POST-GRANT PROCEEDINGS

Our post-grant proceedings attorneys handle all aspects of post-issuance proceedings before the USPTO, for both patent owners and challengers. Benefiting from the strength of our patent prosecutors and litigators, we strategically assist clients with post-grant proceedings created by the America Invents Act (AIA), including inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR), as well as reissues, reexaminations, and supplemental examinations. 

Our attorneys have decades of experience handing post-grant proceedings, including in front of the  Patent Trial & Appeal Board (“Board”) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Our post-grant teams include attorneys both with litigation and patent-prosecution experience. Not only do we have the engineering and science backgrounds necessary to analyze complex inventions and prior art, but we have the litigation skills needed to effectively defend and depose expert witnesses, as well as the ability to persuasively present the case to the Administrative Patent Judges on the Board.

Our post-grant attorneys also work collaboratively with our patent litigators. Most often, a post-grant proceeding is but one battle in a larger patent war, likely involving patent litigation (sometimes in multiple jurisdictions) and perhaps other post-grant proceedings. We believe it is essential to keep the entire picture in mind, e.g., developing strategies that might result in stayed litigation or improved claim construction and non-infringement positions for patent challengers, or new patent claims that can be asserted against infringers for patent owners. Post-grant proceedings can also be extremely effective tools in driving settlement.