Knobbe Martens Intellectual Property Law - USPTO Ex Parte Patent
Proceedings
Given our extensive experience and track record of proven success, we
are uniquely qualified to assist clients in various ex parte
proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). By
applying our diverse legal and technical backgrounds, we provide
strategic counseling and aggressive litigation services that advance
both our clients’ offensive and defensive goals—always with a keen
understanding of how ex parte proceedings are intertwined with various
litigation, enforcement, and licensing strategies. We have
successfully assisted a wide variety of clients in numerous industries
in reexamination, reissue, and supplemental examination proceedings to
strengthen a patent’s validity prior to litigation or to preempt an
attack on a patent. Defensively, we use ex parte reexaminations to
defer litigation costs, challenging a patent’s validity, and/or gain
leverage during licensing negotiations. We wisely use ex parte
proceedings to quickly and cost-effectively advance our clients’
strategic interests.