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Perkins Coie’s IP practice includes more than 250 lawyers focused on IP litigation, post-grant proceedings, patent and trademark prosecution, strategic portfolio counseling, technology licensing, copyrights, and trade secret and unfair competition counseling. Its clients include companies in all technologies and industries around the world. The IP practice has extensive experience litigating patent and trademark infringement actions, internet disputes, trade secret, and gray market and anti-counterfeiting claims for companies in the online, biotechnology, medical products and electronics industries. More than 175 of Perkins Coie’s attorneys have degrees in electrical engineering, computer science and life sciences-related fields. Perkins Coie’s clients benefit from its interdisciplinary approach to matters, which combines extensive legal and technical experience with strong corporate and litigation resources in a leading technology law firm.

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Intellectual Property: Patent Trial and Appeal Board - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Perkins Coie is highly active in the representation of global clients in the pharmaceutical and technology spaces before the USPTO and also noted for its capabilities in patent-based transactions. The group is supported by a litigation team with an enviable trial record before the PTAB and Federal Circuit. The firm frequently handles complex patent appeals before the Federal Circuit and is also noted for its handling of post-grant proceedings. The team fields additional expertise in copyright, trademark and trade secrets issues.

Work Highlights

  • Perkins Coie represented Inari in a med-tech, multi-patent infringement dispute against Imperative Care in Northern District of California.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Dan L Bagatell
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Dan L Bagatell
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Dan Bagatell has impressive experience in complex Federal Circuit patent appeals, typically acting for hi-tech and pharmaceutical industry companies.

Dan is creative, clear and responsive from the podium and in his briefs.

Nathan Kelley
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Nathan Kelley
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Nathan Kelley co-chairs the firm's Federal Circuit patent appeals practice. He handles high profile patent litigation appeals, IPRs at the PTAB, and related USPTO work for notable clients in the technology and pharmaceutical industries.

Nate knows the patent law intimately and has very deep experience before the Federal Circuit.

Nate Kelley has significant experience arguing in front of the Federal Circuit and is well-known to the judges.

Nathan is a first-class lawyer, with an impeccable reputation in the patent litigation space.

Jessica Kaiser
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Jessica Kaiser
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Jessica Kaiser is a cochair of the firm's post-grant practice. She often represents industry leaders of the tech sector before the PTAB, with a strong emerging technology and software practice.

Jessica brings an extraordinary amount of experience and provides great counsel.

Jess is the cream of the crop for post-grant review. She has unparalleled knowledge of the inner workings of the PTAB combined with strong commercial instincts.

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USA - Nationwide

Intellectual Property: Appellate

Dan L Bagatell
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Dan L Bagatell
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Nathan Kelley
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Nathan Kelley
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Intellectual Property: Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Jessica Kaiser
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Jessica Kaiser
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