Technical and Industry Expertise

Patent Litigation Group lawyers are graduates of the nation’s top law schools, graduate schools and undergraduate universities, including Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Columbia, MIT, George Washington, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Northwestern, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ohio State University, the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago.

Patent Litigation Group lawyers have served as law journal editors and as law clerks in relevant jurisdictions, including:

• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• The U.S. International Trade Commission — two former Administrative Law Judge attorney-advisors

Patent Litigation Group lawyers have technical degrees:

• More than 15 have degrees in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, and Computer Science
• More than 10 have degrees in Biological Sciences and Chemistry
• Several have Master’s degrees in various engineering and science fields
• Several of our patent litigation attorneys also have actual industry work experience in the high technology industries that we serve, including:
  
  
  • Semiconductor Design (Advanced Micro Devices, Medtronic)
  • Equipment Manufacturing (Johnson Controls, Illinois Tool Company)
  • Biotechnology (IGEN (now Roche Diagnostics and BioVeris Corp.))
  • Pharmaceuticals (Guilford Pharmaceuticals, ProNeuron (now Wellstat))
  • Medical Devices (Medtronic)

Real world experience gives the Patent Litigation Group a keen understanding of the industries we serve, as well as a unique insight into the workings and concerns of our clients during the demanding process of patent litigation.