Practice Areas

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

Patent Interferences

ASHE, P.C. is particularly well-suited to represent its clients in all aspects of interference practice. Attorneys at ASHE, P.C. are nationally recognized as specialists in patent interference proceedings, at times representing clients in 10% of all interference proceedings pending before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

The attorneys at ASHE, P.C. have extensive experience in counseling clients in “pre-interference” matters, such as provoking or avoiding interference proceedings, making “internal” inventorship determinations, and monitoring the publication of patent applications and issued patents that could create statutory bars to claimed inventions under 35 U.S.C. § 135(b).

The attorneys at ASHE, P.C. routinely serves as lead counsel in interference proceedings before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. Once declared, interference proceedings are procedurally intense: initial papers are ordinarily due within fourteen days of the declaration of interference and lists of intended motions are usually due within six weeks of the declaration of interference. ASHE, P.C. is well versed in the administrative rules and Standing Order governing interference proceedings, both of which have been substantially modified over the past two years. Recent statistics from the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences reflect that the majority of interferences terminate within the first year of the proceeding. The extensive experience of the paralegals and attorneys at ASHE, P.C. enables attention to be quickly focused on the substantive issues of the case.

On appeal, ASHE, P.C. is prepared to provide effective guidance in district court actions filed under 35 U.S.C. § 146 and to fully represent clients in appeals to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. ASHE, P.C. is presently involved in a variety of appellate actions.