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U.S. Post-Grant Patent Office Practice Committee
The Committee’s areas of responsibility include all aspects of post-grant patent practice in the U.S., including post-grant review, inter partes review, inter partes reexamination, ex parte reexamination, supplemental examination, interferences, derivation proceedings, transitional program for covered business method patents, and reissue proceedings.
The Committee plans to continue to study issues raised by the IPO Board of Directors (“Board”), the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (via rulemaking proposals), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the members of the Committee, related to post-grant proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Further, the Committee will continue to consider decisions, legislation, and proposed rule changes concerning formal and substantive issues concerning such proceedings. In addition, the Committee may make recommendations to the Board concerning the fair, balanced, “just, speedy, and inexpensive” administration of post-grant proceedings. After receiving approval from the Board, the Committee will assist IPO leadership as appropriate in communicating recommendations to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Trial Division, or the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Chair:David Roadcap, Amgen, Inc.
Chair:Jason Melvin, Apple Inc.
Chair:Thomas A. Brown, Dell Technologies
Chair:Steve Schwarz, Johnson & Johnson
Vice Chair:Sara Citrowske, Boston Scientific Corp.
Vice Chair:Todd R. Walters, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Vice Chair:Jeffrey Curtiss Totten, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Vice Chair:Lynne Browne, Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
Secretary:Kamaram Munira, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Board Liaison:Alexander E. Long, GE Aerospace
Staff Liaison:Samantha Grover, Intellectual Property Owners Association
Members
- Mishima AlamGoogle LLC
- Mishima AlamGoogle LLC
- Kyle BeckemeyerAdeia
- Arpita BhattacharyyaPerkins Coie, LLP
- Derrick CarmanRobins Kaplan LLP
- Shana CyrBristol Myers Squibb Company
- Walter Davis, Jr.Blank Rome LLP
- Azuka DikeBanner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Erin Marie DunstonPanitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP
- Jason A. FitzsimmonsSterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC
- Geoffrey K. GavinJones Day
- Tim GoodsonAdeia
- Kevin R. GreenleafDentons
- R. Danny HuntingtonRothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck
- Michael L. KiklisKiklis Law Firm, PLLC
- Mollybeth KocialskiHolland & Hart LLP
- Justin L. KriegerKilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Colin LaRoseGuntin & Gust
- Benjamin LinMicrosoft Corporation
- Frederic M. MeekerBanner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Jason MuddShook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
- David Pointer, IVThomas|Horstemeyer, LLP
- John SchroederStinson LLP
- Steven ShipeBarnes & Thornburg LLP
- Alex ShtraymLathrop GPM
- Clifford UlrichCarter, Deluca & Farrell, LLP
- Mary VanAttenBristol Myers Squibb Company
- Clint WilkinsHaynes and Boone, LLP
- Andrew WilsonBaker Botts LLP
- James Hunt (Hunter) Yancey, Jr.Qualcomm Incorporated
- Non-Voting Member:Ronald Gregory Israelsen, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
- Non-Voting Member:Tony Petro, Apple Inc.
- Non-Voting Member:John T. Pienkos, Amundsen Davis, LLC
- Non-Voting Member:Harry Vartanian, Darrow Mustafa PC