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Bob helps innovators stand up to the largest companies in the world. He leads post-grant proceedings teams at Sunstein leveraging his deep experience in patent litigation and patent prosecution. Bob has been lead counsel on over a dozen inter partes reviews ("IPR"), including the highly successful Federal Circuit appeal against Apple which placed limits on the PTAB's use of "common sense" to invalidate patents. Bob devotes a significant portion of his practice to patent litigation. In 2016, our $14.6M jury verdict for Exergen was recognized as the fourth highest in the state that year. In another case, Bob whittled down the value of the case through motions and ultimately won a dismissal for our client after the Markman hearing, while the remaining three defendants sought to untangle themselves from the litigation. Specific patent cases have involved technologies including interactive television, power converters, solar cells, microwave antennas, electronic appliances, satellite tuners, robot arms, coffee makers, flame detectors, ACL surgery and infrared thermometers. Bob has combined his litigation and reexamination experience to provide cutting–edge representation in the IPR arena.Patents Bob has prosecuted have been used by clients to support multi-million dollar acquisitions and secure millions of dollars through litigation against infringing companies. For example, he handled the ActiveVideo patents successfully asserted in court against Verizon, producing a settlement of over $260M. He works in a wide variety of technologies from interactive TV to semiconductors to software to medical devices.Specialties: Patent litigation, inter partes reviews, patent prosecution, strengthening patent portfolios, electronics, medical devices, interactive television, telecommunications, antennas, semiconductors, integrated circuits, computer patents, trademarks, copyrights

Listed skills include Patent Prosecution, Patents, Patent Litigation, Intellectual Property, and 15 others.