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The ILN is proud to announce our latest firm of the month, Wolpert Rechtsanwälte, Germany!
Due to the increased internationalization and specialization of Law Marga Wolpert-Witzel (active in the ILN since 1995) in 2008 decided to leave a big supra-regional law firm to dedicate herself and her team to legal advice and representation services in specialized fields. Their emphasis is on the areas of Intellectual Property (trademarks, design, patent, utility model), including Copyright and Unfair Competition Law as well as Contract Law (draft/revision of distribution-, license-, cooperation- and research and development contracts (R&D) – always with a focus on the EU Antitrust requirements.

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The ILN is proud to announce our latest firm of the month, Bryn Aarflot, Intellectual Property Boutique – Oslo, Norway!
Bryn Aarflot was founded in 1947 and is one of Norway’s leading intellectual property firms. Their clients range from large international companies to individual entrepreneurs, representing all fields of business and industry.

The firm provides technical and legal expertise at all levels on all areas of intellectual property law.

Bryn Aarflot’s professionals draw on their broad range of technical backgrounds and legal experience to serve the needs of the client.

What makes them unique and different from most other IP firms is that as well as being one of Norway’s leading filing and prosecution firms, they also act as litigators. This enables them to offer a full range of services in the IP field.

Bryn Aarflot has regularly been ranked by the renowned, independent publication Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) as the “Norwegian IP Law Firm of the Year,” and is listed in the top tier of MIP’s World IP Survey in trademark, copyright and patent law.

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We kicked off the Saturday morning session with a presentation from Mr. Norman Zivin of one of the ILN’s member firms in New York, Cooper & Dunham, who reported on their recent involvement in a Supreme Court case and the implications for ILN member firms, both in the US and abroad.

Norman said that the case involved a deep fryer, a product made by their client, SEB, a French company in Lyon.  A number of years ago, they brought a lawsuit against a company in Hong Kong for infringement of the patent.  The opposing side defended on the grounds that they couldn’t have infringed the patent because the products were made and sold in China. They said that therefore, they don’t do any business in the United States and couldn’t have induced anyone to infringe, because they didn’t even know that SEB had a patent.

The case was tried three or four years ago, before a jury. Norman commented that the reason that a lot of foreign companies bring cases to the US is that juries in the US tend to grant much higher damages than one would get in a case in Europe or Asia.  The jury took about 15 minutes to deliberate and came back with a judgement of $5 million in favor of their client. The case went up on appeal, and the decision was affirmed, so everyone thought the case was over.Continue Reading Actual Knowledge Necessary for Inducement, Mr. Norman Zivin, Cooper & Dunham

Today, we held our annual luncheon at the INTA conference for ILN members. I always enjoy this lunch because I get to meet and reconnect with attorneys who are not necessarily attendees of our Regional and Annual Meetings.

We had a wonderful lunch again today at One Market Restaurant here in San Francisco, with great…