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Intellectual Property

Feb. 12, 2013

For the first time, Wilson Sonsini lawyers use new law to halt business method patent suit

Lawyers at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC scored a courtroom victory defending a patent case by test-running a new provision of the America Invents Act for the first time.


By Rachel Swan


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Lawyers at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC scored a courtroom victory defending a patent case by test-running a new provision of the America Invents Act for the first time.


Citing a new post-grant review procedure that allows defendants to challenge a plaintiff's business method claims at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Wilson Sonsini team convinced a Delaware federal judge to sta...

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