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07/03/2008  Morrison & Foerster's Patent Litigation Practice Soars in Annual Ranking
IP Law & Business ranks Morrison & Foerster as the second Most Active Patent Litigation firm in the US District Courts
04/10/2008  Six Morrison & Foerster Lawyers Named to Top IP Lawyer Lists
The Daily Journal's first-ever listing of California’s Top Intellectual Property Lawyers
03/31/2008  Four Morrison & Foerster Litigators Named California Lawyers of the Year
Jim Bennett, Jordan Eth, and Terri Garland honored in Securities, Rachel Krevans honored in Intellectual Property
03/19/2008  How the Eastern District Was Won: Taming Texas' Hotbed of Patent Litigation
The American Lawyer features Morrison & Foerster's Rachel Krevans
01/04/2008  Double Vision: The American Lawyer Honors Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Department
Intellectual property litigation and overall litigation practice receive elite honors
11/01/2007  USPTO Enjoined from Enforcing New Rules
08/27/2007  Changes to Patent Practice: The USPTO’s New Rules to Shorten Patent Prosecution Time
08/21/2007  In re Seagate Technology, LLC: The Federal Circuit Abolishes the Duty of Due Care in Willfulness Cases
07/27/2007  Patent Reform Act of 2007
06/08/2007  Morrison & Foerster Team Obtains Defendant’s Jury Verdict in Eastern District of Texas
05/22/2007  Patent Win for EchoStar Communications – Rare Finding of Patent Invalidity in Eastern District of Texas
Morrison & Foerster successfully defends EchoStar in suit over origins of DVR technology.
03/27/2007  SanDisk v. STMicroelectronics:  The Federal Circuit Announces a New Test for Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction
01/29/2007  In re Seagate Technology, LLC: The Federal Circuit Will Address Significant Issues Regarding Willful Infringement En Banc
01/10/2007  The Supreme Court Decides that a Patent Licensee Need Not Breach the License Before Challenging the Licensed Patent
05/17/2006  Supreme Court Decides That Patent Owners Are Not Entitled to Automatic Injunction on a Finding of Infringement
04/17/2006  Activities that Occur Outside the U.S. May Result in Liability for Infringement of a U.S. Patent: AT&T Corp. v. Microsoft Corporation, 414 F.3d 1366 (Fed. Cir. 2005)
03/30/2006  Supreme Court to Decide Whether Non-Practicing Patent Owners Are Entitled to Injunctive Relief
03/01/2006  Supreme Court Strikes Down Presumption of Illegality for Tying Arrangements Involving a Patented Product
02/27/2006  The Supreme Court to Decide Whether Licensees in Good Standing Are Permitted to Challenge Licensed Patents
12/20/2005  AG Opinions in Roche Nederland and GAT would impede multi-jurisdiction patent infringement litigation in the EU
09/27/2005  Federal Circuit Rejects Patent Misuse Challenge to Licensor's Bundling of Essential and Non-Essential Patents that Read on Industry Standard
09/27/2005  Federal Circuit Decision Serves as Warning for Trademark Owners Who Fail to Control Their Distributors
07/14/2005  Merck v. Integra: The Supreme Court Holds That the § 271(e)(1) Safe Harbor Extends to Preclinical Studies
Intellectual Property Newsletter, Volume 1, No. 2
06/30/2005  When English is Best—Pitfalls of Filing Non-English International Patent Applications
06/02/2005  SmithKline: How the Expanding Inherent Anticipation Doctrine Affects Chemical Patents
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Decided: April 8, 2005
05/18/2005  Open Source Software: Assessing The IP Risks
12/22/2004  Verdict Against Makers of Blackberry® Mostly Upheld
10/06/2004  Amici Curiae to Federal Circuit: Patent Specification and Prosecution History, Rather than Dictionaries, Should Serve as the Primary Source for Claim Interpretation
09/17/2004  Knorr-Bremse: The Federal Circuit Overrules Its Precedent And Reshapes Willfulness
01/28/2004  Burying the "Equity Stake" Theory of Patent Damages
11/12/2003  Amici Curiae to Federal Circuit: Revise the Law on Advice of Counsel and Patent Willfulness
11/11/2003  Failure to Disclose the Rejection of Substantially Similar Claims in a Co-Pending Application May Render a Patent Unenforceable
09/30/2003  Federal Circuit to Form New Opinion on Opinion Letters?
02/04/2003  Federal Circuit Clarifies Written Description Requirements for Certain Biological Materials and Finds a Rebuttable Presumption of Enablement for Both Claimed and Unclaimed Disclosures in Prior Art Patents
10/04/2002  Federal Circuit Articulates 'Material Effect' Test for Best Mode Requirement
08/15/2002  Federal Circuit Restates Law of Written Description for Biotech Patents
07/15/2002  Federal Circuit Provides Guidance on Claim Construction
03/29/2002  No Coverage for Disclosed but Unclaimed Subject Matter under the Doctrine of Equivalents
08/07/2001  European Competition Authority Imposes Interim Measures Forcing U.S. Company to License Intellectual Property
<span>A version of this article also appears in the September, 2001 issue of <i>Managing Intellectual Property<i>.</span>
12/31/1999  106th Congress Enacts New Law on Patent Reform, Satellite Home Viewing and Cybersquatting
Intellectual Property Law Briefing - December 1999
12/01/1998  The U.S. Supreme Court's On-Sale Bar Decision in Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc.
09/01/1998  Status of Software and Business Method Patents After State Street