Effective 2021, Cantor Colburn's new Partners are Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Ali Hayter, Jared Howenstine, Karen LeCuyer, Ph.D., Duane Minley and Roberta Pelletier. New Counsel are Alison Caless and Michael Powell. 

Cantor Colburn sends best wishes to our clients and friends around the world. We are fully operational while safeguarding our team. 

Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq., partner in Cantor Colburn’s , will be honored by the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association (GAPABA) at its annual New Partners & Counsel Virtual Celebration on May 21, 2021.

Anne Barry and only a handful other women patent attorneys are recognized by IP Toolworks for the distinction of having the highest performance, based on their ability to overcome 101 rejections, considering both granted patents and applications in which all 101s were overcome but that may not have ultimately issued for other reasons. The article, Celebrating Excellence: Women Patent Prosecutors with Remarkable Track Records in 101, also features guidance from Anne. 

Cantor Colburn has top rankings from IP STARS (Managing IP) in 2020/2021, including #1 in Connecticut and congratulations to Michael Cantor, Phil Colburn, Leah Reimer and David Fox for special recognition.

Pharmaceutical Litigation Chair Steve Coyle will be a panelist at the Paragraph IV Disputes Conference in New York City, April 26-27, 2021.  

Volunteers from The Georgia IP Alliance® (GIPA ) and the Atlanta Chapter of the Chiefs in IP (ChIPs) have come together this week to teach intellectual property to Kindergartners at the Midtown International School (MIS) in celebration of World IP Day on April 26, 2021. ChIPs Atlanta Chapter Board member Tina Dorr helped to organize the event.

Cantor Colburn is proud to sponsor the Atlanta Community Food Bank's 2021 Georgi Legal Food Frenzy.  

Partner and Trademark & Copyright Vice Chair Michelle Ciotola, Sofya Nadgorny of Warner Music Group and Stacy Stewart of Coty, Inc. co-authored the white paper, Trademark Modernization Act - Summary, for trademark practitioners. The authors spoke at the Global Trademark Forum on April 14, 2021.  

Ishir Mehta and the other members of the IPO Software-Related Inventions Committee and the AI & Other Emerging Technologies Committee have collaborated on a new report, published April 6, 2021 in the IPO Law Journal, titled Protecting Software Related to a Medical Device: A Case Law Review & Strategy Guide. 

Partner Tina Dorr has been named to Law360’s 2021 Intellectual Property Editorial Advisory Board. The editorial advisory board provides feedback on Law360's coverage and expert insight on how best to shape future coverage.

Cantor Colburn is ranked #4 for utility patents, #4 for design patents, and #8 for trademarks among U.S. law firms in 2020, published on Carl Oppedahl’s Ant-like Persistence blog annual feature, Toteboards.

Anne Davis Barry will participate in the Women Leaders in IP Law Summit on March 9, 2021. Partner Anne Barry and the Honorable Jacqueline Wright Bonilla, Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board, will participate in the panel, Honoring the Top Accomplishments of Women in IP in 2019., moderated by Gail Zarick, IP Counsel at IBM Corporation. 

Cantor Colburn Partner Karl Vick will be a panelist for the Lexology webinar, Discussing the IP Industry Outlook for the U.S. in 2021, on March 3, 2021 at 1PM ET. Using NovumIP's global IP industry benchmarking report released earlier this year as the discussion starting point, Karl and the other experts on the panel will delve into major themes including COVID-19 resiliency, adapting to industry consolidation, IP protection concerns, reconsidering IP strategy, communicating value, technology challenges and the role of IP service providers. 

Cantor Colburn is proud to sponsor the New Haven American Chemical Society's 6th Annual Student Research Symposium. The annual event will take place virtually and be live streamed in December. Dennis Jakiela, Ph.D., a senior patent at Cantor Colburn, is the head judge.

Join a conversation about how in science can become involved in the patenting process and the challenges and importance of moving the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation. On February 25, at 12 PM ET, the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) presents an online webinar moderated by Cantor Colburn partner and patent attorney Dr. Tina Dorr, Ph.D., and featuring Dr. Susan Hausdorff, Vice President and Chief IP Counsel at Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Emily Kinser, 2015 IBM Master Inventor and current Laboratory Manager of the Inorganics, Ceramics, & Applied Physics Cluster in the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory. Register here.

In Memoriam: David S. Fishman, 1933-2021

All of us at Cantor Colburn offer deepest sympathy to the family of David S. Fishman, who founded the firm that preceded Cantor Colburn. He is of blessed memory.

Brexit, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU), impacts your registered and pending trademarks and registered community designs (RCDs) by creating new corresponding rights in the UK.  What about your utility patents? Brexit has no impact on utility patents pending or granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) because Brexit relates to the UK leaving the EU, and the EPO is separate from the EU. 

Further to our December 22, 2020 Client Alert providing post-Brexit guidance for EU and UK IP rights, surprisingly the UK and the EU announced earlier today, December 24, 2020, that they had reached a final Brexit Trade Deal. Cantor Colburn's Client Alert, December 2020 Brexit Status and Its Impact on Your Trademark and Design Rights, provides a thorough summary.

As the deadline for Brexit approaches, it seems unlikely that a further trade deal between the United Kingdom and the European Union will occur. Therefore, existing guidance on United Kingdom and European trademark and design rights continues unchanged and is summarized in this Cantor Colburn Client Alert.

Cantor Colburn LLP, the #3 firm for patents in the United States, is proud to have been awarded a ten-year, multimillion-dollar contract with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest biomedical research agency in the world, to provide patent legal services in chemistry. 

Katherine Tassmer and Todd Garabedian's article, "Determining joint inventorship: antibody paying attention?" for The Patent Lawyer Magazine Annual 2021 issue. Their article discusses the tenets of joint inventorship under U.S. law with specific reference to the Dana-Farber decision.

Cantor Colburn LLP Co-Managing Partner and Connecticut Innovations Chair Michael Cantor is quoted in the November 16, 2020 The Hartford Business Journal article, Five years in, Hartford's start up scene grows but is still in early stages, about the importance of startups from outside the state that have set up operations in Hartford in recent years.

Cantor Colburn's Client Alert addresses the Federal Circuit's decision on establishing venue in Hatch-Waxman suits.

Cantor Colburn LLP, one of the largest full-service intellectual property law firms in the country, is pleased to announce that partners Michael Cantor and Andrew Ryan are Super Lawyers and Ali Caless and Ali Hayter are Rising Stars. Only 5% of attorneys are selected to be Super Lawyers; only 2.5% of attorneys are selected to be Rising Stars. 

On October 2, 2020, certain fees charged by the USPTO will be increased.  The USPTO indicates that these fee increases are necessary to keep pace with increasing costs and to provide for continued operations.

Cantor Colburn is hosting an AIPLA women's networking and bourbon tasting event via Zoom on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 from 6-7 PM EST, “Building Bonds Over Bourbon: Conversations with IP Colleagues.

The 13th annual New England Parkinson’s Ride will be held on September 12, 2020 as a Synchronized Ride all around the globe. Team Cantor Colburn raised more than $10,000.

Dress for Success Hartford will hold a Virtual and Free Celebration of its 15th Anniversary Capital Catwalk event on September 23, 2020 from 7:30pm – 8:00pm on WFSB's Channel 3 Eyewitness News Facebook Live. Cantor Colburn is proud to be a returning Catwalk Sponsor. We also recognize Lauren Bousquet, Cantor Colburn’s CFO, for volunteering in the organization’s Career Development Program.

Cantor Colburn attorneys Michael A. Cantor, Philmore H. Colburn II, Michael J. Rye, Curtis Krechevsky, David Rodrigues, Ph.D., Tina Dorr, Ph.D. and George A. Pelletier, Jr. have been named Best Lawyers® by U.S. News 2021.

Cantor Colburn's most recent COVID-19 Client Alert summaries the latest guidance from the USPTO: for small and micro entities, deadlines to payment of patent-related fees are extended to September 30, 2020. If deadline for claim of benefit of priority lapses, the usual two-month deadline to petition for restoration of priority is extended to the later of (a) two months, or (b) July 31, 2020.

Varsha Pednekar Ph.D., Patent Agent, is the Career Development Chair of the Association for Women in Science, Gulf Coast Houston Chapter for the 2020-2021 term. 

Anne Davis Barry will be part of a panel discussion at The IP Strategy Summit: COVID-19 & Beyond, a virtual summit on June 23, 2020, presented by Center Force, on the Impact of COVID-19 on Patent Strategy.

The webinar, U.S. Design Patents, Quickest, Easiest, and Cost-Effective, led by Cantor Colburn's Co-Managing Partner Michael Cantor and Design Patent Practice Co-Chair Daniel Drexler, aired on June 17, 2020. A rebroadcast and the presentation are available.