by williampagan | Feb 18, 2020 | Firm News
Coats & Bennett attorneys William G. Pagán and Krista Contino Saumby will be attending the Hispanic National Bar Association’s 2020 Corporate Counsel Conference & Moot Court Competition being held on March 19-22 in Phoenix, AZ. Despite Hispanics...
by williampagan | Feb 13, 2020 | Firm News
Coats & Bennett, PLLC, one of the nation’s highest rated intellectual property law firms, is proud to announce that Gavin Parsons has been elected as a Member of the Firm. Mr. Parsons is a veteran litigator who represents clients across numerous industries in high...
by williampagan | Feb 3, 2020 | Firm News
Coats & Bennett is proud to announce that Attorneys William G. Pagán and Edward H. Green III both had unblemished records on Appeal before the Patent Trials and Appeal Board (PTAB) in 2019, obtaining complete reversals of the Examiner’s rejections in six out...
by williampagan | Jan 27, 2020 | Firm News
Coats & Bennett is proud to announce that, for the second consecutive year, William G. Pagán has been named to Super Lawyers’ North Carolina Intellectual Property Rising Stars list. No more than 2.5% of all attorneys in the state are named to the Rising...
by williampagan | Jan 9, 2020 | Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Litigation, Patent Law
Printed publications often are the best source of evidence that a patent claim is invalid. For example, textbooks, technical specifications, whitepapers, and even comments posted in an online forum can include details that provide one or more grounds under 35 U.S.C....
by williampagan | Jan 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
William G. Pagán has been given the Meritorious Service Award for his pro bono work in service of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), United States Air Force Auxiliary. Mr. Pagán serves dual roles on the North Carolina Wing Commander’s staff as North Carolina’s...
by williampagan | Dec 12, 2019 | Copyrights, Firm News, Intellectual Property Litigation
Coats & Bennett recently filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Institute of Building Design (AIBD in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in an architectural works copyright case. In Design Basics, LLC, et al v. Signature Construction, Inc., et al.,...
by williampagan | Aug 22, 2019 | Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Litigation, Patent Law
The Federal Circuit recently held in Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Techtronic Industries Co. that the “movable barrier operator” claimed in Chamberlain’s U.S. Patent 7,224,275 is invalid as being directed to a patent ineligible abstract idea. ...
by williampagan | May 31, 2019 | Firm News, Intellectual Property Litigation
On May 9, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a judgment in Engineered Corrosion Solutions v. South-Tek Systems, LLC, Potter Electric Co LLC, Appeal No. 2018-1685 in favor of South-Tek and Potter Electric, both represented by Coats & Bennett,...
by williampagan | May 21, 2019 | Firm News
On May 21, 2019, William G. Pagán of Coats & Bennett spoke with the Senior class of Research Triangle High School along with two other distinguished panelists about their professional and academic career path. Research Triangle High School is a public charter...
