Neil Maloney joins the GTPP Team
Neil Maloney’s practice focuses on U.S. and foreign patent strategy in a wide variety of technical disciplines, including hardware, software, electromechanical, semiconductors, and material sciences. Having represented clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, he has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications. Neil is also experienced in drafting intellectual property agreements and opinion letters regarding issues such as infringement, validity, and product clearance.

GTPP Successful In USPTO Interference Proceedings
In an interference proceeding before the U.S.P.T.O, GTPP attorneys Steve Grossman and Beth Filip recently received a favorable determination for GTPP’s client, T.F.H. Publications, Inc., that the opposing party’s patent claims were obvious and therefore unpatentable, leading to a cancellation of U.S. Patent No. 6,408,797 under 35 USC § 135(a).  See, Memorandum Opinion & Order, Patent Interference 105,507 JL (March 11, 2008).  An appeal has been filed by the patent owner at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and GTPP will now be handling the appeal.    .

Kevin Carroll will be teaching at the e-Law Summer Institute (eLSI 2008)
Kevin Carroll will be teaching at the e-Law Summer Institute (eLSI 2008) at the University College Cork in Cork, Ireland on July 16, 2008. Kevin will lecture on the Global Patent System, the U.S. Patent System, and Software / E-commerce Patents. The eLaw Summer Institute is offered by Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH together with the University College Cork and includes courses in comparative IP, cyberlaw, e-commerce and Internet regulation. For additional information on the e-Law Summer Institute see www.piercelaw.edu/ipsi