The United States District Court for the Northern District of California is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of California:Alameda,Contra Costa,Del Norte,Humboldt,Lake,Marin,Mendocino,Monterey,Napa,San Benito,San Francisco,San Mateo,Santa Clara,Santa Cruz,and Sonoma. The court hears cases in its courtrooms in Eureka,Oakland,San Francisco,and San Jose. It is headquartered in San Francisco.
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) have been acknowledged and protected in China since 1980. China has acceded to the major international conventions on protection of rights to intellectual property. Domestically,protection of intellectual property law has also been established by government legislation,administrative regulations,and decrees in the areas of trademark,copyright,and patent. Although this IP framework is developing quickly,as of 2023 it remains less developed than most industrialized countries.
The United States is considered to have the most favorable legal regime for inventors and patent owners in the world. Under United States law,a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process,machine,article of manufacture,or composition of matter,(2) that is new,useful,and non-obvious. A patent is the right to exclude others,for a limited time from profiting of a patented technology without the consent of the patent-holder. Specifically,it is the right to exclude others from:making,using,selling,offering for sale,importing,inducing others to infringe,applying for an FDA approval,and/or offering a product specially adapted for practice of the patent.
Giles Sutherland Rich was an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) and later on was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC),and had enormous impact on patent law. He was the first patent attorney appointed to any federal court since Benjamin Robbins Curtis was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1851.
Finnegan,Henderson,Farabow,Garrett &Dunner LLP, commonly known as Finnegan, is an international intellectual property law firm based in Washington,DC,United States. Finnegan was founded on March 1,1965,by Marc Finnegan and Douglas Henderson in Washington,DC. It is one of the largest law firms focusing exclusively on the practice of intellectual property (IP) law,practicing all aspects of patent,trademark,copyright,and trade secret law,including counseling,prosecution,licensing,and litigation. Finnegan,also represents clients on IP issues related to U.S. and European patents and trademarks,international trade,portfolio management,the Internet,e-commerce,government contracts,antitrust,and unfair competition.
Arthur Joseph Gajarsa is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
American Inns of Court (AIC) are designed to improve the skills,professionalism and ethics of the bench and bar. An American Inn of Court is an amalgam of judges,lawyers,and in some cases,law professors and law students. Each Inn meets approximately once a month both to "break bread" and to hold programs and discussions on matters of ethics,skills,and professionalism.
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie is a U.S. law firm with approximately 300 attorneys across ten offices in Arizona,California,Colorado,Nevada,and New Mexico. Its administrative offices are located in Phoenix,where it was founded in 1950 as Lewis &Roca. In 2015,The American Lawyer magazine ranked the firm number 179 in its annual Top 200 U.S. law firms list. It is one of the top five law firms in Arizona.
Pauline Newman is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has been called "the heroine of the patent system","the Federal Circuit's most prolific dissenter",and "the greatest ally to inventors with respect to [calling out] the ignorance of the CAFC,district courts,and at times even the Supreme Court". Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore commented of Newman that "many of her dissents have later gone on to become the law—either the en banc law from our court or spoken on high from the Supremes".
Leonard E. Davis is an American lawyer and former judge. He served as Chief Justice of the Twelfth Court of Appeals of Texas,from 2000-2002,and was nominated by George W. Bush on January 23,2002 to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas until his retirement May 15th,2015.
Howard Thomas Markey was an American jurist who served as the first Chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is often credited with establishing that court's renown and competence in intellectual property law.
Randall Ray Rader is a former United States Circuit Judge and former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
A patent court is a court specializing in patent law,or having substantially exclusive jurisdiction over patent law issues. In some systems,such courts also have jurisdiction over other areas of intellectual property law,such as copyright and trademark.
Banner Witcoff,Ltd. is an American law firm that specializes in the practice of intellectual property law,including patent,trademark,copyright,trade secret,computer franchise and unfair competition law. The firm engages in the procurement,enforcement and litigation of intellectual property rights throughout the world,including all federal and state agencies,and the distribution of such rights through leasing and franchising. The firm has approximately 125 attorneys and agents in its Chicago,IL;Washington,DC;Boston,MA;and Portland,OR offices.
Raymond T. Chen is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Susan Gertrude Braden is a former judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Braden was appointed to that court in 2003 by President George W. Bush. She was appointed chief judge by President Donald Trump on March 13,2017 and assumed senior status on July 13,2018,and retired in 2019.
Kara Farnandez Stoll is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The Beijing Intellectual Property Court is a Court of special jurisdiction in the People's Republic of China,which handles:"first-instance IP civil or administrative cases with professional features involving patents,new varieties of plants,layout design of integrated circuit,know-how and so on." There are similar courts based in Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Peter v. NantKwest Inc.,589 U.S. ___ (2019),was a United States Supreme Court case from the October 2019 term.
