Dowd Scheffel is pleased to report a major victory for its client @pizza, a U.K.-based pizza business, in a litigation involving claims of copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and trespass. Our client @pizza was sued by D.C.-based &pizza in D.C., despite the fact that our client operates only in the United Kingdom. Dowd Scheffel sought dismissal of the claims, and Judge Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the motion in large part

Dowd Scheffel filed a petition for rehearing en banc in an important patent case concerning patent eligibility under Section 101 of patent law. The rehearing petition was highlighted on the leading patent blog, Patently-O, and was also covered by Law360. The Patently-O post is here. The Law360 article is here.