IP Prosecution and Portfolio Management
Overview
The intellectual property team at Crowell & Moring helps clients across the United States and abroad realize the full value of their intellectual property and defend against unauthorized use of their ideas— assets often described as "today's international currency." Successful strategy, protection, and management of intellectual property rights can play a significant role in the broader success or failure of a business venture, especially where substantial effort and capital investment are devoted to the development of new technology or new ideas.
Insights
Client Alert | 5 min read | 09.03.25
If You’re Not First, You’re Last: Federal Circuit’s First Review of an AIA Derivation Proceeding
Nearly a decade and a half after the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”), the Federal Circuit finally had its first occasion to review an appeal of a derivation proceeding that was litigated before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) in Global Health Solutions LLC v. Selner. This case provides helpful guidance for patent litigators regarding the proper legal framework in a derivation proceeding and serves as a reminder that patent applications should be filed as soon as possible. As the facts of this case show, it is important that inventors retain documents and other evidence of the conception of their invention, as well as its communication to others, should there be any challenge to their invention.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 07.22.25
Client Alert | 3 min read | 07.02.25
USPTO's Upcoming Changes to the Accelerated Examination Program
Firm News | 5 min read | 07.01.25
Highly Regarded Patent Team to Join Crowell & Moring in London
Insights
EV charging stations & connectors: the importance of design patents
|11.15.24
EV Design & Manufacturing
Safe Harbors in Europe: An Update on the Research and Bolar Exemptions to Patent Infringement
|07.30.15
Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 33, No. 7
Counterfeit remains seized despite expiration of patent, decides Antwerp Judge
|02.19.15
Kluwer Patent Blog
Regulatory Forecast 2015: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year
|01.31.15
a Crowell & Moring LLP publication
Crowell Launches Denver Office, Tapping Deep Into Local Talent Pool
|10.14.21
The National Law Journal
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04.01.15
Textile Insight
ITC Excludes Chinese Company for 10-Years for Trade Secrets Misappropriation
|06.05.15
Crowell & Moring's Trade Secrets Trends
Professionals
Insights
Client Alert | 5 min read | 09.03.25
If You’re Not First, You’re Last: Federal Circuit’s First Review of an AIA Derivation Proceeding
Nearly a decade and a half after the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”), the Federal Circuit finally had its first occasion to review an appeal of a derivation proceeding that was litigated before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) in Global Health Solutions LLC v. Selner. This case provides helpful guidance for patent litigators regarding the proper legal framework in a derivation proceeding and serves as a reminder that patent applications should be filed as soon as possible. As the facts of this case show, it is important that inventors retain documents and other evidence of the conception of their invention, as well as its communication to others, should there be any challenge to their invention.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 07.22.25
Client Alert | 3 min read | 07.02.25
USPTO's Upcoming Changes to the Accelerated Examination Program
Firm News | 5 min read | 07.01.25
Highly Regarded Patent Team to Join Crowell & Moring in London
Insights
Client Alert | 5 min read | 09.03.25
If You’re Not First, You’re Last: Federal Circuit’s First Review of an AIA Derivation Proceeding
Nearly a decade and a half after the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”), the Federal Circuit finally had its first occasion to review an appeal of a derivation proceeding that was litigated before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) in Global Health Solutions LLC v. Selner. This case provides helpful guidance for patent litigators regarding the proper legal framework in a derivation proceeding and serves as a reminder that patent applications should be filed as soon as possible. As the facts of this case show, it is important that inventors retain documents and other evidence of the conception of their invention, as well as its communication to others, should there be any challenge to their invention.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 07.22.25
Client Alert | 3 min read | 07.02.25
USPTO's Upcoming Changes to the Accelerated Examination Program
Firm News | 5 min read | 07.01.25
Highly Regarded Patent Team to Join Crowell & Moring in London