Interferences before the Board of Patent Appeals and the Patent and Trademark Office are often high stakes proceedings with significant impact on a company's revenue, market position and shareholder value. The outcome determines which of two competitors is entitled to patent protection. Therefore, clients are best served by attorneys with significant experience in every aspect and phase of these specialized proceedings, from pre-interference strategy to assembling evidence through the final hearings and appeals of decisions. We also make sure that an interference process is well integrated with a client's overall litigation strategy. One of our recent wins was for the Japanese pharmaceutical company Sankyo against Pfizer, in an interference involving a new pain-relieving drug. Our case was so strong that Sankyo was entitled to the patent that Pfizer conceded defeat.
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