Intellectual Property

Appellate Law

Jonathan Bloom | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Introduction Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s May 19, 2014 decision in Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.[1] the chances of being able to successfully sue Jimmy Page for stealing the opening acoustic guitar line of the classic 1970 song “Stairway to Heaven” would seem...

Intellectual Property

Danielle M. DeFilippis, Ami Bhatt | Norris McLaughlin

Editor: There were three key false advertising cases decided this year. Pom Wonderful LLC v. The Coca-Cola Company, 134 S.Ct. 2228 (2014) (Supreme Court), Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 134 S.Ct. 1377 (2014) (Supreme Court), Merck Eprova AG v. Gnosis S.P.A., 760 F...

Appellate Law

David W. Long | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Editor: Provide a brief description of your practice. Long: I started out as an engineer rocket scientist before going into law. My 20-year patent practice focuses primarily on litigation in district and appellate courts, as well as proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“...