Nathan Speed assists the firm in patent litigation and post-grant review matters. Nathan has experience litigating patent cases in federal district courts across the country, including in the District of Massachusetts, the Southern District of New York, the District of Delaware, as well as the United States International Trade Commission and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
View profile(as published by Law360) On Feb. 19, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Return Mail Inc. v. U.S. Postal Service. The question before the court was whether the government is a “person”...
While the Board recognizes that its rules do not require petitioners to take “positions consistent with related cases in different fora,” a recent IPR decision illustrates the risks a petitioner faces...
One strategy that a patent owner can pursue in an IPR trial is to file a motion to amend seeking to replace one or more of the challenged claims with substitute claims that neither enlarge the scope o...
Collateral estoppel, or issue preclusion, is the legal doctrine that bars a litigant from re-litigating in subsequent litigations an issue that it lost in an earlier litigation. The doctrine had been ...