Gregory Corbett

Practice Areas

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:

Litigation

Chemical & Materials Technologies

Pharmaceutical

Post-Grant Proceedings

ITC Litigation

Appellate Litigation

Career

Greg Corbett is the Chair of Wolf Greenfield’s Litigation Practice and a Shareholder in the firm’s Litigation and Post-Grant Proceedings Practices with 25 years of experience, including as lead litigation counsel representing clients in all stages of complex intellectual property and patent litigation, post-grant proceedings, appellate proceedings, licensing, and client counseling.

Greg is a first-chair litigator with extensive experience litigating in multiple jurisdictions, including the District of Delaware, the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Western, Eastern, and Northern Districts of Texas, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California, the Northern District of Illinois, the District of Columbia, and the District of Massachusetts.

Greg has also been actively involved in multiple inter partes review (IPR) and other post-grant proceedings before the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Greg also has extensive appellate experience, including as lead appellate counsel, and has been involved in more than 15 appeals before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the US Supreme Court.

Greg has experience representing clients in cases involving a wide range of technologies, and in particular, his practice has focused on electronics, computer systems, software, smartphone, semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing technology, microcontrollers, and internet technology. He also has extensive experience involving chemical products and processes, as well as pharmaceuticals, biotech, and medical device matters.

Greg has been to trial many times, including as lead counsel in four recent trials before the ITC (multi-patent investigations involving computer system technologies), a successful jury trial in the District of Delaware, and successful trials in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Northern District of California.

As lead counsel, Greg has handled opening statements and closing arguments, examined primary expert and corporate witnesses before juries, has successfully argued summary judgment and dispositive motions, and has successfully argued at Markman hearings.

Prior to joining Wolf Greenfield, Greg was a partner at an Am Law 10 law firm, where he had more than 10 years of patent and IP litigation experience.

Prior to that, he clerked for the Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Honorable Edward F. Harrington in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

While in law school, Greg was the Executive Editor of the Boston College Law Review.

Education