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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On Tuesday, April 28, 2020, the USPTO announced further extensions to "the time to file certain patent and trademark-related documents and to pay certain required fees, which otherwise would have been due between March 27 and May 31, to June 1, 2020". Particularly, among other details available here, the USPTO announced
Oblon is currently waiving its fee for filing a provisional patent application for an invention directly related to address the COVID-19 pandemic. "We are proud to promote our clients' efforts in addressing this global health crisis. A number of our clients have taken advantage of this offering, and we hope that their scientific and technological developments will lead to a safer world," said Managing Partner Philippe Signore, Ph.D.
Gerry would on a number of occasions confer with me concerning his expert witnessing. During our discussions, we would sometimes revert to our common experience many years ago of being young and ambitious patent attorneys long before the creation of the Federal Circuit, patent trolls, the America Invents Act and even before touch tone dialing, personal (rather than main frame) computers, mobile phones (which were not in the least small, convenient or "smart") and, of course, even before the difficult-to-imagine-as-not-being-present internet.
In order to cooperate in the fight against COVID-19, Oblon has done its part and for the first time in the history of the company, a large portion of our staff and professionals are teleworking full-time with a small team working on-site. This has enabled us to take care of our employees and at the same time seamlessly support our clients. Together, while keeping our social distance, we will overcome this new challenge.