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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On August 5, 2015, the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a non-final action in the reexamination of U.S. Design Patent No. 618,677, an iPhone-related design patent. The '677 patent is one of three Apple Inc. smartphone design patents that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has been ordered to pay $548 million for infringing.
The patent, which covers the rectangular shape and appearance of the iPhone, has been tentativily determined unpatentable based on four different prior art references. The USPTO has determined that the '677 patent is not entitled tot he filing date of earlier Apple design patents, which it had been mistakenly given during examination. The USPTO has determined that the '677 design is not supported by the earlier filings. As a result, more prior art can be used against the patent, including Apple's own designs.
The Oblon team has also successfully challenged another key iPhone-related design patent no. 618,688, which is of similar scope and was also asserted in the Samsung dispute at the International Trade Commission (ITC).