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Our Patent Litigation Practice is one of the country’s most active and highly regarded. Our seasoned patent litigators bring extensive courtroom experience to every matter we handle. According to Lex Machina, we are among the top three national patent defense firms in the country for number of appearances and cases filed, and we also were the top national defense firm for number of patent trials in the last five years (2018–2022).
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The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) is an increasingly popular venue for patent infringement litigation. More and more companies are seeking to halt importations of infringing products into the United States by turning to the ITC for expedited relief. Section 337 investigations conducted by the ITC provide complainants with a “fast track” to remedy IP matters that typically go to trial within 10 months. Since many Section 337 cases go to trial, selecting an ITC litigation team with a command of the technology, patent law, and specialized procedural practice is extremely important. We have handled more than 100 cases before the ITC.
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Winston’s Intellectual Property (IP) Practice is one of the most active and highly regarded in the United States per Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation US, and Best Law Firms®, among other ranking organizations. Our team features some of the country’s best IP lawyers, attorneys with the technical abilities to litigate and try highly complex IP disputes, and technical lawyers who provide critical advisory services.
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Experience
|October 3, 2024
Drilling Tools International Corp. in its Acquisition of European Drilling Projects
Experience
|August 15, 2024
Winston Achieves Historic No-Damages Summary Judgment for Microsoft in Patent Case
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In the Media
|May 2, 2025
|2 Min Read
Mike Rueckheim Discusses Patent Office’s New Denial Process FAQ with Law360
Winston & Strawn partner Mike Rueckheim was quoted in a Law360 article discussing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s recently released answers to frequently asked questions about its new patent challenge denial process for post-grant (IPR/PGR) challenges. The USPTO recently established guidance and a bifurcated briefing process in which the Director, working alongside Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges, will decide whether each petition challenging a patent warrants discretionary denial. The board will consider the merits of the petition’s invalidity arguments only if it is not denied for discretionary reasons.
Client Alert
|May 2, 2025
|4 Min Read
On April 3, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum expounding upon the January 23, 2025 Executive Order (EO) 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, to put forth new requirements for the implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in U.S. federal agencies, with specific requirements where the AI use is considered “high impact.”
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|May 1, 2025
|1 Min Read
Winston & Strawn partner Kathi Vidal merited a place on World IP Review’s 2025 Diversity & Inclusion Top 100 list in the Influential Women in IP category. This annual list highlights honorees’ “dedication and commitment to driving meaningful change in the IP community.” Winners were selected through an in-depth evaluation of the nominees’ accomplishments carried out by World IP Review’s (WIPR) in-house team.
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In the product liability context, a design defect claim arises when a plaintiff alleges that a product is inherently dangerous due to its design, rendering it unreasonably unsafe for its intended use. This type of claim does not focus on manufacturing errors but instead asserts that the product's fundamental design flaw poses an unreasonable risk of harm to consumers.
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Colloquially referred to as the “patent dance,” the BPCIA provides a framework that includes certain steps and a schedule during which the applicant and reference product sponsor exchange confidential information disclosed in the aBLA. During the patent dance, the applicant and sponsor identify the patents that could be litigated in the future during two potential phases of litigation. In the first phase, the sponsor can allege infringement of a subset of the patents identified during the patent dance. The second phase begins after the sponsor receives the Notice of Commercial Marketing from the applicant. During this second phase, the sponsor can assert any remaining patents that were not asserted in the first phase.
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What Is the Patent Trial and Appeal Board?
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is a tribunal within U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The PTAB oversees trial proceedings, namely: inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review (PGR), covered business method (CBM) review, and derivation proceedings. The Board also hears appeals from adverse patentability decisions by patent examiners in original applications, reissues, and reexaminations. And, while phasing out since the passage of the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, the PTAB is also responsible for deciding interferences. The PTAB was previously referred to as the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and was renamed by the AIA.