Joseph M. Schaffner

Joe represents innovative companies in complex, high-risk litigation, utilizing insight gained through serving as a law clerk at the Federal Circuit. He has experience with all phases of patent litigation, including developing trial strategies, claim construction, motions practice, depositions, fact discovery, expert discovery, jury trial, and appeal. Joe also advises clients on the strategic implications of PTAB proceedings with copending district court actions.

Joe has represented both petitioners and patent owners in dozens of post-grant proceedings before the PTAB, including inter partes reviews (IPRs), covered business method reviews (CBMs), and post-grant reviews (PGRs). He has experience with every facet of PTAB trials, has delivered arguments before the Board, and has prepared papers in ex parte and inter partes reexamination proceedings.

Joe's prosecution practice focuses on technologies involving complex mathematical, computational, and physics-based phenomena. He has drafted, prosecuted, or overseen the prosecution of more than three hundred U.S. patent applications.

Prior to his legal career, Joe worked as a scientist for Arete Associates, where he modeled remote sensing systems and developed optical algorithms for imaging devices under a top secret/sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI) clearance. In law school, he undertook clinical work in patent prosecution and criminal defense.

Joe's pro bono practice includes representing veterans before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.