Examples of Andy’s experience include:

• Part of a team that represented a Fortune 500 supplier of aftermarket automotive parts in multiple simultaneous post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board seeking unpatentability of challenged patents.
• Part of a team that represented a Fortune 500 supplier of aftermarket automotive parts in appealing adverse Patent Trial and Appeal Board results to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit including a successful petition for reconsideration by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit En Banc and achieving a final decision with a major change to substantive patent law.
  • First en banc petition for a patent case granted in over 7 years (15 years for design patents).
  • Successfully advocated for the court to overturn decades-old, rigid validity test in favor of a flexible approach, securing one of the most impactful changes to patent law in modern jurisprudence.
• Part of a team that defended a Fortune 500 supplier of aftermarket automotive parts in hostile design patent enforcement proceedings before the International Trade Commission.
• Part of teams that represented a Fortune 500 supplier of aftermarket auto parts in defensive design patent litigation seeking declaratory judgment against several different defendant patent owners in the Northern District of Illinois and the Central District of California.
• Part of a team that represented a Fortune 500 automotive diagnostic company in defensive utility patent litigation in the Western District of Texas.
• Part of a team that represented a provider of international intermodal shipping services in a defensive trademark litigation in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Represented several independent entrepreneurs, inventors, artists, and other creatives in managing and enforcing their intellectual property allowing them to receive fair compensation for their creations and free operation of their businesses.