In an eagerly anticipated en banc decision involving the proper standard for assessing when a claimed design is obvious, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overruled the Rosen-Durling test that courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have been applying for nearly 30 years, calling…

Dentons announced on Wednesday that former Ernst & Young global vice chair Kate Barton will become the firm’s next global CEO. Barton will replace Elliot Portnoy, who ends his term as global CEO in November. Portnoy has been the firm’s only global CEO since the 2013 combination of SNR Denton,…

After a two-week federal district court trial in Tampa, a jury hearing a dispute between USI Insurance Services and Lockton, a large national insurance brokerage firm and competitor, has returned a verdict. The jury found that Lockton had interfered with non-solicitation contracts and aided and abetted breaches of fiduciary duty…

Clifford Chance’s U.S. revenue has spearheaded a set of positive financial results at the firm, with all three metrics experiencing growth, the firm announced in its yearly financial results. The results showed that overall revenue continued to rise for the ninth consecutive year, with a 9% rise pushing the figure to £2.3…

Bob Bodian, who first took the reins at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo in 2009, has been elected to his sixth consecutive three-year term as firm managing partner, one that Bodian said will be his last. Bodian, now approaching 70, is already the longest-serving managing partner in the firm’s…

Latham & Watkins, Slaughter and May and Clifford Chance are among the firms to have taken key roles on the latest private equity deals in the U.K. and Europe. Property group Hammerson announced on Wednesday it had sold off the £1.5 billion stake it held in Bicester Village owners, Value Retail,…