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Rocky Berndsen Featured in IAM Article: Covid Impact on US Patent Filings
A recent article by Angela Morris for IAM features patent data and insight from Rocky Berndsen, Head of the Harrity Patent Analytics Team. U...
Harrity Featured in Bloomberg Law: Moving the Needle
Harrity & Harrity has recently been recognized by Bloomberg Law for our diversity initiatives, specifically with respect to increasing t...
Elaine Spector Featured in ChIPs for World IP Day
Harrity's Elaine Spector was recently featured in a blog by ChIPs in celebration of World IP Day. The organization shared what World IP D...
Harrity Recognized for DEI Initiatives
Harrity & Harrity has recently been recognized by IM-Media, in their article "Closing diversity gaps in patenting: current initiatives a...
Track One Filings on Faster Track?
Are Track One Filings on a Faster Track? By Neil Kardos, Partner Does filing a Track One prioritized examination request increas...
Harrity Names Ryan Thelen as Newest Partner
Congratulations to Harrity's newest Partner, Ryan Thelen! (WASHINGTON, DC) Harrity & Harrity, LLP, a leading patent law firm based i...
Making Technology Part of Your Strategic Planning, Featuring Neil Kardos
Harrity is focused on providing high-quality work to our clients in a timely & efficient manner, a lot of which comes down to our people...
Harrity Welcomes Four Outstanding Patent Professionals
Harrity & Harrity, LLP, a leading patent preparation and prosecution firm in the electrical and mechanical space, is excited to announce...
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Negotiate Long-Term Flex Work?
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Negotiate Long-Term Flex Work? By Elaine Spector (September 16, 2021) Experts answer questions on career and wor...
Law360 Analysis: Retiring Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O’Malley ft. Eli Mazour
In Praising O'Malley, Attys Call For District Judge To Fill Seat By Ryan Davis Harrity Partner Eli Mazour is featured in Law360's recent...
IPWatchdog on Who Should Head the USPTO, ft. Eli Mazour
The Right Choice: IP Stakeholders Emphasize Practical Experience, Strong IP Advocacy in Next USPTO Head By Gene Quinn Harrity Partner El...
IPWatchdog: Wish Upon a Star ft. Eli Mazour
Wish Upon a Star: Experts Share Their Wildest IP Dreams for 2021 Harrity Partner Eli Mazour is featured in IPWatchdog's recent article as...
Patents for Humanity
By Edward Kim, Harrity Associate Some time ago, in discussing humanitarian efforts and engineering, a friend of mine told me about a conc...
Law360: Harrity & Harrity Launches Academy To Diversify Patent Law
By Sameer Rao Law360 (December 23, 2020, 4:20 PM EST) -- To address some of the issues underlying a lack of diversity in patent law, ...
John Harrity Interviewed for Law360: How 7 IP Firms Weathered The COVID-19 Pandemic
By Dani Kass Law360 (December 21, 2020, 4:47 PM EST) -- Intellectual property firms ranging from just a handful of lawyers to several...
Joe Lentivech – An Ex-PTAB Judge on Ex-Parte Appeals: Clause 8, Episode 23
How does the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) actually operate? What does it take to win an ex parte appeal? When should you req...
Maximize Your Patent Portfolio Using Helferich-Style Claims
By Michael Woodward, Harrity Associate Patent owners often obtain patents to protect products, as well as complementary products or use c...
Automation in the Patent Field: From Fantasy to Reality
By Robert O'Loughlin, Harrity Associate Before joining Harrity & Harrity, LLP at the beginning of 2020, I would have summarily dismis...
Core Wireless: Parsing the Data on Enforcement Trends Three Years On
By Alexander Zajac, Harrity Associate To many patent practitioners, the Federal Circuit’s decision in Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. v....
Brad Watts – Section 101 Reform Efforts in the 116th Congress: Clause 8, Episode 22
Brad Watts is the Majority Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Under the leadership of Se...
Diversity in Patent Law: A Data Analysis of Diversity in the Patent Practice by Technology Background and Region
Harrity's Elaine Spector and LaTia Brand provide a deep-dive analysis of the lack of diversity in the patent practice for the American Bar A...
Professor Adam Mossoff – Academics in IP: Clause 8, Episode 21
When Eli first started practicing in the late aughts, he found that a lot of what he was seeing about patents in various academic papers and...
Bruce MacEwen – Adam Smith, Esq.: Clause 8, Episode 20
On the latest episode of the Clause 8 podcast, Eli interviews Bruce MacEwen – the founder and president of Adam Smith, Esq. Bruce is recogni...
Data-Driven Decision Making for Patent Portfolio Managers
By Bret Tingey, Associate | IPWatchdog.com A patent portfolio can be one of the greatest assets that a company owns. A patent portfolio m...
Harrity Analytics’ Top Patent Firms List Featured in Law360
The newly released 2022 Top Patent Firms List by Harrity Patent Analytics and accompanying data is featured in a recent Law360 article, titl...
Bloomberg Features Patent 300® by Harrity Analytics
The newly released 2023 Patent 300® List by Harrity Patent Analytics and accompanying data is featured in a recent article by Brody Ford for...
Rocky Berndsen Featured in IAM Article: Covid Impact on US Patent Filings
A recent article by Angela Morris for IAM features patent data and insight from Rocky Berndsen, Head of the Harrity Patent Analytics Team. U...
AT&T Slips in Patent Rankings, Rocky Berndsen Quoted for DBJ
A recent article by Brian Womack, Staff Writer for Dallas Business Journal, referred to data and expertise from Rocky Berndsen and the Harri...
Visual Capitalist Features Patent 300® by Harrity Analytics
Visual Capitalist is one of the fastest growing online publishers globally, focused on topics including markets, technology, energy and the...
Track One Filings on Faster Track?
Are Track One Filings on a Faster Track? By Neil Kardos, Partner Does filing a Track One prioritized examination request increas...
Using Examiner Analytics for Prosecution
A Look at Examiner Analytics By Paul Harrity, Managing Partner If you had a patent application with a particular Examiner and these we...
Top Medical Device Companies in 2021 US Patents
Top Medical Device Companies in 2021 US Patents By Rocky Berndsen, Head of Harrity Analytics Medical devices are a $432 billion dollar...
Business Methods Patents Are Alive & Well!
By Rocky Berndsen, Head of Harrity Patent Analytics Business Method patents are alive and well! Here is a list of the top 25 companies th...
Comparing Auto Manufacturer’s Patent Data to Sales, Revenues, and R&D
By Rocky Berndsen, Head of Harrity Patent Analytics One of my favorite ways to look at patent data is by comparing the data to...
Harrity Analytics Announces Top Patent Firms of 2021
HARRITY PATENT ANALYTICS ANNOUNCES THE TOP PATENT FIRMS OF 2021 WASHINGTON (January 20, 2022) – Harrity Patent Analytics is excited to a...
Harrity Analytics Releases 2022 Design Patent 100 List
HARRITY PATENT ANALYTICS RELEASES THE 2022 DESIGN PATENT 100 LIST List ranks top 100 companies, organizations, and universities in the de...
A Look at Patent 300® Companies’ Office Actions Per Patent
HARRITY PATENT ANALYTICS: A LOOK AT PATENT 300® COMPANIES' OFFICE ACTIONS PER PATENT By Rocky Berndsen, Head of Harrity Analytics One...
Law 360: IBM, Samsung Keep Top Spots On Annual Patent 300® List
Law360 publishes report based on Harrity Analytic's annual Patent 300® List. Law360 (January 6, 2022, 7:42 PM EST) -- IBM Corp. maintain...
Harrity Analytics Releases 2022 Patent 300® List
HARRITY PATENT ANALYTICS RELEASES THE 2022 PATENT 300® LIST Top 300 innovators in the patent field ranked by patents obtained WASHINGT...
Titans of Technology: Blockchain / The Top Companies in Blockchain Patents 2021
By Rocky Berndsen Blockchain patenting has been exploding since 2016 and with Bitcoin and Ethereum hitting new all-time highs this year, Ha...
Perfecting Your Prosecution Strategy with Patentprufer
Eli Mazour leads Harrity’s patent prosecution team, developing and implementing best practices for managing workflow and creating innovative...
Harrity Analytics Provides Patent Data on Medical Diagnostics for IAM
Harrity Analytics provides patent data relating to medical diagnostics for IAM to gain an understanding of how Mayo vs Prometheus has impact...
Using Analytics for Patent Portfolio Gap Analysis & Maintenance Fee Strategy
Rocky Berndsen, Head of Analytics for Harrity & Harrity, shows how to use patent prosecution data found in the interactive Patent 300® D...
Harrity Patent Analytics Releases The 2021 Design Patent 100 List
HARRITY PATENT ANALYTICS RELEASES THE 2021 DESIGN PATENT 100 LIST List ranks top 100 companies, organizations, and universities in the desi...
Elaine Spector Goes Viral with #BreakMomBias
Harrity Partner & Diversity Co-chair, Elaine Spector, recently went viral in a LinkedIn post sharing her thoughts on how mothers are tre...
Harrity Welcomed Seven Exceptional Attorneys in 2022
Harrity & Harrity, LLP is excited to report that we have added 7 exceptional patent professionals to the team this year! Over the last 1...
Elaine Spector Featured in Brink News Article, “Why Is There a Chronic Lack of Diversity in the Legal Profession?”
Harrity Partner & Diversity Co-chair, Elaine Spector, was recently featured in an interview with Brink News, where she shared her though...
John Harrity Receives Distinguished Achievement Award from American Heart Association
The American Heart Association, the world’s leading voluntary health organization devoted to a world of longer, healthier lives, recently an...
2022 Harrity Holiday Gift Guide
Are you doing some last minute holiday shopping? Stumped on what to get that one person on your list that seems to have everything? Don't wo...
Harrity 4 Charity Announces 2022 Matching Campaigns
Harrity 4 Charity, the giving-back initiative of Harrity LLP, is excited to announce our 2022 Giving Matches. Now through the end of the yea...
Harrity Joins Google, Amazon, Meta & More in DEI Collective
Harrity & Harrity is excited to announce that we have partnered with Advancing Diversity Across Patent Teams (ADAPT) to bring standardiz...
John Harrity to Chair 33rd Annual American Heart Association Lawyers Have Heart Event in Exciting New Location
Harrity & Harrity is honored to be the Platform Sponsor of the 2023 Lawyers Have Heart 10K, 5K and Fun Walk and excited to announce that...
Elaine Spector Named WIPR Influential Woman in IP
A big congratulations to Harrity Partner & Diversity Co-chair, Elaine Spector, who has been recognized as an Influential Woman in IP in...
Paul Harrity Named a Virginia Weekly’s Go-To IP Lawyer
Harrity & Harrity is honored to announce that Managing Partner, Paul Harrity, has been recognized as a leading intellectual property law...
Tell Me Something Good with Elaine Spector
Partner Elaine Spector discusses diversity in patent law, remote work, family, and overcoming her fears with On the Ball's Steve Nudelberg a...
Rocky Berndsen Named A World Leading IP Strategist in 2022 IAM Strategy 300 List
Harrity & Harrity is pleased to announce that Head of Patent Analytics, Rocky Berndsen, was selected by IAM as a 2022 World Leading IP S...
Harrity Named #1 Midsize Law Firm to Work For
Harrity & Harrity has been named the #1 Midsize Law Firm to Work For by the Vault. Harrity also received this award in 2021! Associates...
John Harrity Joins American Heart Association Board of Directors
John Harrity Joins American Heart Association Board of Directors We are thrilled to announce John Harrity's new position on the American...
Harrity Featured in Bloomberg Law: Moving the Needle
Harrity & Harrity has recently been recognized by Bloomberg Law for our diversity initiatives, specifically with respect to increasing t...
“A Million To 1 Odds I Survived” – John Harrity for Comcast Newsmakers
"A Million To 1 Odds I Survived" John Harrity shares his story for Comcast Newsmakers on behalf of the American Heart Association. J...
Onyx IP Group, Launched from Harrity’s Minority Firm Incubator, Creates Diversity Scholarship
Harrity is thrilled to announce that Onyx IP Group, PLLC, the first minority-owned patent law firm to launch from our Minority Firm Incubato...
Going Global with Attorney Heart Health Advocacy
Going Global with Heart Health Advocacy Washington Lawyer Magazine features John Harrity, Co-Chair of the Lawyers Have Heart event for the...
Lawyers Have Heart, and It’s Time We Get Serious About Keeping It Healthy
Lawyers Have Heart, and It’s Time We Get Serious About Keeping It Healthy By John Harrity for the D.C. Bar Blog My experience with heart d...
Clause 8 Season 3, Episode 6: Ray Millien, a Renaissance Man of IP
Eli Mazour's Clause 8 Podcast, The Voice of IP, has returned for Season 3, featuring all new exclusive interviews with the intellectual prop...
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