PLI’s Patent Litigation 2019: Advanced Techniques & Best Practices

IP partner Brent Hawkins will co-present “Strategies for Litigating Patents Concurrently in the District Court and PTAB” at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI)’s 2019 Patent Litigation 2019: Advanced Techniques & Best Practices.

This session will explore discuss best practices on complex issues such as content of patent owner responses, joinder and consolidation (and real party-in-interest issues), motions to amend, subject matter jurisdiction and other procedural issues, claim construction issues, presenting the most persuasive obviousness defenses, requests for rehearing, appellate review of AIA proceedings, and/or remand proceedings following a Federal Circuit appeal. In addition, the program will also address the effects of any such post-grant proceedings on parallel litigation including stays, as well as the potential effects on collateral estoppel, claim construction positions, willfulness charges, inequitable conduct claims, damages, and intervening rights.