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well i’ve practiced patent law for about
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30 years
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and in the second half of my career i
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focused on post-grant proceedings and
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built that on a foundation of
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prosecution work
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there was a case in 2008 in ray swanson
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that really boosted the importance of
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re-examination it
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really provided a second bite at the
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apple for a litigant as the
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implications that case unfolded
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re-examination really
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uh became much more important to
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litigation strategies and i was
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focusing on re-examination so
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uh that that had a big impact on my
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practice
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and then after the american events act
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passed in 2011 that had an even bigger
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impact and the central aspects of that
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went live in 20 september 2012 and then
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march 2013
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and so demand really
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exploded for those that had experience
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related to post-grant proceedings and in
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2013
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i left the partnership of a large
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regional general practice firm went to a
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large one of the largest patent
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boutiques in dc
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and there i focused exclusively on inner
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parties review proceedings and some
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other post-grant proceedings
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re-examination and reissue
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and that was uh an era where there were
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a lot of
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critical cases that were
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establishing the procedures that we now
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use for
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iprs and pgrs and in 2017
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matt phillips and i saw the need for a
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micro boutique that could work with
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litigation council
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and
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that’s been uh
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uh
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our practice now uh since then focusing
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on post-grant proceedings
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and
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also doing some prosecution work i also
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enjoyed teaching and writing about
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post-grant proceedings matt and i
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co-authored a treatise on re-examination
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and reissue practice in 2008 and that
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morphed into a treatise a two volume
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treatise on post-grant proceedings
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we provided that treatise in conjunction
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with cle courses that we taught for over
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a decade
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with the patent resources group also i
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started teaching a course on post-grant
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proceedings as an adjunct professor at
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the george washington university law
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school in 2015
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and i’ve enjoyed
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being a
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co-co-instructor for that course since
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then
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