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Interestingly Attorney Stephen C Durant till 2008 was one of the partner at Duane Morris Firm !
Duane Morris Partner Stephen C. Durant to Speak at PLI's Patent Litigation 2008September 23, 2008 | San Francisco | PLI California Center
Duane Morris partner Stephen C. Durant will be speaking at Practising Law Institute's (PLI) Patent Litigation 2008 seminar, to be held on September 22-23, 2008, in San Francisco, California. Mr. Durant will speak on the topic of "Prosecuting a Patent That Holds Up in Litigation" on Tuesday, September 23, at 11:15 a.m.
In this presentation, Mr. Durant will discuss some of the potential pitfalls of the litigation-prepared patent. This is not about complying with statutory requirements for disclosure or duty of disclosure that you will have to do anyway. This is about the discretionary things that patent prosecutors sometimes do, with the best of intentions, which can then turn around and bite back in court. For example:
- Failing to present claims that cover the on-the-shelf product that the client sells injuror-friendly words versus claims drafted so abstractly that jurors can not relate them to what is at stake, or find easy to read on prior art from other fields
- Drafting claims that require multiple actors to infringe
- Speculating in the specification, beyond what the inventor invented, in ways that throw away non-analogous art distinctions, raise inoperativeness defenses, or invoke the contributions of unnamed inventors.
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Stephen C. Durant
| Experience & Credentials |
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| University | University of Notre Dame, Indiana, B.S.E.E., 1978 | ||||||||||
| Law School | Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, J.D., 1981 | ||||||||||
| Admitted | 1983, California; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | ||||||||||
| Born | 1956 | ||||||||||
| Biography |
Stephen Durant is a shareholder in the law firm Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., San Jose, California. He has written and prosecuted patents in a wide range of technologies including software, computers, electronic circuits, holography, MEMS, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, microprocessors, wired and wireless telecommunication devices, network architectures, database software, electronic design automation, disk drives, Internet software, motion picture animation, computer graphics processing and business methods. His practice is devoted to developing intellectual property portfolios aligned with business goals; enforcement and litigation strategy involving infringement, non-infringement and invalidity analyses, reexaminations and reissues; IP due diligence directed to financings, mergers & acquisitions and licensing; working with business managers to maximize portfolio value; assessing, avoiding and responding to third-party IP threats; and providing legal opinions. His experience also includes advising companies on copyright, trademark, trade secret and licensing. He has represented numerous high-technology clients including start-ups, emerging companies, public companies and universities in technology-related IP issues. Steve held leadership roles in the formation of the patent prosecution practices at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto and later at Morrison Foerster in San Francisco. Steve was a partner at each of those law firms. Steve worked in-house at the Hughes Aircraft Company, Space & Communications Group, in El Segundo, CA in the mid 80's. Mr. Durant is a graduate of Cornell Law School, J.D, 1981 and University of Notre Dame, B.S.E.E., 1978. Professional Associations · President (1995), Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association · Arbitration/Mediation Committee, American Intellectual Property Association · San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association · American Bar Association · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Published Works · "Co-Editor, Electronics and Software Patents, Law and Practice, Second Edition, published by Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, D.C., 2005 (Co-editor of first edition, 1999) " Classes/Speaking Engagements · "Patent Practice in View of in re Bilski", Practicing Law Institute's Patent Litigation 2009, San Francisco · "Prosecuting a Patent That Holds Up in Litigation," Practicing Law Institute's Patent Litigation 2005-2008, San Francisco · "Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2008: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting and Amendment Writing," Practicing Law Institute, San Francisco, July 2008  
Timothy E. Bianchi
Attorney Minneapolis, Minnesota Shareholder
Timothy Bianchi is a patent attorney with bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. He advises businesses in domestic and international patenting, reexamination, opinions, licensing and enforcement. Tim's patent experience includes electronics, software, medical devices, telecommunications, e-commerce, digital electronics, digital signal processing, computer security, embedded processor designs, hearing aids, network hardware and software, wireless signaling, and RFID. He represents a variety of large and small companies. Tim has engineering experience from former employment with IBM and Honeywell. He also has research experience from his former employment with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota and Honeywell Research. Tim chairs AIPLA's Electronics and Computer Law Patent Prosecution Committee and local committees on patent prosecution. He is a frequent speaker on intellectual property topics. Areas of Practice: Education:
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