Headquartered within steps of the USPTO with an affiliate office in Tokyo, Oblon is one of the largest law firms in the United States focused exclusively on intellectual property law.
1968
Norman Oblon with Stanley Fisher and Marvin Spivak launched what was to become Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP, one of the nation's leading full-service intellectual property law firms.
Outside the US, we service companies based in Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and farther corners of the world. Our culturally aware attorneys speak many languages, including Japanese, French, German, Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Chinese.
Oblon's professionals provide industry-leading IP legal services to many of the world's most admired innovators and brands.
From the minute you walk through our doors, you'll become a valuable part of a team that fosters a culture of innovation, client service and collegiality.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued final rules implementing the inventor's oath or declaration provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) on August 14, 2012.
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Beginning January 2015, the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) will begin providing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) with registered trademark gazettes from January 2000 going forward. It is expected that the addition of Japanese pending and registered marks will facilitate global branding strategies.
The database, called the Global Brand Database, was started in February 2013 and is the world’s largest database of trademark registrations and applications. It is possible to search design or image marks as well as word marks. As of May 2014, a new image retrieval function was added, allowing users to input image files to search for marks with similar features.
The database is free of charge and includes trademark registrations and applications provided by sixteen participating trademark offices. The current participants include the U.S., Australia, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, the Philippines, Denmark, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Cambodia, Estonia, UAE, Oman and Algeria.