Design Patent Claims Amendment, Reissue, Validity Challenges: Recent Court Treatment and USPTO Guidance

Ms. Ferrill focuses her practice on all aspects of design patents, including prosecution, counseling, and litigation. She also has extensive experience in utility patent litigation in the areas of software- and hardware-related technologies. She counsels clients who hold design patents as well as those accused of infringement. She has experience with consumer and industrial products, graphical user interfaces and icons. She has prosecuted families of design patents before the USPTO, directed prosecution in foreign countries, and argued appeals before the PTAB. 

Mr. Raynal is an experienced patent attorney and his practice covers all aspects of design law, with a particular focus on U.S. and international design patent procurement and enforcement. He manages significant design rights portfolios for major electronics, automobile and heavy equipment manufacturers, helping them obtain robust design protection and enforce their rights against knock-offs.  He is also engaged in a variety of copyright, trademark and contract matters, including litigation and licensing. He is the vice-chair of the Industrial Design Committees of the AIPLA and the ABA-IPL, a member of the IPO Design Committee and a member of the INTA Brands and Innovation committee. He is also a Clinical Adjunct Professor in the Intellectual Property Law Clinic at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

Mr. Stockton advises clients on all aspects of intellectual property law, including tactical and strategic counseling, portfolio management, litigation and prosecution matters. His achievements include: prosecuting thousands of U.S. design patent applications before more than 100 USPTO examiners and managing thousands of foreign design applications in more than 100 jurisdictions and 140 countries; obtaining thousands of U.S. utility patents, trademark registrations, copyright registrations and foreign counterparts (through foreign counsel); serving as counsel of record in dozens of patent, trademark and copyright litigations, and assisting with many more IP litigations; litigating IPR petitions at the USPTO; prevailing in dozens of domain name arbitrations, and negotiating numerous no-decision settlements and acquisitions; and managing multiple IP portfolios with thousands of properties worldwide, coordinating the transfer of a >10,000 property portfolio and supervising buyer/seller IP due diligence in large acquisition and IPO contexts.