Larry M. Sandell

Associate

Larry Sandell's practice includes patent litigation, patent drafting and prosecution, reexamination preparation, opinion work, and client counseling in electrical and mechanical technology areas. Currently, Mr. Sandell devotes a substantial portion of his time to litigating before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and U.S. district courts. His litigation experience includes discovery management; pre-litigation investigation and evaluation; preparing claim-construction, invalidity and infringement positions; performing infringement analysis; brief drafting; motions practice; preparing technical experts for trial; and conducting and defending depositions.

In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Sandell advises clients on a wide variety of patent matters. He has drafted and prosecuted patent applications, rendered infringement opinions relating to infringement, and drafted reexamination requests . He also devotes a portion of his time to pro bono matters.

Highlights

• Served as pro bono counsel to military veterans before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
• Served as pro bono counsel in child custody matters before the D.C. Superior Court.
• Certain Electronic Imaging Devices, 337-TA-726 (ITC). Defended Research In Motion, Inc. in a Section 337 litigation involving camera technology.
• Certain Video Game Machines and Related Three-Dimensional Pointing Devices, 337-TA-658 (ITC). Represented Hillcrest Technologies, Inc. in a Section 337 litigation against Nintendo, Inc. The case settled favorably after a full evidentiary hearing was conducted.
• Represented indigent criminal defendants in D.C. Superior Court as a student attorney in the D.C. Law Students in Court Program, while attending law school.
• Served as an associate on The George Washington Law Review, 2006-2008.

Professional Recognition

• Received first prize in the National Institute for the Severely Handicapped's Workplace Technology Scholarship Program for an undergraduate engineering project, 2004.
• Order of the Coif.

Professional Activities

• California Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Bar Association

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "Trademark Licensees May Be Barred from Challenging the Licensor's Ownership of the Mark," LES Insights, Oct. 24, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Patent Licenses Are Presumed to Include Continuation Patents When Same Products Are at Issue," LES Insights, Sept. 19, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Cross License Agreements Had Only Tenuous Relevance to Determining Reasonably Royalty Damages and Were Not Required to Be Produced in Patent Litigation," LES Insights, July 11, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Declaratory Judgment Action Challenging Patent Validity and Infringement Was Dismissed Despite a Patent Owner's Statement that the Plaintiff's Product May Infringe Certain Patents," LES Insights, May 16, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Terminating a License Agreement Precludes Recovering Post-Judgment Royalties Under the Agreement," LES Insights, March 14, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Licensee Breaches License Agreement by Allowing Its Law Firm Access to the Licensed Technology," LES Insights, Feb. 14, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Judges Diverge on Use of Patent License Negotiations to Determine a Reasonable Royalty," LES Insights, Dec. 6, 2010.
• Coauthor. "A Proposal to Remove Uncertainty from Claims of Small Entity Status before the USPTO by Correcting and Enhancing SBA and USPTO Regulations," Bloomberg Law Reports, Jan. 19, 2010.