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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In a recent Law360 article, Oblon, Spivak's Richard Kelly is quoted regarding the Supreme Court's decision to hear more intellectual property cases in the upcoming term: Golan v. Holder, Mayo v. Prometheus Laboratories, Kappos v. Hyatt and Caraco v. Novo Nordisk.
According to Mr. Kelly, more IP cases have received grants of certiorari Since Chief Justice John Roberts' arrival at the Supreme Court in 2005. Mr. Kelly commented that the Supreme Court has recognized that while most cases get to it based on conflicting opinions between circuit courts, patent rulings cannot result in a split because they are all heard by the Federal Circuit. Mr. Kelly also said that what Chief Justice Roberts is saying is that the Supreme Court has given the Federal Circuit a free pass since 1982, and maybe it needs a closer look as patents and IP become more important to the country.
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