Foley Hoag LLP attorneys, on behalf of the New York Intellectual Property Association (NYIPLA), filed an amicus curiae brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in Cellect, LLC v. Katherine Vidal.
Phillips Nizer has picked up a trademark partner from Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP with over 30 years of experience representing everyone from fashion wholesalers to brand names like Six Flags at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
New York-based IP firm Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein now has 37 lawyers after poaching two partners and two of counsel from boutique IP firm Cooper & Dunham.
Pursuant to
Part 130 , attorneys are obligated to undertake an investigation of a case. But is an attorney responsible for ignorance of facts which the client neglected to disclose?
“No,” says the Commercial Division.
In a recent decision by Justice Andrew Borrok, the Commercial Division discussed this very issue. In
Morgan and Mendel Genomics v Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (“Einstein”) hired the law firm of Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP (“Defendant”) to assist Einstein in obtaining a patent for its new genetic testing technology, invented by Einstein employees, Dr. Ostrer and Mr. Loke. By way of background, the publication date of the technology is critical because it starts the