Donika Pentcheva has been invited to the Esquire Roundtable. The Esquire Roundtable is a professionally-moderated forum to discuss practice group and law firm leadership strategy, business development tactics and tools, firm operations, the professionals involved, and future trends.
Donika Pentcheva contributed to updating the Model Patent Local Rules. The Model Patent Local Rules are provided as general guidance for consideration during the formulation of local rules for use in patent cases. One of the fundamental goals of the Rules is to provide a model set of jury instructions that would not be biased […]
Donika Pentcheva’s legal research has been cited in an article published by the University of Minnesota’s Law Review. The article delves into patentable subject matter. The article concludes as follows: Mayo, Myriad, and Alice streamlined the patentable subject matter doctrine into a two-part test that proves difficult to apply to epigenetics-based inventions. The close relation […]
Donika Pentcheva’s legal research has been cited in the UNC School of Law’s North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology in an article, titled “Juries in U.S. Patent Cases: A Comparative Portrait of the Boundaries of Democracy.” The Introduction of the article provides as follows: The optimal boundaries of democracy are persistently challenged even in […]
Donika Pentcheva represented the American Bar Association in an Amicus Brief filed with the United States Supreme Court in a case involving patent latches. The case is titled: “SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC.” The case held that laches cannot be invoked as a defense against a claim for damages brought […]
Donika Pentcheva has been invited to providing updates to the claim construction sections of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Model Patent Jury Instructions. More specifically, Donika Pentcheva has been assigned to the sections involving patent claim construction and construction of means-plus-function patent claims. The patent claims are numbered sentences at the end of the […]