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Since working on the first ever post-grant review (PGR) of a covered business method (CBM) patent, Cory has represented patent owners and petitioners in over 200 post-grant review (PGR) and inter partes review (IPR) trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and in related matters before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit. He co-authored the American Bar Association's The Practitioner's Guide to Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and teaches a course he created on post-grant practice at the Suffolk University Law School.
Cory helps clients with various budgets and desired outcomes (e.g., portfolio or company sale, licensing, defensive posturing) to develop patent prosecution strategies and maximize their return on investments in research and development. A former patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), he has more than ten years of patent experience and has evaluated thousands of patents and patent applications for licensing, monetization, or sale; assisted in prosecuting hundreds of patent applications; managed patent portfolios; developed invention harvesting programs; conducted patent landscaping and competitor analysis; and filed patent reexamination, PGR, and inter partes review (IPR) requests.
Cory's litigation experience includes matters before U.S. district courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). He has prepared non-infringement and invalidity contentions; managed fact discovery; worked with fact and expert witnesses to prepare declarations and expert reports; drafted claim construction and summary judgment briefs; and prepared presentations for technical tutorials and claim construction hearings.
Cory gained technical experience in communications, audio/video processing, and content and data management while working in the broadcast engineering department of NBA Entertainment. During his tenure as a patent examiner, he examined patent applications in the database and information management fields.
F5 Networks, Inc. v A10 Networks, Inc.
Member of team that represented A10 in a matter regarding network load balancing and successfully obtained rejections of all of F5’s asserted patents on reexamination.
2:10-cv-00654, W.D. Wash., Judge Pechman
Finnegan assists AOL in achieving $1.056 billion patent deal
Worked on Finnegan team that assisted AOL in achieving a $1.056 billion patent deal with Microsoft and worked closely with AOL to strategically build and strengthen its patent portfolio towards its monetization goals.
SAP America Inc. v. Versata Development Group Inc.
Counsel for petitioner SAP in the first CBM proceeding, which was expedited to last just nine months from petition filing to the final written decision; member of team that won Federal Circuit affirmance of PTAB ruling that all claims challenged by SAP were invalid under 35 USC § 101.
CBM2012-00001, PTAB, Judges Elluru, Lee, Medley, Tierney
14-1194, Fed. Cir., Judges Hughes, Newman, Plager
Nested Bean, Inc. v. Big Beings USA Pty. Ltd. et al.
Representing Big Beings dba Love To Dream in an IPR before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) involving baby swaddle suits.
IPR2020-01234, PTAB, Judges Weatherly, Cherry, Pinkerton
NXP USA Inc. v. MediaTek, Inc. et al.
2:21-cv-00318, E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corporation
IPR2018-00340, -00341, -00344, -00345, PTAB, Judges Yap, Lee, Bonilla
19-1947, -1948, -2287, -2288, Fed. Cir., Judges Moore, Schall, Lourie
At the PTAB Blog
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April 16, 2024
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January 2, 2024
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D. Mass. Patent Litigation Update: November 2023 D. Mass. Patent Litigation Update: November 2023
December 19, 2023
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December 15, 2023
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D. Mass. Patent Litigation Update, July 2023 D. Mass. Patent Litigation Update, July 2023
August 31, 2023
"Bell is an expert in post-grant proceedings and has acted in over 200 proceedings before the USPTO and the PTAB."
Intellectual Asset Management Patent 1000
"Bell is an expert in post-grant proceedings and has acted in over 200 proceedings before the USPTO and the PTAB."
Intellectual Asset Management Patent 1000
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