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Law360 Reports on NYIPLA Amicus Brief Submitted to SCOTUS By Firm Regarding USPTO’s Controversial Policy of Seeking Attorney Fees

Law360 Reports on NYIPLA Amicus Brief Submitted to SCOTUS By Firm Regarding USPTO’s Controversial Policy of Seeking Attorney Fees. (June 26, 2019, Law360) Law 360 Reported on amicus brief filing on behalf of NYIPLA by Partner Charles R. Macedo (as counsel of record and Co-Chair of the NYIPLA PTAB Committee) and Associate David Goldberg (as Co-Chair […]

ARE Privacy Law Alert:CALIFORNIA ADOPTS THE CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT OF 2018 RELATING TO THE USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION STARTING IN 2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), signed into law on June 28, 2018 and scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2020, focuses on consumers’ rights and control over their personal information as well as transparency requirements related to companies’ data practices. The full text of the Act can be found at:  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375.  With the […]

NYIPLA Endorses Patent Office Change to Phillips Claim Construction Standard

On May 9, 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced its proposed rulemaking in “Changes to the Claim Construction Standard for Interpreting Claims in Trial Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.” 83 Fed. Reg. 21,221 (May 9, 2018). The change would replace the broadest reasonable interpretation (BRI) standard for construing unexpired […]

Federal Circuit panel holds that Google’s use of Oracle’s Java API packages does not constitute fair use under US copyright law

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 8, 1 August 2018, Pages 605–607, doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy082 Abstract On 27 March 2018, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (‘Federal Circuit’) issued a ruling in Oracle America, Incv Google LLC, No 17–1118, that reversed the district court’s decision and […]

CONGRATULATIONS TO THREE FIRM PARTNERS NAMED IP STARS BY MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOR 2018

Managing IP IP Stars, June 24, 2018 Congratulations to Partners Daniel Ebenstein, Anthony Lo Cicero and Charles Macedo for being named IP Stars by Managing Intellectual Property again in 2018, including: Daniel Ebenstein and Charles Macedo being named Trade Mark Start and Patent Star; andAnthony Lo Cicero being named Patent Star. www.ipstars.com/firms/amster-rothstein-and-ebenstein/f-1563#/ip-stars