Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

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.

Georgia Once Again Allows Nonlawyers to File Responses to Garnishments
Thomas H. Christopher,John P. Jett,Chuck Rice,J. Henry Walker, February 10, 2012
As we reported in our September 28, 2011 Legal Alert, the Georgia Supreme Court held last year that only licensed Georgia attorneys could lawfully file a response to a garnishment summons filed against an entity (as opposed to an individual) in a Georgia state or superior court, thus adding expense...

Liability Insurers With Grounds Must Timely Disclaim Coverage Even While Investigating Claim George Campbell Painting v. Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa.
David L. Cox,Antoinette L. Ellison,Carl A. Salisbury, February 10, 2012
The First Department of the New York Appellate Division has now overruled its own precedent and joined the Second Department in holding that a New York insurance statute requires a liability insurance company to inform New York policyholders as soon as it believes it has grounds for denying...

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...