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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A recurrent situation is that the owner of a patent or an application becomes aware of the existence of an application that it believes to interfere with its own patent or application, which application is owned by another company, after the other company’s application has been allowed. At that point the first company can, of course, file a 37 CFR 1.604 request for an interference with the target application.3 (If the first company owns a patent rather than an application, it will have to file an application to reissue that patent before or concurrently with its 37 CFR 1.604 request, but that is not a problem.) However, that request is extremely unlikely to lead to the immediate declaration of the desired interference unless the first company can get the target application withdrawn from issue.