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Corporate Counsel Intellectual Property

Location:
Ambler, PA
Posted:
December 11, 2022

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RICHARD P. GILLY

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Ambler, Pennsylvania 19002

215-***-**** adtze4@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts

J.D., 1987

YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Connecticut

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, 1983 Phi Beta Kappa

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

ADMISSIONS

New York, District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania Bars U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. District Courts: E.D. Texas, E.D. Pennsylvania INTERNATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Dual National (French-American): Fluent French; Native English; Conversational Russian, Spanish

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

1992 – present (law firm):

Intellectual property counselling for high-tech companies, including medical device companies, green tech, software, and telecom, handling patent and trademark prosecution, opinion work, non-infringement strategies, licensing, development agreements, and other technology-related transactions.

Managing strategic, global patent and trademark portfolios.

Litigating high-tech patent infringement cases, including medical devices, internet systems, telecom, and software, as either lead counsel or lead patent attorney. 1987 – 1992 (IBM, in-house corporate counsel at multiple R & D sites):

Drafted hundreds of commercial, U.S. government, and technology-related agreements, including licenses, joint ventures, and software development agreements.

Negotiated multi-million-dollar, international technology transfers with Fortune 100 companies.

Devised ADA, EPA, HR, and other legal compliance programs for business units. ORGANIZATIONS

International Trademark Assoc. (INTA)

Life Sciences, Pennsylvania

Chemical Council of New Jersey

New Jersey Technology Council, Advisory Board

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DETAILED EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Feb. 2018 to present : Archer & Greiner, P.C., Philadelphia (Partner) Nov. 2015 to Feb. 2018 : Offit Kurman, P.A., Philadelphia (Partner) Mar. 2012 to Nov. 2015 : Akerman LLP, New York (Partner) Feb. 2010 to Mar. 2012 : Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, Washington, D.C. (Partner) Dec. 2007 to Feb. 2010 : Winston & Strawn, LLP, Washington, D.C. (Partner) Nov. 2004 to Nov. 2007 : Fish & Richardson, P.C., Wilmington, Del. (Partner) July 2002 to Nov. 2004 : Wolf Block, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (Partner) Mar. 1998 to July 2002 : R. P. Gilly Law Offices, Philadelphia, PA (Principal) May 1996 to Mar. 1998 : Eckert Seamans LLC, Philadelphia PA (Sr. Associate) Mar. 1993 to May 1996 : Laff, Whitesel, Conte & Saret, Chicago, IL (Associate) July 1987 to Aug. 1992 : IBM Corporation, Kingston, E Fishkill, NY (Site Attorney) REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

“Federal Circuit Clarifies What Makes a Valid Software Patent,” Legal Intelligencer, April 4, 2017.

“Big or Small, Targets One and All: Anti-Money Laundering Exposure for Companies and Individuals” (co-author), Bloomberg BNA White Collar Crime Report, Mar. 2016

“Patent Issues in the Cloud,” BNA J of Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights, Nov 2011.

“Supreme Court’s Quanta Decision Clarifies the Reach of Patent Exhaustion,” Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal, September 2008.

“Supreme Court Rules That Authorized Sales by Licensee Exhaust Method Patents,” Bloomberg IP Law Report, August 2008.

REPRESENTATIVE PATENT LITIGATIONS

Precision Medical, Inc. v. Genstar Technologies, et al., E.D. Pa. 5: 10-cv-051 61-BMS

(Favorable settlement after preliminary injunction “mini-trial”.)

Cias, Inc. v. Alliance Gaming, et al., S.D. N.Y. 1:03-cv-03064-LAK-GWG (Disposed of case on summary judgment of non-infringement; upheld on appeal.)

Ceres Communications Technologies, LLC, v. Atlantic Broadband Finance, LLC, et al., D. Del. 10-cv-01062-GMS (Favorable dismissal for defendant cable service provider.)

Telecheck International, Inc. v. LML Payments Systems, Inc., et al., E. D. Tex. 2:05- cv-00270-DF-CMC (Represented Telecheck in strategically effective countersuit.)

Lucent Technologies, Inc., et al v. Gateway, Inc., et al, S.D. Cal. 3:07-cv-02000- H- CAB (Devised non-infringement and invalidity strategies as part of joint defense group for computer company Gateway, Inc.)

Clear With Computers, LLC v. Hyundai Motor America, Inc., E.D. Tex. 6:09-cv00479- LED (Advised Hyundai Motor America on non-infringement and invalidity strategies.)

IMCS, Inc. v. D.P. Technology Corporation, E.D. Pa. 2:02-cv-07084-RBS

(Represented D.P. Technology, leading software maker for industry applications.)

Gribetz Int’l, Inc. v. Nahmaschinenfabrik, et al., M.D. FL 8:99-cv-01 01 9-JDW

(Successfully developed defenses major European manufacturer of complex computer-driven systems, leading to favorable settlement.)



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