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Patent Litigation

Patent litigation that pairs courtroom advocacy with real engineering fluency, defending and enforcing your patents in federal district court, the ITC, and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Patent disputes turn on technical detail, and we read code and schematics before we read case law. Our attorneys came up as software engineers, so we can take apart a claim chart, an accused product, and a prior-art reference without a translator. That lets us build infringement and validity positions that hold up under cross-examination and make sense to a judge or jury.

Strategy Built Around Your Business

Winning a motion is not the goal; getting you the commercial result you need is. We start by mapping the dispute to what you actually want, whether that is an injunction, a license on your terms, freedom to keep shipping, or a clean exit. From there we shape claim construction, discovery, and trial themes around that outcome rather than chasing every issue the docket offers.

Federal Court, ITC, and PTAB

We handle infringement actions in federal district courts nationwide, Section 337 investigations at the International Trade Commission, inter partes and post-grant review before the PTAB, and appeals to the Federal Circuit. We coordinate these forums deliberately, using a PTAB challenge or an ITC exclusion threat to change the leverage in a parallel district court case rather than running each track in isolation.

Technology We Speak Natively

Software, semiconductors, networking, telecommunications, and connected hardware are home turf for us. Because we have built and shipped technology ourselves, we get up to speed on a new system fast and can tell a clean, accurate story about how it works. That technical credibility shapes how we pick experts, frame claim terms, and decide which fights are worth having.

Frequently asked questions

Plan on 2 to 4 years from filing to trial in district court, though many cases settle or end on summary judgment well before that. If you go to the ITC, expect a faster 15 to 18 months, and PTAB proceedings usually wrap up in 12 to 18 months. Your timeline depends heavily on the venue and how aggressively both sides litigate.

You can sue where the defendant resides, where it has a regular and established place of business, or where it committed acts of infringement. The Supreme Court's TC Heartland decision tightened these rules, so cases are now concentrated in fewer districts than they used to be. We help you pick the venue that fits your case, not just the one that's convenient.

It comes down to what you want. District court can get you damages and an injunction, while the PTAB only decides whether the patent is valid. In many cases the smart move is to use both forums together, with the PTAB attacking validity while the court pursues the remedies you actually need.

A successful patent owner can get an injunction, lost profits or a reasonable royalty, and enhanced damages of up to three times the award when infringement is willful. In exceptional cases the court can also order the other side to pay your attorneys' fees. Which of these is realistic depends on your patent, the market, and the defendant's conduct.

We run an early case assessment that looks at claim construction, prior art, the infringement evidence, likely validity defenses, and what the damages might actually be. That gives you a clear read on the odds and a realistic budget before you spend serious money. It's far cheaper to find a weak spot now than after two years of litigation.

Sometimes. Courts can award attorneys' fees in "exceptional" cases, usually involving litigation misconduct or positions that were objectively baseless. Fee awards are discretionary and never automatic, so they're a possibility to weigh, not something to count on.

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