Author: Thomas Vitt

Tom is a partner in Dorsey’s Trial Department and is the former Co-Chair of the IP Litigation Practice Group. Tom has acted as lead counsel in a variety of patent, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition cases in trial and appellate courts around the country. He has been repeatedly named a Minnesota Super Lawyer and has been named a Top 40 Intellectual Property Super Lawyer by Minnesota Law and Politics.

USPTO Throws in the Towel in Dispute With Federal Judge

In an earlier post, we discussed at length the curious case of The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama and Paul W. Bryant, Jr. v. Houndstooth Mafia Enterprises LLC et al.   Surprisingly, this dispute came to an abrupt end when the USPTO dropped…