Experience

Successfully defended Intel in patent suit relating to lithographic patterning techniques for use in the manufacture of semiconductor devices. The district court granted summary judgment that the patent was unenforceable for most of its existence for failure to comply with a terminal disclaimer, and it dismissed the remainder of the case for lack of standing because STC failed to join the patent’s current co-owner. The Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal, rejecting STC’s argument that it was entitled to join its co-owner against the co-owner’s will.