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	03/10/2010 McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorney’s Article Selected for Patent Law Review 2010
	CHICAGO, IL – March 10, 2010 – A patent law article by McAndrews, Held & Malloy Shareholder Christopher V. Carani has been selected as one of the 20 best law review articles of 2009 for inclusion in the Thomson Reuters (West) Patent Law Review 2010. The article explores the current state of design patent infringement law. Carani’s article, “The New ‘Extra-Ordinary’ Observer Test for Design Patent Infringement – On a Crash Course with the Supreme Court’s Precedent in Gorham v. White,” was first published in The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law at 8 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 354 (2009). Specifically, Carani’s article discusses in depth the potential tensions between recent Federal Circuit design patent decisions and the 135-year-old Supreme Court precedent in Gorham v. White. According to the article, the Gorham Court’s “ordinary observer” test, administered through the eyes of men generally, and the policy behind this test are potentially threatened by recent Federal Circuit design patent decisions. In the article, Carani provides suggestions for how these potential conflicts can be averted. The Patent Law Review is a collection of the best articles from the past year on current critical patent law issues. Contributors include leading law professors and patent litigators and prosecutors from law firms and corporations. Articles are sourced from law school reviews, specialty journals and bar association journals nationwide. Carani is nationally recognized in the field of design law, which is the focus of his practice. He has litigated numerous disputes regarding design rights and has served as a consultant and expert witness in design law cases. Carani has lectured and published extensively on issues relating to design law and recently was selected to present his program "Looks Matter: How to Protect Your Product Designs While Creating Valuable Assets" at NeoCon 2010. NeoCon is the contract furnishing industry’s premier event and North America’s largest conference and exhibition for interior design and facilities management. ### About McAndrews, Held & Malloy Founded in 1988, McAndrews, Held & Malloy is one of the nation’s preeminent legal resources on intellectual property, antitrust and technology matters, serving institutions ranging from major multinationals and start-ups to world-class colleges and universities. The firm’s technically trained attorneys have built an unparalleled record of litigation successes in jury trials, bench trials and ADR proceedings. In addition, McAndrews offers its clients services in the following areas: patent and trademark procurement and portfolio management, patent interferences, trademark oppositions and cancellations, international practice, intellectual property/technology opinions and investigations, due diligence and M&A support, technology licensing and joint ventures, and technology transfers and donations. Additional information can be found at http://www.mcandrews-ip.com. CONTACT: Randy Labuzinski / Amy Magro Healy & Schulte 312/765-8770 rlabuzinski@healyandschulte.com