Innovations often run aground on competitors’ patents. They don’t have to. The creative legal strategies developed by Foley Hoag’s PTAB Proceedings practice enable innovative companies to avoid patent traps and bring new products and services to market quickly and cost effectively.
Foley Hoag’s lawyers have decades of experience addressing patent-related obstacles quickly and cost-effectively from both sides of the table—patent holder and potential infringer. We have represented clients attempting to invalidate patents and those protecting their patent rights. Our patent post grant lawyers are skilled at integrating post grant proceedings into clients’ overall business and IP strategies. Foley Hoag serves clients through offices in Boston, New York, Paris and Washington D.C..
Our post grant practice has developed special expertise in the new tools for patent challenges created by the America Invents Act (AIA), which empowered the U.S. Patent Office to rule on matters once settled in district court. The AIA offers faster resolutions, but also tightened procedural rules and deadlines. That makes experienced legal counsel even more critical to ensuring favorable outcomes.
Among the patent post grant proceedings practice’s areas of expertise are:
- Inter Partes Review,
- Ex parte Reexamination,
- Interferences/Derivation,
- Supplemental Examination, and
- Covered Business Method Patent Review.
Foley Hoag patent attorneys have helped clients initiate reexamination of patents—third parties’ and their own—for a wide range of technologies, from software systems to medical devices. We have extensive experience filing successful reexamination requests with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and we have also built a strong track record of defeating problematic patents. We have also been successful in defending our clients’ challenged patents.
In addition, our extensive representation of parties in interference proceedings which are procedurally nearly identical to the new AIA post grant proceedings, provides the experience necessary to strategically navigate the new post grant legal proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
Our experience in patent post grant proceedings gives you another cost-effective option to enforce the patent laws in a way that makes sense for you.
