Total Credits: 1 CLE
Unlike most patent systems around the world, in the United States parties have the opportunity to use numerous specialty proceedings at the United States Patent & Trademark Office to strengthen their own issued patents, to challenge the validity of third party patents, and to determine ownership of inventions. This program will detail these specialty proceedings, discuss their pros and cons, and outline best strategies to use them to maximize client goals.
Faculty:
Andrew P. Zappia, Troutman Pepper LLP
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Cory Smith is a registered patent attorney whose practice focuses on intellectual property law and technology transactions, with an emphasis on computer-related technologies. He has extensive experience in patent preparation and prosecution, patent litigation and pre-litigation, post-grant proceedings, patent analysis and counseling (including tear-down, freedom-to-operate, invalidity, and infringement opinions), trademark preparation and prosecution, trademark counseling, trademark disputes, copyright preparation and prosecution, and copyright disputes.
Mr. Smith regularly handles patent matters in the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions in many areas of technology, including computer software, computer hardware, cloud computing, cryptography, computer networking, data communications, robotics, electronics, sensing systems, imaging, artificial intelligence, simulators, data science applications, machine learning, block chain, cybersecurity, virtual reality, payment services, financial technology, agricultural technology, e-commerce technology, mobile applications, business applications, business methods, mechanical devices, construction materials, sports equipment, toys, and consumer goods.
He has handled many technology transactions, including negotiating software acquisitions and licenses, handling intellectual property and software aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions, and performing due diligence. Mr. Smith also has extensive experience handling open source software issues. Additionally, he has handled various pro bono matters, including assisting nonprofits with intellectual property issues and representing low-income parents in severance and adoption proceedings.
Mr. Smith has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering. His technical experience includes a position as an engineer at IBM, where he designed and developed data storage systems.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Smith served as a law clerk for the Honorable A. John Pelander at the Arizona Supreme Court. During law school, he served as managing editor of the Arizona Law Review and as secretary of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Mr. Smith also served as an extern for the Honorable Paul E. Tang of the Pima County Superior Court.
Andrew P. Zappia is a Partner and the Practice Group Leader of the Health Care and Life Sciences IP Group at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP. He focuses his patent dispute practice on inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the PTAB, district court litigations, and arbitrations relating to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices. He is experienced in the full array of issues that arise in connection with intellectual property disputes, including patent, trademark, and copyright protection and infringement; International Trade Commission proceedings; and antitrust issues. He focuses his transactional practice on national and international M&A and licensing deals in the biotech industry. Additionally, Andrew has an active abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) patent litigation practice. He has served as lead counsel in more than two dozen ANDA litigations in the U.S. and has coordinated international patent enforcement strategies in Europe, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. Many of these matters have involved billion-dollar drug products. Andrew also hosts a podcast on post-issuance practice before the USPTO. Andrew is originally from New York and obtained his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and his law degree from the University of Virginia. He has been recognized in the Best Lawyers in America, Legal 500, and Super Lawyer rankings. In his spare time, he is working on obtaining his Italian citizenship and travels there frequently.
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