Despite Irell & Manella’s conservative size and footprint – around 130 lawyers and just two offices in Southern California – the law firm has built a multinational brand that attracts some of the best ...

If the Washington, DC rumor mill is correct Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will soon announce that Andrei Iancu will be the next Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of ...

On Friday, August 25, 2017, the Trump Administration announced several nominations, one of which was the nomination of Andrei Iancu to be the next Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property ...

“The question that remains for patent industry observers is whether the Federal Circuit will ultimately agree with what Director Iancu is doing in order to implement predictability.” The Global ...

Yesterday, with the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 46th president of the United States, Andrei Iancu, the director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) since February 2018, logged ...

Andrei Iancu got plenty of respect from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday in his first appearance before the court since serving as U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 29th, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing to consider the nomination of four political appointees from the Trump Administration. Included ...

Andrei Iancu is leaving an extremely lucrative position as Managing Partner at Irell to make his mark upon the patent system as Director for a salary that many in his wage bracket would consider a ...

“In a place where Congress spoke expressly and it’s in the statute, it seems that the better course of action is for Congress to address it.” – Andrei Iancu Former Director of the U.S. Patent and ...

The US Supreme Court has handed down its ruling in Iancu v Brunetti, holding that the Lanham Act’s prohibition on the registration of “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks violates the First Amendment.

DC will be Irell's first office beyond L.A. region Firm shed practices last year to focus on IP and litigation (Reuters) - Irell & Manella is capitalizing on its bench of former officials from the U.S ...

In permitting the registration of the “vulgar” term FUCT, the Supreme Court recently extended its 2016 ruling from Matal v. Tam, which allowed the registration of the trademark THE SLANTS for an Asian ...