







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.
by Sana Tahir, Law Clerk and Andrew Ollis, Partner
by Andrew Ollis, Partner and Sana Tahir, Law Clerk





The PTAB designated three decisions as precedential yesterday (in addition to several in previous weeks). These cases illustrate that the PTO is in the process of designating precedential opinions on a number of issues, in line with revised Standard Operating Procedure 2 for designating precedential and informative decisions.
Philippe wrote an article entitled "Virginia Tech's Innovation Campus to Spawn New Patent Ecosystem in Northern Virginia," this will be appearing in the April 2019 edition of Virginia Lawyer Magazine.
Virginia Lawyer Magazine
Philippe's article "As the Climate for U.S. Patents Turns Brighter, Time to Invest," from IPWatchdog is republished in Attorney at Law magazine.
Attorney at Law
Robert Tarcu has an article featured in IPWatchdog entitled "How the EPO and USPTO Guidance Will Shape the Examination of Artificial Intelligence Inventions."
IP Watchdog
Brian Darville was featured in the Westlaw Journal IP in an expert interview on the Google v. Oracle case.
Westlaw Journal IP
