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Steve Walmsley’s research got a patent infringement lawsuit quickly dropped

Steve Walmsley’s research got a patent infringement lawsuit quickly dropped

When a competitor hit a client with a patent infringement suit involving many U.S. patents of a large extended international patent family, and before ordering a costly patent invalidation search, Steve Walmsley scoured the prosecution histories of all family members and discovered killer prior art objectively withheld by the client’s competitor in the U.S. patents.¬† […]

When a competitor hit a client with a patent infringement suit involving many U.S. patents of

a large extended international patent family, and before ordering a costly patent invalidation

search, Steve Walmsley scoured the prosecution histories of all family members and discovered

killer prior art objectively withheld by the client’s competitor in the U.S. patents.¬† When the

client communicated the bad news to their competitor; the lawsuit was quickly dropped.