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Piatnicia Legal

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    • Post-Grant Proceedings
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Publications

Speeches And News

  • "Post Grant Proceedings Before the European Patent Office and the USPTO - Differences and Similarities Between the Proceedings."  Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association, presentation ("Latest in Post Grant Proceedings") & panel discussion, June 21, 2018.
  • "Post Grant Proceedings:  Focused Update with Practical Advice."  38th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, presentation & panel discussion, State Bar of California, Nov. 7, 2013.
  • "Glossary Discussion at U.S. PTO Software Partnership Meeting." Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, presentation & panel discussion, Oct. 17, 2013. 
  • "The Patent Office Comes to California."  State Bar of California, Intellectual Property Law Section, panelist on America Invents Act (post-grant proceedings), San Francisco, Apr. 13, 2012 & Feb. 26, 2013.
  • "Filing Patent Reexaminations – Useful Litigation Tool." Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association, presentation & panel discussion, Jan. 26, 2012.
  • "Nuts & Bolts of New and Not-So-Obvious Decisions on Anticipation and Obviousness." 35th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, presentation & panel discussion, State Bar of California, Oct. 28, 2010.
  • "EU Patent Enforcement and Defense – Strategic Considerations Including Comparisons with U.S. Patent Litigation."  American Corporate Counsel (ACC), San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, presentation & panel discussion, San Francisco & East Palo Alto, CA, Sept. 15/16, 2010.
  • "Your Company Will Likely Sue or Be Sued in an IP Matter; What Should You Do Now to Prepare for this Event? Practical Pre-litigation Issues:  Document Retention."  American Corporate Counsel Association, presentation & panel discussion, IP Committee, Palo Alto, CA, Feb. 24, 2009.
  • "Recent Ruling Calls Certain Business Patents Into Question."  San Jose Business Journal, Dec. 12, 2008.
  • "Preparing for a Markman Hearing."  The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, presentation & panel discussion, London, England, Nov. 19, 2007.
  • "ARM-Nazomi Patent Dispute Gets a Quick Decision."  Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, October 10, 2003.
  • "Optimization for Antenna Arrays in an Arbitrary Interference Environment."  Proceedings of the 1985 Antenna Applications Symposium, Robert Allerton Park, IL, University of Illinois.  


                 Articles: 

  • "Single-Judge Institution May Undermine Purpose of IPR."  Law360 (Sept. 25, 2015).
  • "Filing For Inter Partes Review After The 1-Year Deadline."  Law360 (April 30, 2013). 
  • "Patent Reviews:  Alternatives to Litigating Patent Validity."  New Matter, State Bar of California, Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer 2012.
  • "How to Achieve Success at Markman."  Managing Intellectual Property (Sept. 2008) at 53-55.
  • "The Road to a Successful Markman Hearing."  IP Law 360 (May 22, 2008).
  • "An Evaluation of the WIPO Draft Harmonization Treaty with Respect to Direct Infringement." Journal of International Law and Politics N.Y.U.J. Int’l L. & Pol., Vol. 26, No. 2 (1994) at 375-404.
  • "High-Temperature Superconducting Matching Networks for Electrically Short Monopole Antennas."  IEEE MTT-S Digest, (1993) at 1417-20.   
  • "Optimization for Antenna Arrays in an Arbitrary Interference Environment."  Proceedings of the 1985 Antenna Applications Symposium, Robert Allerton Park, IL, University of Illinois.

Downloads

Post Grant Proceedings Before the European Patent Office and the USPTO (pdf)Download
Post Grant Proceedings: Focused Update with Practical Advice (pdf)Download
Single-Judge Institution May Undermine Purpose of IPR (pdf)Download
Filing For Inter Partes Review After The 1-Year Deadline (pdf)Download
Patent Reviews: Alternatives to Litigating Patent Validity (pdf)Download
How to Achieve Success at Markman (pdf)Download

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