Patent Reexamination and Patent Reissue as Litigation Tools
Insulating Your Patent Portfolio From New Threats
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide patent counsel with an overview of the current USPTO's Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) and patent litigation landscape with an eye toward emerging trends and challenges for patent owners. The panel will offer best practices to minimize the threat of post-grant patent challenges as well as prosecution strategies to strengthen and/or insulate patent portfolios from PTAB attack.
Outline
- Preparing for the fight
- The monetization landscape
- Rehabilitating the asset
- Reissue
- What can you do, when, and how long?
- Mechanics
- Downsides?
- PTAB overlap, considerations
- What can you do, when, and how long?
- Reexamination
- What can you do, when, and how long?
- Mechanics
- Downsides?
- PTAB overlap, considerations
- What can you do, when, and how long?
- Reissue
- Rehabilitating the asset
- Parallel proceedings before the USPTO
- Litigation tactics
- The monetization landscape
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- How can patent owners utilize these proceedings to lessen the PTAB threat?
- What does reexamination offer to challengers in the PTAB world?
- Which proceeding is the best path to a goal that might be reached by either option?
Faculty
Kevin B. Laurence
Partner
Laurence & Phillips
Mr. Laurence has been included in IAM’s list of leading post-grant practitioners every year since... | Read More
Mr. Laurence has been included in IAM’s list of leading post-grant practitioners every year since 2012. He has taught a course as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School on post-grant patent practice since 2015. Mr. Laurence served as an instructor for the Patent Resources Group in three-day courses on post-grant proceedings held biannually during 2009–2019 and is a co-author of a two-volume treatise titled Post-Grant Patent Practice provided in conjunction with the courses. Best Lawyers in America named him 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” in Patent Law for Washington, D.C.
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Scott A. McKeown
Shareholder
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks
Mr. McKeown is a shareholder with Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks in Washington D.C. and a professorial Lecturer in... | Read More
Mr. McKeown is a shareholder with Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks in Washington D.C. and a professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School. Named one of the world’s leading patent practitioners for post-grant proceedings by Intellectual Asset Management, he is one of the most active PTAB trial attorneys in the U.S., having handled more than 400 PTAB matters, including those in which more than $500 million was at stake. Mr. McKeown currently serves as lead post-grant counsel to some of the world’s best-known innovators, and is the editor of the award-winning blog PatentsPostGrant.com.
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