Divided Patent Infringement and Inducement: Protecting IP Rights and Allocating Liability

Dr. Browning focuses on patent litigation and appeals. He has led teams as first chair at trial, at Markman proceedings, and on appeal. His litigation experience includes taking and cross examining witnesses at trial, briefing and arguing dispositive motions, drafting appellate briefs, and arguing cases on appeal. He has also managed day-to-day litigation activities in actions involving multiple parties. In addition, he advises clients on patent matters, including coordination of prosecution and U.S. and foreign litigation strategy.

Mr. Irving has 47 years of experience in the field of IP law. His practice includes due diligence, patent prosecution, reissue and reexamination, patent interferences, and counseling, including prelitigation, Orange Book listings of patents covering FDA-approved drugs, and infringement and validity analysis in the chemical fields, as well as litigation. He has served as lead counsel in many patent interferences.

Dr. Rudolph has successfully litigated complex Hatch-Waxman Paragraph IV Abbreviated New Drug Application and biotechnology cases over the past twenty years. She serves as lead counsel in pharmaceutical and biotechnology disputes and has extensive litigation experience in federal courts. She has argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and authored an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark biotechnology patent case. She devises strategies to protect clients' valuable intellectual property involving sophisticated technologies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Mr. Schaffner focuses his practice on district court litigation, proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He represents clients  across a wide spectrum of technologies, including consumer electronics, software architectures, semiconductors, quantum computing, machine learning, and nanotechnology. He has experience with all phases of patent litigation, including developing trial strategies, claim construction, motions practice, depositions, fact discovery, expert discovery, jury trial, and appeal. He has represented both petitioners and patent owners in dozens of post-grant proceedings before the PTAB. His prosecution practice focuses on technologies involving complex mathematical, computational, and physics-based phenomena.