Ostrolenk Faber is a premier intellectual property boutique law firm. Since 1929, we have specialized in domestic and international patent, trademark and copyright law matters. We handle all aspects of IP law from counseling clients to prosecuting their applications to litigating their disputes. Our client base spans from Fortune 500 companies to privately owned businesses to individual inventors. They operate in fields as diverse as consumer electronics, luxury goods, entertainment, pharmaceuticals, and industrial products. With over 75 years of history, we have participated in the development of intellectual property law and gained the experience necessary to best serve our clients now and in the future. Read More

Patent Office Offers Suggested Claim Language To Cover Computer Readable Media

In a recent Notice (January 26, 2010), the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, David Kappos, addressed the eligibility of computer readable media for patent protection.

Claims directed to "computer readable media" (such as a computer hard drive, compact disk, flash drive, or transitory propagating signals) are likely to be rejected under 35 U.S.C. §101 for defining non-statutory subject matter. The computer readable media may be construed to cover signals, per se, which are considered not patentable. Except in relatively unusual cases where signals are the only possible embodiment, this would likely be unintended by the patent practitioner.  Read More

As Seen In… Forbes, December, 2009

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Practising Law Institute’s  4th Annual Patent Law Institute

Ostrolenk Faber partner Robert C. Faber is part of the New York Faculty of the Practising Law Institute’s 4th Annual Patent Law Institute. Mr. Faber, who is the author of the important treatise Faber (formerly Landis) on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting, will serve as a lecturer and clinical instructor.  The program is designed to cover the practice impact of recent developments on all three sub-groups in the patent law community: patent prosecutors, patent litigators, and patent transactional lawyers. The program will take place in New York on March 1 and 2, 2010 . For more information regarding the program and for registration information click here. 

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