As RatnerPrestia continues to grow its professional IP relationships with European companies in all tech areas, and as a sign of its continuing commitment to its transatlantic partnerships, Jonathan H. Spadt travels to Germany this month for client meetings and business development efforts. 

Brian P. O’Shaughnessy, a Shareholder in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, is the 2013 Chair for the Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada) Annual Meeting. 

Kenneth N. Nigon, a familiar contributor of the Practising Law Institute and Shareholder at RatnerPrestia, will co-chair and speak at PLI’s Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2013: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing. 

RatnerPrestia takes great pleasure in announcing that Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has recognized Brian P. O’Shaughnessy, Shareholder at RatnerPrestia, as its 2013 Outstanding Alumnus.

Jonathan H. Spadt, President & CEO at RatnerPrestia, is among three panelists presenting the topic of: Learning About IP Exhaustion Without Getting Exhausted at the AIPLA 2013 Spring Meeting.

7th grade students at AIM Academy (Conshohocken, PA) were given a lesson in patents on April 29 by Christopher R. Lewis, Shareholder at RatnerPrestia.

RatnerPrestia President & CEO, Jonathan H. Spadt, traveled to Germany last week for the Porsche Design Filing Policy Conference. Spadt provided his expert guidance on design right patents specific to Porsche and was an esteemed contributor during the conference held in Leipzig, Germany on April 24.

Kenneth N. Nigon and Christopher R. Lewis, Shareholders at RatnerPrestia, moderated a lunch webinar on April 24 at the firm’s Berwyn office. Please click here to view the presentation slides for “The America Invents Act | The Next Round: Implementation of First Inventor to File Rules”.

On April 11, Rex A. Donnelly, Managing Shareholder of RatnerPrestia’s Wilmington office, spoke about the practicalities of Intellectual Property Law to a group of new and existing entrepreneurs as a guest speaker for the FastTrac® New Ventures™ / FastTrac® Growth Ventures™ program. 

Members of RatnerPrestia’s litigation team were asked to participate in the 7th Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute on April 24-25, 2013.  The institute will concentrate on present-day intellectual property law issues and will address topics such as copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks.