Intellectual Property attorneys defend the United States against allegations of patent and copyright infringement in the United States Court of Federal Claims and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Examples of our practice

A patent case brought against the government

In Pfund v. United States, the plaintiff sought over $100 million in compensation claiming that laser communication systems built for various government agencies infringed his patents.  After a three-week trial and extensive post-trial briefing, the Court of Federal Claims found that the government had proved by "clear and convincing evidence" that the asserted patent claims were invalid because the patented invention would have been "obvious."  This judgment was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.