在激烈的市场竞争中,创新型企业往往要捍卫其专利的有效性或挑战竞争对手的专利有效性。审查专利局授权专利的程序非常复杂,往往涉及平行诉讼,这就要求律师深入了解诉讼程序之间的相互作用以及如何优化整体策略来确保各项诉讼的成功。无论是通过美国专利商标局(USPTO)专利审判和上诉委员会(PTAB)的授权后复审、德国专利商标局(DPMA)专利部或欧洲专利局(EPO)的异议,还是德国联邦专利法院的无效诉讼,飞翰都是代表客户处理这些程序最有经验的律所之一。我们已为200多个涵盖各个行业的企业客户代理专利无效程序、制定不同战略目标,积累了相当数量和类型的丰富经验。
我们代理请求人和专利权人案件业务均衡,并获得了各大奖项和排名、以及专注从业人员观察和评论的新闻媒体的持续认可。我们的成功在于深入了解相关法庭、规则、趋势和程序。我们每个月都会在PTAB博客发布我们跟踪的各类PTAB数据。此外,我们也会发布累积的PTAB数据。
在欧洲、德国和美国知识产权法下,诉讼和无效策略的相互作用
我们鼓励律师参与地区法院、政府机构诉讼以及上诉,多方面积累经验。在与法官协调期间,这些综合性经验让我们能够就对案件至关重要的问题瞬间做出决定。也让我们能够利用飞翰在全球的诉讼经验做出进攻或防御战略的商业决策。飞翰拥有数十年的专利法庭和专利申办经验,特别适合处理专利无效案件。我们的律师善于分析上诉中各个可能事项的成功几率,为客户提供咨询并提供最佳的综合上诉策略,以取得成功并满足客户的商业需求。
合作推进商业目标、提升市场价值
保护和促进创新及市场信任是飞翰的基本宗旨。飞翰坚持具有服务精神的文化且保持在专业律师协会和法律协会的领导地位,并与工业界同仁和政府合作以促进知识产权保护和提高行业专业水准。我们参与的组织包括联邦巡回法院律师协会(FCBA)、欧洲专利局专利代理人协会(epi)、美国专利商标局PTAB律师协会。
溯源调查程序是《美国发明法案》先申请制条款的特例。
根据《美国发明法案》,单方复审程序仍为挑战专利有效性的重要选项。
干预程序对于符合提早申请日期资格的权利要求的许多专利申请,仍然是可行的。
In Germany, the validity of a patent can be challenged only by means of a nullity action with the Federal Patent Court or, if still admissible, in an opposition with the Patent Office.
欧洲专利局(EPO)的异议程序为第三方提供了在欧洲专利授权后的一段有限的时间内,在欧洲专利局集中攻击攻击欧洲专利的机会。
我们的欧洲专利律师在欧洲专利局(EPO)的异议部和各种上诉委员会都有丰富的经验。
飞翰拥有百余件授权后程序的经验,并熟知这些独特的诉讼程序和潜在的危险。
第三方意见可以向任何欧洲专利申请或诉讼中的专利(包括欧洲专利局异议和上诉)提出。我们的欧洲专利律师对于准备和递交第三方意见拥有丰富的经验。
Obtained complete victory against Carrum on appeal of the District of Delaware’s claim construction to the Federal Circuit following Carrum’s stipulation of non-infringement under the claim construction, thereby exonerating BMW’s ACC system, first sold in 2000, against Carrum’s 2004 patents. Invalidated several asserted claims through post-grant efforts before the U.S. Patent Office, including IPRs and EPRs, and pursued claims through proceedings before the Eastern District of Virginia to vindicate BMW’s patent challenges.
1:18-cv-01645, D. Del., Judge Andrews
21-1435, 24-1480, Fed. Cir., Judges Clevenger, Cunningham, Lourie, Moore, Prost, Taranto
IPR2019-00902, -00903, -00904, -00905, -00927, 00928, PTAB, Judges Browne, Scanlon, Tornquist
90/019,010, CRU
Finnegan represented Bausch & Lomb’s licensee Eye Therapies, LLC in an appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision finding Eye Therapies’ patent directed to a low-dose brimonidine treatment for eye redness (Lumify®) to be unpatentable. In a precedential decision, the Federal Circuit agreed with Finnegan’s arguments and found that the Board had wrongly invalidated the patent based on an incorrect claim construction, vacating and remanding the case back to the PTAB. The proceeding settled shortly thereafter
23-2173, Fed. Cir., Judges Taranto, Stoll, Scarsi
Representing FaceTec, Inc. in four inter partes reviews (IPRs) relating to groundbreaking 3D liveness detection technology.
IPR2025-00106, -00107, -00108, -00109, PTAB, Judges Khan, Hoang, Baer
Secured a covenant-not-to-sue and zero-dollar walkaway for BMW Group in a declaratory judgment action, concluding Arigna’s high-profile patent enforcement campaign involving current amplification technology. This outcome follows a decisive ITC victory, the dismissal of parallel District Court litigation, and multiple concurrent patent office challenges pending at the time of resolution.
1:23-cv-01190, D.D.C., Judge Contreras
2:21-cv-00173, E.D. Tex.
IPR2021-01531, PTAB, Judges Baer, Fenick, Iftikhar
23-1931, Fed. Cir.
90/019,261, USPTO
2:24-cv-00260, E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap
IPR2025-00592, -00593, -00594, -00595, PTAB
337-TA-1367, ITC, Judge Moore
2:23-cv-10783, C.D. Cal., Judges Anelle-Rocha, Eick
IPR2023-01414, PTAB, Judges Abraham, Cass, Hamann
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