Mr. Stroud manages Unified Patents’ legal and corporate work, with a focus on Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), district court, and appellate litigation, contracting, general corporate matters, and settlement negotiations. He regularly teaches, speaks, and writes about patent and administrative law.
Previously, Mr. Stroud was a patent attorney at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett and Dunner LLP, where he was involved in some of the earliest post-grant review work. Before that, he examined patents on implantable medical devices at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
With frivolous NPE patent suits clogging courts, counsel’s diligence and ethics suffer
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Biden’s Regulatory Office Must Closely Review USPTO Rulemaking that Impacts our Economy
In September, President Biden formally nominated Richard Revesz, former Dean of the New York University School of Law, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). T...