Filing Optional Reply Briefs Significantly Improves IPR Results, Law360
Law360 published Armond Wilson’s statistical analysis showing that filing optional briefs in IPR proceedings can fundamentally impact outcomes.
Michelle Armond Honored As A 2020 “IP Star” By Managing IP
Partner Michelle Armond was recognized as a 2020 IP Star by Managing Intellectual Property.
Michelle Armond Speaks On Leading A Boutique Firm in Uncertain Times
Michelle Armond was featured in April in the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s Leadership In the Profession podcast series.
PTAB Precedent Lays Out Method for Weighing Secondary Evidence, Bloomberg Law
Secondary considerations like commercial success don’t “mean a whole lot unless there’s some tie between the claimed invention and that success,” Doug Wilson, a patent attorney at Armond Wilson LLP, said.
What Happens at The Board Does Not Stay at The Board: How Patent Owners Can Leverage IPR Proceedings in Litigation, IP Watchdog
IPWatchDog featured Armond Wilson’s expert analysis examining how patent owners can leverage IPR proceedings in litigation.
Remote Work May Change Attorneys’ Habits After Pandemic, Bloomberg Law
Many depositions are still conducted in a “very archaic fashion,” said Doug Wilson, a trial attorney at Armond Wilson LLP. “I’m hopeful that in a situation like this, people will start to think about whether that makes sense anymore.”
PTAB’s Precedent Tightens Prior Art Guidelines in Validity Trials, Bloomberg Law
Scenarios in which parties try to invalidate patent claims with prior art used by examiners in granting the intellectual property protection come up “all the time,” Armond Wilson LLP co-founder Michelle Armond said.
Patent Litigation Sees ‘Exponential’ Changes Amid Coronavirus, Bloomberg Law
Attorneys will have to adjust to presenting their case without a full array of visual presentations and handouts that would be available in courtroom, said Armond Wilson LLP trial attorney Doug Wilson. “Over the phone your ability to communicate is very one dimensional and it is very limited,” Wilson said.
Patent Office to Hold Remote Meetings ‘Until Further Notice,’ Bloomberg Law
The final in-person oral hearing that happens at the end of an inter partes review “is going to be an absolute mess,” said Michelle Armond, co-founder of the intellectual property litigation firm Armond Wilson LLP…. Attorneys may have to change their strategy for telephonic proceedings [in view of the coronavirus], Armond said.
$1.1 Billion CalTech Infringement Win Shows Patent Board Perils, Bloomberg Law
Even when an accused infringer can’t convince jurors an invention is obvious, simply making those arguments and showing them the evidence can change their perception of the technology’s value, intellectual property attorney Douglas Wilson said. “The value goes down in the jurors’ minds when they get to see how close the prior art was,” Wilson, a founding partner of Armond Wilson LLP, said.