PTAB Trial Recalibration: The New Procedures, Best Practices and Proposals You Need to Know Now

Ms. Armond an intellectual property trial attorney litigating patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. IAM 1000 lauded her as “brilliant” and an “outstanding lawyer who ranks among the best PTAB specialists nationwide.” Her work encompasses inter partes review (IPR) and reexamination at the U.S. Patent Office, litigation in federal court, and appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.  A trained electrical engineer, she litigates disputes across many technologies, including electronics, software, mechanical, electro-mechanical, medical devices, and consumer goods.

Mr. Laurence has been included in IAM’s list of leading post-grant practitioners every year since 2012.  He has taught a course as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School on post-grant patent practice since 2015. Mr. Laurence served as an instructor for the Patent Resources Group in three-day courses on post-grant proceedings held biannually during 2009–2019 and is a co-author of a two-volume treatise titled Post-Grant Patent Practice provided in conjunction with the courses.  Best Lawyers in America named him 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” in Patent Law for Washington, D.C. 

Mr. McKeown is a shareholder with Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks in Washington D.C. and a professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School.  Named one of the world’s leading patent practitioners for post-grant proceedings by Intellectual Asset Management, he is one of the most active PTAB trial attorneys in the U.S., having handled more than 400 PTAB matters, including those in which more than $500 million was at stake. Mr. McKeown currently serves as lead post-grant counsel to some of the world’s best-known innovators, and is the editor of the award-winning blog PatentsPostGrant.com.