Joseph E. Palys
Partner
Joe Palys practices litigation, prosecution, and client counseling in the software, business method, financial services, computer, network, and electro-mechanical technology areas. He leans on his nearly two decades of patent prosecution experience to counsel small to very large clients on prosecution, reexamination, portfolio management, and pre-litigation strategies, as well as to provide opinions regarding infringement, validity, and product clearances.
Mr. Palys also represents clients in patent infringement litigations that involve complex technologies such as digital signal processing, computer architechtures, Internet technologies, operating systems, and business software.
Highlights
- Represents BIAX Corporation in patent infringement litigation relating to microprocessor technologies.
- Represents SAP, a worldwide leader in business software, in patent infringement litigation relating to supply chain software.
- Represented AeroScout in patent infringement litigation involving remote sensor technologies.
- Represented AOL, LLC in multiple patent infringement litigations involving content filtering software.
- Represented BIAX Corporation in a number of litigations involving parallel and microprocessor technologies.
- Represented Corel in patent infringement litigation relating to computer system initialization technologies.
- Defended SAP in a patent infringement action involving supply chain and supplier relationship business software.
- Represents patent owners and third party requesters in ex parte and inter parte reexaminations before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
- Former supervisory patent examiner (SPE) and primary examiner at the USPTO where he examined patent applications involving computer network security, computer fault tolerance and recovery, and error detection technologies, 1993-2000.
- Former Sergeant, U.S. Army Reserves, 1st Battalion, 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division, 1987-1995.
Professional Activities
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- American Bar Association
- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property