Joseph T. Schuler, Esq. Associate We are proud to announce that one of our firm’s young attorneys, Joseph Schuler, was one of only twelve applicants selected to participate in the NDNY FCBA Trial Advocacy Program this past Summer, an intensive training initiative conducted by the Northern District of New York Federal Court Bar Association in…
HRFM is proud to congratulate Alana M. Fuierer, Esq., a partner and leader of the firm’s Western New York office in Rochester, for being honored by recognition in the Rochester Business Journal and Rochester Daily Record’s Power 50 Law list! The honor, rightly bestowed on Alana…
HRFM is proud to be a sponsor of the 2025 New York State Innovation Summit to be held in Rochester, New York, on October 29th and 30th. We are committed to supporting innovation and intellectual property in New York. Come visit us at the Summit, Table #118! #NYInnovationSummit #HRFM #IPInnovation #LawAndInnovation #NYtech
By: Claire E. Reynolds-Peterson, Ph.D. & Teige P. Sheehan, Esq., Ph.D. A recent decision from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals is another reminder for patent applicants of the ease by which description of a technology in a prior publication can prevent the grant of a patent on a subsequent application. Importantly, this is true even if…
In In re Cellect, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that an award of patent term adjustment (PTA), extending the term of a patent by delaying its expiration to compensate a patentee for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office delays during examination, can render the patent invalid for obviousness-type double patenting (ODP), even…
Teige Sheehan, Ph.D., will be speaking on a panel regarding obviousness-type double patenting at the American Conference Institute’s 23rd Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents, May 19–20, 2025, at the New York City Bar Association, New York, NY. Registrants can use discount code S10-762-762L25.S for a 10% registration discount.
We are pleased to announce that Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. has been ranked #1 in the world by Juristat in its list of Top Patent Firms in Technology Center 2100. HFRM and its team of 24 attorneys tops this list in which some firms have hundreds of practicing attorneys. Technology Center 2100 at…