Cantor Colburn News
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April 22, 2024
The International Trademark Association (INTA) has recognized Benjamin Cantor as a Rising Star. INTA’s Rising Star program identifies and supports upcoming leaders in intellectual property. Honorees are chosen based on their dedication to enhancing the IP profession or INTA as an organization.
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March 15, 2024
Cantor Colburn is a 2024 Top 10 Most Active Law Firm and a 2024 Top 50 Best Performing Law Firm from Patexia. James Merrick, Daniel Lent, Daniel Drexler, Brad Lawrence, and David Fox are recognized individually for skill and productivity.
Cantor Colburn LLP is pleased to announce that six attorneys have been promoted within the Firm to partnership, effective January 1, 2024. The new partners are Asaf Batelman, Ali Caless, Nancy Kennedy, Sung Wook Kooh, Matteo Pedini, and Kimberly Vines, Ph.D. The promoted attorneys have been part of the firm for several years, earning the respect of their colleagues and consistently delivering excellent service to clients throughout their tenure.
Cantor Colburn LLP has earned Mansfield Rule Certification status for midsize law firms, a key industry accreditation that reflects the Firm’s commitment to fostering diversity among its leadership ranks. Mansfield Certification is awarded by Diversity Lab to law firms that consider at least 30% women, LGBTQ+ lawyers, lawyers of color, and lawyers with disabilities for leadership roles, advancements in the partnership, client pitch opportunities, and in hiring. Cantor Colburn completed a rigorous 18-month collaboration with Diversity Lab and 70 other law firms participating in a certification process to grow and sustain diversity in law firm leadership.
- October 5, 2023
Cantor Colburn Partner Duane Minley hosts a Roundtable Discussion on Mentorship and Sponsorship at Driving Diversity in Law & Leadership Summit presented by Centerforce on October 5, 2023, in Seattle.
- May 2, 2024
Dan Lent will attend the U.S.-Japan Society Conference: Navigating Business, Economy & Technology, presented by the Japan Society, on May 2, 2024, in New York City.
On April 11, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools in practice before the USPTO (the “Guidance”). 89 Fed. Reg. 25609 (Apr. 11, 2024). Cantor Colburn’s latest Client Alert, USPTO Guidance on the Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in Practice Before the USPTO, walks through the latest guidance in depth and provides a summary for practitioners.
- April 11, 2024
Cantor Colburn Partner David Bomzer will be a panelist in the live interactive CLE webinar, "Protecting IP in Joint Ventures and Collaborations: Key Considerations, Management of IP, and Structuring Agreements" on April 11, 2024 from 1-2:30 PM. This CLE webinar will guide counsel to IP owners on protecting IP in a joint venture (JV) or collaboration.
- 2024
David Kincaid, a partner at Cantor Colburn LLP, is a contributing author for the Intellectual Property Owner’s Association's recently published “AI Patenting Handbook,” a white paper on patenting artificial intelligence inventions.
- The Patent Lawyer MagazineApril 4, 2024
Cantor Colburn LLP was named one of the “Top 10 Patent Firms and IP Practices," and recognized as an “Award Winning Law Firm 2024" by The Patent Lawyer Magazine for North America – Northeast.
- The Patent Lawyer MagazineMarch/April 2024
"Inventor interviews – do a great job on these and make patent law easy" by Cantor Colburn partner Howard Levy, appears in The Patent Lawyer Magazine March/April 2024 Issue. Howard discusses how patent attorneys can approach inventor interviews to ensure that they are as successful as possible.
On February 13, 2024, the USPTO issued inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions. The guidance provides information to stakeholders, including patent applicants, practitioners, and examiners, regarding determining inventorship for patents or patent applications for inventions created by humans with the assistance of AI systems. In the Guidance, the USPTO suggests five “guiding principles” that are meant to aid stakeholders in determining whether a natural person’s contribution in an AI-assisted invention is significant, in accordance with the factors set forth in Pannu v. Iolab Corp. The Guidance also discusses other issues related to AI-assisted inventions, including practitioners’ duty of candor and good faith, inventor declarations, and assignments. Along with the Guidance, the USPTO published two examples on inventorship specifically for AI-assisted inventions to aid stakeholders with applying the guiding principles.
- February 20, 2024
Cantor Colburn's Trademark & Copyright Practice Group ranks #11 out of all U.S. for its activity in 2023, serving hundreds on clients in obtaining trademark protection in the U.S. The attorneys and professional staff in this group dedicate their practice solely to trademarks and copyrights (Ant-like Persistence Toteboards 2024).
- February 2024
Cantor Colburn achieves top rankings in a wide range of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s technology centers and tops the rankings in several key technologies including mechanical engineering, chemical and materials engineering, semiconductors, and more.
Our of hundreds of law firms, Cantor Colburn ranks #9 for U.S. design patents in 2023. Ant-like Persistence publishes annual "Toteboards" of patent and trademark rankings. Cantor Colburn ranks #5 for design patents and #11 for trademarks. Significantly, no other law firm ranks higher in all three categories.
Our of hundreds of law firms, Cantor Colburn ranks #4 for U.S. design patents in 2023. Ant-like Persistence publishes annual "Toteboards" of patent and trademark rankings. Cantor Colburn ranks #9 for utility patents and #11 for trademarks. Significantly, no other law firm ranks higher in all three categories.
- Ant-like Persistence
Cantor Colburn ranks #11 for Trademarks out of hundreds of U.S. law firms in 2023. Ant-like Persistence publishes annual "Toteboards" of trademark and patent rankings. In patents, Cantor Colburn ranks #9 for utility patents and #4 for design patents. Significantly, no other law firm ranks higher in all three categories.
U.S. News - Best Lawyers® has ranked Cantor Colburn among the country’s "Best Law Firms" for 2024. Cantor Colburn’s patent, litigation, trademark, and copyright, practices were recognized.
Cantor Colburn earns top rankings in the Patexia 2023 Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report: Cantor Colburn is the #4 Most Active Law Firm and the #51 Best Performing Law Firm in Bio-Tech. James Merrick is in the Top 50 for Most Active in U.S. Patent Prosecution, Daniel Lent and Daniel Drexler are in the Top 100 Most Active Patent Prosecution Attorneys, and Brad Lawrence and Jay Jang, Ph.D. are in the Top 250 Most Active Patent Prosecution Attorneys.
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 Todd Garabedian are 2023 Super Lawyers and Ali Caless is a Super Lawyers Rising Stars. Only 5% of attorneys are selected to be Super Lawyers; only 2.5% of attorneys are selected to be Rising Stars.
- September 11, 2023
UConn School of Law Dean Eboni Nelson has appointed Nancy Kennedy Visiting Professor from Practice. UConn Today featured Nancy's appointment in its September 11, 2023 newsletter.
- August 17, 2023
Cantor Colburn is proud to announce that the following attorneys are recognized as 2024 Best Lawyers: Michael Cantor, Michelle Ciotola, Phil Colburn, Steve Coyle, Todd Garabedian, Ph.D., David Rodrigues, Ph.D., Mike Rye, and Susan Zerull. Ali Caless is Best Lawyers: One to Watch.
- The Patent LawyerAugust 1, 2023
Anne Maxwell, Partner and Chair of the Pharmaceutical Patent Practice Group, reports on the Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi case that has cemented enablement requirements drawn from the Wands Test and three recent biotech decisions in her article, "Federal Circuit cases provide enablement guidance following Supreme Court decision," appearing in the July/August 2023 issue of the Patent Lawyer Magazine.
- The Trademark Lawyer 2023, Issue 3July 1, 2023
In her article, "Penguins, Grogu, and the color orange," appearing in the Trademark Lawyer Magazine in Issue 3, 2023, Michelle Ciotola, Partner and Trademark & Copyright Chair at Cantor Colburn LLP, evaluates the ever-evolving debate surrounding AI-created works according to US Copyright Law from both a use and generation perspective. Michelle leads the #8 trademark practice in the U.S. and is a frequent speaker on intellectual property and artificial intelligence issues.
- June 9, 2023
Cantor Colburn is proud to sponsor the Raytheon Technologies Invention Convention U.S. Nationals at the Henry Ford campus on June 7- 9, 2023. The eighth annual event takes place inside the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation where more than 300 students from across the country display their inventions alongside the greatest innovations in American history. Invention Convention Worldwide is a K-12 invention education program aligned with national and state educational standards that teaches students problem-identification, problem-solving, entrepreneurship, and creativity skills. The program builds confidence in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship for life.
- June 2023
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi (May 18, 2023), that agreed with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the lower District Court, and Sanofi, that Amgen’s patents on its cholesterol drug Repatha were invalid. The Court held that the broad functional “genus claims” in those patents would require a person of ordinary skill in the art to engage in “undue experimentation” to make every species of antibody covered by the claims, contrary to the Patent Laws. This was the first time since 1928 that the Supreme Court has ruled in a patent enablement case.
- May 25, 2023
The UConn School of Law presents a thought-provoking panel discussion on the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), its ethical implications and its impact on society. Recently, the Future of Life Institute open letter, signed by Elon Musk and other influential figures, called for a pause on all AI experiments. Eric Baron, Partner and Chair of Cantor Colburn's Artificial Intelligence Practice Group and UConn Law '07, is on the panel of distinguished UConn alumni and faculty who will discuss this emerging and rapidly evolving technology.
- May 4, 2023
Congratulations to the dynamic and inspiring leaders in the 2023 class of honorees at the Hartford Business Journal's Top 25 Women in Business. Cantor Colburn is proud to sponsor the awards event on May 4, 2023, at which the women leading organizations in the greater Hartford area.