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# Kelley Drye Wins Managing Intellectual Property ​“Patent Case of the Year” Award

 April 24, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Managing Intellectual Property* selected Kelley Drye for the ​“Patent Case of the Year” award for its role in the *Tafas v. Dudas* case. The award is part of *Managing Intellectual Property*​’s 2009 North American Awards and the magazine will publish this news in their May 2009 issue. Kelley Drye represented Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas in his lawsuit with GlaxoSmithKline to void the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s new rules for unexamined patent applications.

 

 

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