[Webinar] Funded Patent Litigation – Raising funds by investors to enforce patent rights Part 2 [Subtitles]

Over the last several decades the market value of S&P 500 companies has been increasingly attributable to intangible assets, including intellectual property. Today, intangible assets, as compared to book value, can account for well over 80% of the market value for many technology based companies. While some companies have sufficient capital to police and enforce their intellectual property, many companies lacking capital are unable to do so and, therefore, fail to realize the full value of their intellectual property portfolio. Investment companies in the U.S. and abroad are seeing this untapped potential as a profitable investment opportunity in which the investment company assumes some or all of the financial risk by providing legal finance in exchange for a share of any proceeds obtained from enforcing the intellectual property. With the possibility of litigation financing, companies will have the means to monetize their IP portfolios without incurring financial risks. The panel will discuss the nuts and bolts of funded patent litigation, as well as some important strategies companies might adopt when considering such opportunities. In Part 2, you can watch the panel discussion and the Q&A session.

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-Panelist introduction
Funded Patent Litigation - Investor funding for patent enforcement
Panelists Michael R. Dzwonczyk (Sughrue), Raja N. Saliba (Sughrue), Fadi N. Kiblawi (Sughrue)
-Moderated Discussion of The possibility to use Analytics and Technology in Cross-Border Patent Litigation
Panelists Michael R. Dzwonczyk (Sughrue), Raja N. Saliba (Sughrue), Fadi N. Kiblawi (Sughrue), Vlad Lobatchev (FRONTEO), Shiho Tanaka (FRONTEO)
-Q&A session
Panelists Michael R. Dzwonczyk (Sughrue), Raja N. Saliba (Sughrue), Fadi N. Kiblawi (Sughrue), Vlad Lobatchev (FRONTEO), Shiho Tanaka (FRONTEO)

lecturer

Michael R. Dzwonczyk, Partner

For over 30 years, Michael has successfully represented multinational companies as lead counsel in trials and appeals of patent cases in District Courts and at the Federal Circuit, as well as Section 337 cases at the International Trade Commission. Michael also counsels clients on intellectual property issues, including validity and infringement of intellectual property rights, licensing and contract matters and Hatch-Waxman issues. He has lectured on numerous topics including strategies for opinion drafting, pharmaceutical litigation strategies, AIA procedures, compulsory licensing, and Patent Law Reform. He is the former Chair of FCBA's amicus committee, a former member of its Board of Directors, as well as a former Chair of the AIPLA Chemical Practice Committee.

Michael is an adjunct professor of law at George Washington University's National Law Center, where he co-teaches International and Comparative Patent Law. He is on the Advisory Board of the Naples Roundtable and a regular speaker at the Annual Leahy Institute of Advanced Patent Studies. He has been named in the IAM Patent 2014 list of The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners from 2018-1000, and listed as a leading expert in the Financier Worldwide Corporate Advisor Handbook for Intellectual Property from 2014-2018.

Raja N. Saliba, Partner

Raja is a partner in the firm's Washington D.C. office and the Electrical/Mechanical Practice Group Leader. Raja has over 22 years’ experience in representing domestic and international clients in disputes before federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit, and inter partes matters before the USPTO. Raja also regularly engages in patent validity and infringement opinion practice and counseling clients on freedom-to-operate, due diligence, product clearance work, licensing and preparing and prosecuting patent applications. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on intellectual property law and participated in the founding of the PTAB Bar Association where he serves as a member of the PTAB Trials Committee and a Vice-Chair of the PTAB Appeals Committee, and serves on several committees of FICPI. Raja is also co-author of The Essential Case Law Guide to PTAB Trials (2018).

Fadi N. Kiblawi, Partner

Fadi is a partner in the Tokyo office of Sughrue Mion, PLLC. Prior to moving to Tokyo, Fadi was a partner in Sughrue’s Washington D.C. office, where he practiced for nearly a decade. Fadi has litigated cases in federal district courts across the country, successfully representing Asian companies in the most popular patent venues from California to Texas to Delaware. He has also been counsel on over 10 inter partes reviews before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), on behalf of both petitioners and patent owners. Fadi began his career prosecuting patent applications from among the world’s largest technology companies, and continues to handle a significant prosecution docket including high priority standards-related and targeted applications in the electrical and mechanical arts.

Profile

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Sughrue is an Intellectual Property Law Firm. Exclusively.

From our inception in 1957 to the present, we have focused solely on intellectual property law. We handle every aspect of IP law, and we have kept this area as our exclusive focus as a way to ensure that we provide the highest possible expertise to our clients. We have obtained more U.S. patents than any other law firm in the world, and we have successfully litigated IP disputes in every popular forum, including U.S. District Courts across the country, the United States International Trade Commission, (USITC), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB).

With nearly 100 patent attorneys that have science or engineering degrees, many at the post-graduate level, we can provide in-depth coverage of any technology area. The size of our technology teams allows us to help clients efficiently develop large patent portfolios and litigate complex technology disputes. We are steeped in Post Grant Review proceedings under the America Invents Act, including Inter Partes Review (IPR), Post-Grant Review (PGR), Covered Business Method (CBM), reexamination, reissue, and interference proceedings for which we are uniquely qualified due to our deep prosecution and inter partes experience before the PTO.

Each of our trademark attorneys has decades of experience in all aspects of trademark and unfair competition practice, from searching, prosecution and registration at the U.S. PTO and abroad, to internet issues, to federal court litigation; and we literally wrote the book on TTAB procedure and law. Our trademark clients include some of the most well-known brands in the marketplace, and our trademark attorneys are consistently recognized, internationally and domestically, as some of the best trademark attorneys in the world.

Sughrue is an international firm in every sense of the word. We are experienced in handling worldwide patent and trademark portfolios, and have major clients throughout the world, for example, in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, India and Europe. Our attorneys speak many languages, and travel the world on a regular basis to meet with clients and speak at international conferences as authorities on Intellectual Property issues.