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.
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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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Alexandria, Va. – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has vacated and remanded on the issue of obviousness in the high profile patent infringement case CSIRO v. Buffalo in the court’s Sept. 19, 2008 opinion. The patent at issue is U.S. Patent No. 5,487,069 and concerns Wi-Fi technology relating to the transmission of wireless signals.
Oblon Spivak, on behalf of client Buffalo Inc. and its subsidiary Buffalo Technology (USA) Inc., appealed decisions of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, granting summary judgment and entering a permanent injunction in favor of Australian science agency CSIRO. The district court’s decisions marked the first time that a court had entered a permanent injunction in favor of a non-practicing entity since the Supreme Court’s landmark eBay decision. Oblon Spivak, stepping in as appellate counsel, obtained a remand for Buffalo.
“We are very pleased that Buffalo will now have an opportunity to defend its case at trial,” said Richard D. Kelly, appellate counsel for Buffalo and senior partner with Oblon Spivak. “Because of the remand on obviousness, the court never had to reach the issue of the permanent injunction.” Mr. Kelly argued the appeal for Buffalo and wrote the brief with Frank J. West and Takahiro Miura.
Assisting clients for 40 years, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., in Alexandria, Va., is one of the largest intellectual property specialty firms in the United States. The firm provides a full range of intellectual property services, including litigation matters in all courts.
CONTACT Richard Kelly 703-412-6241 rkelly@oblon.com