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Darren M. Jiron
Partner
Darren Jiron focuses on patent litigation and strategic development of patent portfolios. He has represented clients in all phases of patent litigation before numerous U.S. district courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Mr. Jiron's experience includes having lead roles in pre-filing investigations, discovery, motions practice, and examining witnesses at trial. He has taken numerous depositions, drafted summary judgment and claim construction briefs, and has argued claim construction positions in court. Mr. Jiron has prepared and filed numerous ex parte and inter partes reexamination requests, successfully argued before the Board of Appeals and Patent Interferences of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and has extensive experience in the strategic use of patent reexamination in litigation.
With a special interest in helping clients develop strong patent portfolios and strategic plans for navigating the patent landscape, he is skilled in defensive and offensive patent portfolio assessment, patent validity and infringement opinions, product clearance studies, patent portfolio management, patent license negotiation, and patent prosecution.
Mr. Jiron's practice encompasses a wide range of technology areas, including semiconductor design and fabrication, display devices, mobile telephone design and operation, advanced materials, batteries, optics, imaging systems, power inverters, and control systems. He also has worked extensively in the area of solid state lighting devices and applications.
Highlights
- Represented HTC before the ITC in the enforcement of several patents relating to user interface technology.
- In re Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp Inverter Circuits, 337-TA-666 (ITC). Defended Monolithic Power Systems in a patent infringement investigation relating to power inverter technology.
- In re Short Wavelength Semiconductor Lasers, 337-TA-627 (ITC). Represented Seoul Semiconductor in the enforcement of a patent relating to short wavelength laser diodes.
- Defended various Sony entities in multiple patent infringement lawsuits involving electronic technologies.
- Defended various LG entities in multiple patent infringement lawsuits involving mobile telephones and display technologies.
- Honeywell International, Inc. v. Audiovox Corp. (D. Del). Defended Nikon in a patent infringement suit involving liquid crystal displays.
- Served as a patent examiner at the USPTO focused on technology including radiant energy and semiconductor-based imaging and detecting devices, 1997-1999.
- Worked as a project engineer engaged in research and development of advanced materials systems, composites, controls systems, and electro-mechanical devices, 1994-1997.
Professional Activities
- Virginia Bar Association (Intellectual Property Section Council member)
- Virginia State Bar Association
- American Bar Association (Section on Intellectual Property Law)
- American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
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