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May 17, 2023

What happens in litigation at the patent office doesn't stay at the patent office

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Michelle E. Armond

Partner
Armond Wilson LLP

Intellectual Property

UC Berkeley School of Law, bachelor's in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology

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Monica M. Arnold

Senior Associate
Armond Wilson LLP

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Litigants in patent cases must carefully plan their strategies because Patent Office litigation almost inevitably spills over into district court-related cases. In the last 18 months, two landmark decisions by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. impacted patent litigation nationwide: Caltech and Ironburg clarified the influence of U.S. Patent Office litigation on patent validity in parallel federal district court patent litigation.

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