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ASHE, P.C.
11440 Isaac Newton Square North
Suite 210
Reston, VA 20190
Tel: 703-467-9001
Fax: 703-467-9002
info@ashepc.com

About Ashe, P.C.

ASHE, P.C. provides a variety of unique services related to high level proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 

ASHE, P.C. has extensive experience in all phases of interference proceedings, which is a "contested case" before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.  Interference practice involves a variety of activities, including providing patentability opinions, resolving inventorship disputes, evaluating and monitoring patent/application portfolios, motions practice, depositions, oral arguments, appeals, and settlement.  Mr. Ashe has served as lead counsel on dozens of complex interference proceedings before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as advisory counsel on a variety of related district court actions. 

Today, virtually every aspect of patent law is the subject of potential reform through legislative and administrative efforts.  ASHE, P.C. is ready to effectively represent its clients in the variety of proceedings that are likely to emerge from the patent reform process.

For years, interference practice has been characterized as a procedural oddity of U.S. patent law veiled in arcane rules and concepts.  However, over the past ten years, interference proceedings have been the subject of a massive administrative reform process and are now emerging in the context of patent reform efforts as a model for other patent-related proceedings such as inter partes re-examination, post-grant cancellation proceedings, derivation proceedings, and even ex parte appeals.  ASHE, P.C.'s extensive experience and understanding of interference proceedings will allow ASHE, P.C. to effectively represent its clients in each of these types of proceedings before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

ASHE, P.C. is unique in its ability to bring years of lead counsel experience to the table in an efficient and cost effective manner.  In-house and outside counsel routinely retain ASHE, P.C. to assist in the evaluation and execution of complex strategies, which often concurrently involve foreign and domestic prosecution, foreign opposition proceedings, district court litigation, reexamination proceedings and related interference proceedings.  As a small firm, ASHE, P.C. is efficiently integrated into existing legal teams to provide high-caliber and cost effective representation.