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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is an important venue for resolving validity challenges because it generally takes less time to complete, it is a challenger-friendly forum, the cost is lower than litigating validity in court and the odds of success are far greater than in district court, as a general rule. Because PTAB challenge proceedings hold the potential for eliminating patent rights or at least streamlining infringement litigation, district courts regularly stay cases before them pending completion of co-pending PTAB proceedings.
Why Choose Us
- Our PTAB practice team has deep experience representing parties in administrative patent proceedings. Our collective experience litigating validity issues in district courts, before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and administrative challenge proceedings in the USPTO exceeds more than 250 matters.
- We provide legal representation in PTAB proceedings to patent challengers, as well as patent owners.
- Our team includes patent lawyers who regularly litigate patent validity issues in US district courts and the ITC, and other patent lawyers who regularly practice before the USPTO.
- Each of these professionals is a registered patent lawyer possessing a physical science or engineering degree (some have advanced degrees) along with considerable legal experience with validity or patentability issues.
- Our experience extends to a wide variety of technologies, such as many kinds of manufactured products (e.g., medical devices), machines, computer implemented inventions, communication systems and methods, industrial processes and chemical compositions.