News @ Myers Bigel Myers Bigel is pleased to provide this Overview of the Patent Reform Act of 2009, written by Vernon Guthrie. The Overview summarizes the notable provisions of the Reform Act, including those establishing a first-to-file system with derivation…
News @ Myers Bigel Myers Bigel congratulates both Kirsten C. Carlos and Joyce Paoli on their new appointments as Committee Chairs for the Research Triangle Paralegal Association (RTPA) for 2010. Kirsten C. Carlos is a National Certified Paralegal (CP) and…
News @ Myers Bigel Myers Bigel is proud to announce its participation in the 2010 IP Institute for Paralegals on April 22, 2010, at the North Carolina Bar Center in Cary, NC. Attorneys Sherry Murphy and Bruce Owens will speak about "Information Disclosure Statements…
News @ Myers Bigel Myers Bigel has once again received national recognition for the quality of its patent prosecution work. Ocean Tomo, a national patent ranking firm, has ranked Myers Bigel second nationally among firms that prosecuted the best telecommunications…
News @ Myers Bigel Myers Bigel has released its Patent Law Year in Review for 2009. The Year in Review recaps the most important Supreme Court and Federal Circuit cases of the past year, and their effect on a wide…
News @ Myers Bigel David Beatty, Jim Cannon, Bob Glatz, Julie Richardson, and Mike Sajovec have been named to the "Legal Elite" by Business North Carolina magazine (January 2010) as recognition of their reputation as some of the top business, patent, and intellectual property lawyers in the…
News @ Myers Bigel Mitch Bigel, Jim Cannon, Bob Glatz, and Ken Sibley were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Intellectual Property Law. Selection to Best Lawyers is based on a rigorous peer-review survey…
News @ Myers Bigel In 2009, Myers Bigel obtained 630 patents for its clients. This exceeds that of any other North Carolina-based law firm. Of this total, over one-third originated from North Carolina inventors or entities. This North Carolina total…
News @ Myers Bigel Laura M. Kelley has become a shareholder in our firm. Laura Kelley received her Bachelors of Science Degree in Physics from the College of William and Mary and her Juris Doctor degree, with high honors, from Duke…
News @ Myers Bigel Rohan G. Saba has become a shareholder in our firm. Rohan Saba received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from Virginia Tech, and his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of North Carolina at…