Under the principles in SCA Hygiene, Petrella, and Brockamp, there is no room for the courts to displace Congress' specific policy choice on timeliness, even when 'the lack of a laches defense could produce policy outcomes judges deem undesirable.' The Supreme Court rejected equitable defenses of laches in infringement suits, reasoning that by enacting a statute of limitation, Congress left no statutory "gap" for equitable judgments on timeliness. See Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (2014), and SCA Hygiene Prods. v. First Quality Baby Prods (2017).
In this position, you will be responsible for providing a broad range of IP services to the company, both directly and in conjunction with external US and foreign IP counsel. The primary focus of your role will be eliciting invention disclosures, drafting and prosecuting patent applications worldwide, advising on trademark-related matters, analyzing third-party IP rights, and contributing to Lutron's global IP strategies.
Given the recent proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) patent drafting technology, some in the legal services industry are asking whether AI is the patent profession's "ultimate bad day,"on par with the dinosaurs' ultimate bad day posited by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez in 1980. Like the asteroid thought to cause a mass extinction of the dinosaurs, will AI be a formidable impactor that renders patent prosecution an unprofitable practice area in law firms and alternative legal service providers (ALSPs)?
The representative claims recite shower rings with specific design features: a slit extending through the ring to an opening, and in some claims, a "projecting edge" that extends from the ring's outer circumference. The accused products, manufactured by Marquis and sold by Kartri under the "Ezy-Hang" brand, featured rings with flat upper edges similar to Fig 21 above -a design feature that became the central battleground for determining infringement.
ArentFox Schiff LLP is seeking a patent prosecution professional (patent agent or attorney) with three or more years of experience to join our highly regarded team in our Los Angeles office. Experience in wireless telecommunications, including 5G/6G technologies and WiFi, is required. Additional experience with power devices, analog circuits, medical devices, software, mechanical devices, and 3D printing is a plus. A degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or a related field is required.
