Jeffrey Kushan

Practice Areas

JEFF KUSHAN is a partner in Sidley’s Washington D.C. Office, and a global coordinator of Sidley’s national IP Litigation practice.

Jeff focuses his practice on district court litigation, patent appeals, and contested proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). In each setting, Jeff leverages his deep scientific and patent law knowledge to devise strategies that deliver winning results for his clients. Jeff’s cases have involved a diverse array of technologies, including groundbreaking immunotherapy and antibody products, biotechnology production methods, secure networking technologies and consumer electronics. Jeff has extensive experience before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, serving as lead counsel in more than 230 PTAB proceedings and arguing more than 25 times before the Board. Jeff also has represented numerous clients in patent appeals before the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court, and has authored more than a dozen amicus briefs for companies and trade associations before those courts. Jeff also serves as an adjunct professor at the George Washington Law school and is a trade policy advisor to the USTR and Department of Commerce.