On March 17, Rob Sterne and Lori Gordon presented “Reexamination & Concurrent Patent Litigation in the District Courts and USITC” to more than thirty-five intellectual property law students at the George Washington University Law School.

Rob Sterne and Lori Gordon Present at GWU March 17, 2010 (Image Courtesy of George Washington University Law School)

Their hour long presentation included an initial discussion on the topic of  patent reexamination and concurrent patent litigation strategies — one of the most important and rapidly developing topics in patent enforcement in the United States — and concluded with a lively question and answer session.

Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law Studies John Whealan (former Solicitor of the USPTO and staffer to the Senate Judiciary Committee) was in attendance and asked questions relating to the time it takes to complete a reexamination (especially inter partes) and the quality of reexamination with regard to the recent ramp up in filings.  The seminar was well received and built on a similar presentation made by Rob Sterne to the GWU students in 2009.

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Reexamination and Concurrent Patent Litigation Law School Slide Deck

Schedule of Presentations

• George Washington University Law School, March 17, 2010, Washington, DC 12:00-1:00pm, Burns Hall (Rob G. Sterne and Lori A. Gordon)
• University of Maryland School of Law, April 6, 2010, Baltimore, MD 5:25 – 7:25pm Room 310 (Rob G. Sterne and Lori A. Gordon)
• University of Virginia School of Law, April 16, 2010, Charlottesville, VA 4:30pm, Room SL262 (Rob G. Sterne, Mark F. Evens, and Byron L. Pickard)
• George Mason University School of Law, April 14, 2010, Arlington VA, 12:00 – 1:00pm, Room 332 (Rob G. Sterne and Jon Wright)

Featured Publication

Robert Greene Sterne, Jon E. Wright, Lori A. Gordon, Reexamination Practice with Concurrent District Court Litigation or Section 337 USITC Investigations, 10 Sedona Conf. J. 115 (2009). Available on Westlaw Find by Citation: “10 SEDCJ 115″