Patent trials can result in significant remedies – very large damages awards and, often more significant, exclusion of products from the market. The patent law is constantly in flux, with doctrinal shifts, both major and nuanced, regularly emerging from the Federal Circuit and even the Supreme Court. Hence in patent law the quality of appellate advocacy matters, now more than ever. That is why clients with needs in this rapidly developing field regularly call upon Weil’s Patent Appellate Practice Group, often to replace trial counsel that had handled the matter in District Court.

The Group is comprised of attorneys from our established and nationally recognized Patent Litigation Group and our Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Practice Group. The attorneys, over half of whom have technical degrees, work across a broad spectrum of industries and technologies, including Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Communications Technologies, Database Software, Internet Technologies, Medical Devices, Semiconductors and Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes, Software, and Pharmaceuticals.

In addition to our work on behalf of clients bringing or defending appeals, we have extensive history “behind the scenes” with the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit, including leadership positions in the Federal Circuit Bar Association and service as judicial law clerks for the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit. Our attorneys also influence the development of patent law by authoring amicus briefs to the Federal Circuit and the US Supreme Court, regularly presenting papers at significant conferences across the country, and serving as Adjunct Professors of Law, in both the fields of patent law as well as appellate advocacy, at well-known academic institutions.