cases filed, and we also were the top national defense firm for number of patent trials in the last five years (2018–2022).
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Winston’s Intellectual Property (IP) Practice is one of the most active and highly regarded in the United States per Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation US, and Best Law Firms®, among other ranking organizations. Our team features some of the country’s best IP lawyers, attorneys with the technical abilities to litigate and try highly complex IP disputes, and technical lawyers who provide critical advisory services.
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|April 29, 2024
Winston advised the partners of BCF Life Sciences Group in its sale to Sparkfood
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|April 2, 2024
Winston Represented Integrated Openings Solutions in its Acquisition of Atlass Hardware
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2024 Health Care & Life Sciences Summit
Winston & Strawn is pleased to host our Annual Health Care & Life Sciences Summit on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, both virtually and in person in our Chicago office.
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|May 15, 2024
Winston & Strawn Sponsors EF Hutton Annual Global Conference
Winston & Strawn is sponsoring the EF Hutton Annual Global Conference, which will feature innovative public and private companies from multiple industries in a close-knit, personalized setting. Instead of general presentations, the event adopts a one-on-one format. Key executives from public and private companies will share their distinctive stories with a diverse audience consisting of institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, corporate clients, and select press members.
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|May 13, 2024
Winston & Strawn Sponsors SFNet’s International Lending Conference 2024
Winston & Strawn is proud to once again sponsor the Secured Finance Network’s International Lending Conference which takes place from May 13-15, 2024, in London. The event brings together leading players on the international lending scheme and will address issues around private equity, private debt, syndications, restructurings, technology in ABL, and more.
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What Is the Patent Trial and Appeal Board?
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is a tribunal within U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The PTAB oversees trial proceedings, namely: inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review (PGR), covered business method (CBM) review, and derivation proceedings. The Board also hears appeals from adverse patentability decisions by patent examiners in original applications, reissues, and reexaminations. And, while phasing out since the passage of the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, the PTAB is also responsible for deciding interferences. The PTAB was previously referred to as the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and was renamed by the AIA.
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What Is Trademark Infringement?
Trademark infringement is defined as the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark. This use can be in connection with goods or services and may lead to confusion, deception, or a misunderstanding about the actual company a product or service came from. Trademark owners can take legal action if they believe their marks are being infringed. If infringement of a trademark is proven, a court order can prevent a defendant from using the mark, and the owner may be awarded monetary relief.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office refers to a trade secret as a type of intellectual property. This definition of trade secret is in reference to the business ownership of a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process that provides a competitive edge. As a member of the World Trade Organization, the U.S. government has a responsibility to protect trade secrets. The passage of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) also increased trade secret protection. Under the DTSA, an individual or organization may be found liable in a civil case for the misappropriation of trade secrets.