Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt LLP

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. announces Tia Fenton, Kurt Berger and Zachary Stern have been elected partners and former senior associate Joseph Wrkich has been elevated to senior attorney. In addition, Brian Epstein and Soumya Panda have been elevated to senior associates. The new partners:

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. proudly announces that patent reexamination specialist Greg Gardella is joining the firm’s post grant patent practice team as a partner. He most recently was the director of Irell & Manella's reexamination practice.

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. is pleased to announce that partner Stephen Kunin has been appointed Vice Chair of the Patent Cooperation Treaty Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. is pleased to announce that partner Jonathan Hudis has been selected to represent and speak on behalf of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section (ABA-IPL) at the Tenth Annual Trademark Trilateral Cooperation Meeting (Trilateral) hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in December.

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. is pleased to announce that attorneys Christopher Bullard, Jonathan Hudis and Scott McKeown have been appointed to leadership positions within the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section (ABA-IPL).

Intellectual property law firm Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., has launched an Apple iPhone application that features the U.S. district court system and offers many resources to assist and inform the firm’s clients about current IP news and court decisions. The iPhone app, “Oblon, Spivak's Guide to the U.S.

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. is pleased to announce that ten partners have been named to Patent Research Review and Patent Buddy’s Top Patent Prosecutors list.

Firm Also Becomes the First to Secure More Than 5,000 U.S. Patents in a Single Year The intellectual property law firm Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., has obtained a record 5,455 U.S. utility patents issued in 2010, according to numbers provided in the March issue of IP Today magazine.

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. announces partner Todd Baker has been named as one of the Washington Metropolitan region’s Top 25 Minority Business Leaders for 2011 by the Washington Business Journal.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) reversed rejections of patent claims in Ex parte Donald V. Smart. The ruling, an important victory for GSI Group, Inc., a client of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., has implications for future legal decisions.