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Former Administrative Patent Judge Lee Barrett Joins the Oblon Patent Reexamination Team
A bit of self promotion on this otherwise uneventful Monday….
Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. is proud to announce that Lee E. Barrett has joined the firm as Of Counsel. Mr. Barrett served in several roles during his distinguished 32-year career with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), most recently as an Administrative Patent Judge (APJ) with the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. For 16 years, he was responsible for hearing and deciding appeals from decisions of examiners in applications for patents, for reissue of patents, and in ex parte and inter partes reexamination proceedings.
Of the many notable reported decisions for which Mr. Barrett authored the Board opinion, some of the more high-profile ones were: Ex parte Bilski, Appeal 2002 2257, Application 08/833,892 (BPAI 2006) (affirming a rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 of a business method of hedging), aff’d, In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943 (Fed. Cir. 2008) (en banc), aff’d, Bilski v. Kappos, 561 U.S., 130 S. Ct. 3218 (2010); Ex parte Translogic Tech., Inc., Appeal 2005-1050, Reexamination Control Nos. 90/006,392 et al. (BPAI 2005) (affirming obviousness rejection to serial multiplexer in reexamination after district court jury trial holding the patent valid and infringed), aff’d, In re Translogic Tech., Inc., 504 F.3d 1249 (Fed. Cir. 2007); and Ex parte Reiffin, Appeal 2007-2127, Reexamination Control No. 90/006,621 (BPAI 2007) (affirming rejection in reexamination based on lack of written description for “multithreading” and rejections based on anticipation and obviousness), aff’d, In re Reiffin, 340 Fed. Appx. 651 (Fed. Cir. 2009) (nonprecedential).
Lee Barrett will serve as an appeal specialist for the Oblon Spivak Reexamination & Reissue Practice Group.
