News @ Myers Bigel In March 2009, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences held in In re Xu that a patent examiner who rejected an application for a prostate cancer risk screening method based on post-filing data indicating the method did…
News @ Myers Bigel Myers Bigel is pleased to announce that Robert N. Crouse has been appointed the North Carolina Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section Chair for 2009-2010.
News @ Myers Bigel On April 2, 2009, Mary L. Miller and Robert A. Schwartzman presented a CLE lecture on patent term adjustment (PTA) at the North Carolina Bar Association's annual "2009 Intellectual Property Institute for Paralegals" program. The lecture, which was published as…
News @ Myers Bigel On March 20, 2009, the Federal Circuit issued a decision on the USPTO's "proposed rules" in the Tafas v. Dudas appeal, recently renamed Tafas v. Doll. Press releases by the USPTO about this decision, and paraphrasing of those press…
News @ Myers Bigel Candi L. Riggs, NCCP, is currently teaching a short course on Intellectual Property at Meredith College. The course covers the critical role legal assistants play in intellectual property practice, ethics, and professionalism. Students become familiar with…
News @ Myers Bigel Ken Sibley and Sherry Murphy have authored an article titled "Avoiding the Obvious," published in the February 2009 issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology. The article gives some insight into the reasons why a patent examiner may reject an application…
News @ Myers Bigel Myers Bigel has released its Patent Law Year in Review for 2008. The Year in Review recaps the most important Supreme Court and Federal Circuit cases of the past year, and provides an update on the…
News @ Myers Bigel Randy Ayers, David Beatty, Jim Cannon, Julie Richardson, and Mike Sajovec have been named to the "Legal Elite" by Business North Carolina magazine (January 2009) as recognition of their reputation as some of the top patent and intellectual property lawyers in the state,…
News @ Myers Bigel In 2008, Myers Bigel obtained 572 patents for its clients. This far exceeds any other North Carolina-based law firm. Of this total, over one-third originated from North Carolina inventors or entities. This North Carolina total also…
News @ Myers Bigel Robert A. Schwartzman, Ph.D. of Myers Bigel has authored a paper discussing the implications of the BPAI's recent opinion in In re Miyazaki. In his paper, Rob discusses how the BPAI's decision that the USPTO will use a…