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IP Due Diligence: Issues in M&A Transactions

Traverse Legal Blog

A main focus in most M&A transactions involves conducting intellectual property (IP) due diligence, including patent due diligence in order to properly assess risk involved in the potential transaction. Are there any active litigation and/or administrative proceedings (e.g. post-grant review, oppositions, etc.)

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Fish & Richardson Attorneys Megan Chacon and Crystal Culhane Named 2021 Women of Influence in Law by the San Diego Business Journal

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Megan Chacon focuses her practice on complex patent litigation across a wide range of technologies. She currently represents Gilead Sciences, one of the largest and most well-known biotechnology companies in the world, in multiple patent litigation matters. Crystal Culhane draws upon her Ph.D.

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Fish Attorneys Named Finalists for San Diego Business Journal “Leaders in Law” Award

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

In addition to his litigation work, Amon serves as vice managing principal and pro bono coordinator of Fish’s San Diego office. has established herself as a go-to attorney for pharmaceutical, chemistry, biotechnology, and nanotechnology clients who depend on her to help bring their life-saving drugs and inventions to market.

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Difference Between Prior Art Search, Invalidation Search And FTO Search

Intepat

? One of the most common reasons an invention is rejected from being protected is the existence of prior art, or that the said invention is not novel and has already been, in fact, for some time now. Keywords: This will help narrow down the search while sticking to the invention’s key elements. ?

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Patent Assertion Entities: A Boon or a Bane?

Kashishipr

The maximum number of cases are witnessed in the software industry wherein statistics project that as many as 74 percent of the patents issued are being litigated. Patent trolls come into being without there being any intention of making use or manufacturing a said invention to provide them as a product or service for public consumption.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates Its Most Diverse Principal Class Ever

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

The new principals in the firm’s Litigation Group are Matthew Colvin (Dallas); Kelly Allenspach Del Dotto (Delaware); Nitika Gupta Fiorella (Delaware); Conrad A. Matthew Colvin represents clients in complex intellectual property litigation, as well as commercial litigation and Hatch-Waxman matters. Gosen (Twin Cities); Andrew G.

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A Seller’s Guide to Navigating Intellectual Property Law on Amazon

LexBlog IP

Patents A patent permits the owner to exclude others from making, using, offering to sell, selling, or importing the invention of the patent. This can lead to expensive “false marketing” litigation. This process is relatively fast and inexpensive, especially compared to a patent litigation proceeding in court.