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

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Court of Appeals:  Invalidates Patents Directed to Optimizing Medical Therapy

In Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned two issued patents on the grounds that they  “disproportionately [tie] up the use of … underlying natural laws.”  The patents at issue relate to diagnostic testing by monitoring patients who are given synthetic compounds for optimal treatment of medical conditions.  The issue in the case was whether the patents cover an application of natural laws, which is patentable, or merely the laws themselves, which is not patentable.  The Supreme Court held that the patents “involve well-understood, routine, conventional activity” and that the patents did not cover patentable subject matter that applies natural laws.  Read More

New Rules to Be Set for American Invents Act

Most provisions set forth in the America Invents Act were designed to take effect between the September 16, 2011 Enactment Date and March 16, 2013.  Particularly for those provisions that are to take effect in the future, the U.S. Patent Office is formulating new rules.  Read More

Supreme Court Upholds Law Restoring Copyright to Some Public-Domain Works

On January 18, 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the application of Section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act in Golan v. Holder.  The law in question had the effect of taking some foreign-made works, first published abroad between 1923 and 1989, out of the public domain in the United States to comply with the Berne Convention.  Read More

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