Insights

The Daily Journal named Crowell & Moring’s Molly A. Jones to its 2024 “Top 40 Under 40” list. The annual list recognizes prominent lawyers in California under the age of 40. 

The Los Angeles Business Journal has named Crowell & Moring one of its Leaders of Influence: Most Admired Law Firms 2024. The list recognizes the top firms to work for in Los Angeles and includes “an assortment of particularly outstanding law firms who are consciously working towards creating diverse, positive, and supportive environments to help drive the success of their attorneys.”

LATINA Style, Inc. honored Crowell & Moring partner Meshach Rhoades and her foundation, the Latinas First Foundation, with the 2024 Community Award. The award was in recognition of the “outstanding contributions and significant positive impact on the LATINA community through… innovative projects, programs, and initiatives that address local needs and challenges.”

Emily Kappers will present on Complaints / Answers during the Chicago Women in IP (ChiWIP) Litigation Bootcamp on Tuesday, November 19. The ChiWIP Litigation Bootcamp features IP litigators from prominent Chicago law firms and industry experts who present on all aspects of the litigation process.

Crowell will be hosting Women in Licensing with guest panelist Sally Ourieff to discuss The Art of the Difficult Conversation. 

This CLE will guide counsel on IP assignments and the impact of new state protections that have been put in place. Anne Elise Herold Li and Ira Saxe will compare the requirements of the states that now have additional protections as well as potential litigation. The panel will also provide best practices for assignment strategies.

Ever since the AIA was enacted, patent disputes have often involved proceedings in both the PTAB and district courts. Because of this, parties are often looking to stop or pause one of the proceedings, so they can focus on the proceeding that they believe is more advantageous to them. Please join a panel featuring Michelle Aspen (Senior Patent Counsel at Unified Patents), Hersh Mehta (Senior IP Litigation Counsel at Hewlett Packard), and Ray Ricordati (Special Counsel at Marshall Gerstein), and moderated by Joshua James (Counsel at Crowell & Moring), for a discussion regarding best practices for dealing with discretionary denials at the PTAB and motions to stay in district courts.