Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is a full-service international law firm with more than 500 attorneys in eighteen offices across the globe: Atlanta and Augusta, GA; Oakland, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco and Walnut Creek, CA; Denver, CO; Washington, DC; Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC; New York, NY; Seattle, WA; Tokyo, Japan; Stockholm, Sweden; Taipei, Taiwan and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Kilpatrick Townsend's delivery of innovative business solutions provides results-oriented counsel for corporations, from the challenging demands of financial transactions and securities to the disciplines of intellectual property management. Collaboration among Kilpatrick Townsend's corporate, tax, employment and employee benefit attorneys provides knowledgeable and proactive guidance for companies at every stage of the business life cycle.

Civil Trial and Appellate Practice in all State and Federal Courts, Federal State and Local Taxation, Real Estate, Capital Markets, Environmental, Corporate, Financial Restructuring, Securities, Banking Commercial, Antitrust, Labor, Employment, Bankruptcy, Construction, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, Professional Malpractice, Products Liability and Negligence Law, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Entrepreneurial Development, State Lobbying and Political Compliance, Personal Injury.

PTO Proposes Rules for New Post Grant Proceedings
Charles W. Calkins,Wendy A. Choi,Paul C. Haughey,Wab P. Kadaba,Michael S. Pavento, February 10, 2012
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) published three Notices of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the implementation of the inter partes review (IPR) (Changes to Implement Inter Partes Review Proceedings), post grant review (PGR) (Changes to Implement Post-Grant Review Proceedings), and...

The NLRB Further Paves the Way for Mini-Bargaining Units
John W. Alden,Randall D. Avram,Richard D. Haygood,Corena A. Norris-McCluney,Susan W. Pangborn,Michael T. Rosenberg, February 2, 2012
The National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) continues to pave the way for unions to organize relatively small, narrowly defined groups of employees (“mini-bargaining units”) within an employer’s workforce. When a union requests an election to establish its status...

NLRB Decision Finding Arbitration Agreement Unlawful Affects Unionized and Non-Unionized Employers Alike
John W. Alden,Jill S. Cox,Richard D. Haygood,Robert G. Hensley, January 13, 2012
The National Labor Relations Board (the "NLRB" or the “Board”) has ruled that a mandatory arbitration agreement preventing employees from pursuing class or collective claims against their employer is unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or the...

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