Complimentary Webinar
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
2:00-3:00pm EDT
How do you respond when traditional approaches to patent searching do not locate the critical piece of invalidating art?
For litigators involved in high-stakes patent litigation, the strategic "next step" can be to engage a specialty search firm with access to obscure data sources to locate the relevant art in national and overseas archives, library collections and through sources only known to subject matter experts.
This webinar will provide you with a quick understanding of the "no stone left unturned” approach to IP research for high-stakes patent litigation, and when to engage a firm that will employ this approach to find, when other have failed, IP references with multi-million-dollar implications.
Topics covered will include the following:
- The "no stone left unturned" approach to investigative IP searching of traditional and non-traditional IP sources
- Case examples from the field in which a deeper level of IP research led to a favorable outcome in a litigation case
- Why the odds of finding critical records missed by examiners at the USPTO and other patent offices are so high using a "no stones left unturned" investigation
Featured Speaker: Tony Handel of Thompson Hine, who recently won a major case in Europe for a Fortune 50 multinational after using this research approach.
Tony Handel is a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property practice group. He focuses his practice on patent, trademark and copyright trial work, technology licensing, and related corporate matters, as well as the enforcement and procurement of intellectual property rights in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Over the past 30 years, Tony has served as lead counsel in over 180 intellectual property lawsuits with amounts at risk ranging up to $2 billion across multiple jurisdictions. He has experience representing clients from various technologies and industries, including pharmaceuticals, electronics, business methods, medical devices, software, molecular biology, biomedical systems, holography, apparel and retail. He currently teaches patent litigation strategy at the Patent Resources Group.
Prior to entering private practice, Tony served as an examiner in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where he ruled on communications electronics and color television patent applications.
