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Linzer focuses on patent counseling, prosecution, litigation, and post-grant proceedings. His counseling and prosecution experience involves working with inventors and corporate counsel beginning at the earliest stages of the patent process. His litigation experience includes appearances at the trial level in U.S. district courts and in the appellate phase before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Range of Motion Products v. Armaid is another reminder that, if care is not taken, design patent scope can be narrowed significantly in the U.S. through functionality analysis—often at the claim construction stage—and even result in summary judgment of non-infringement. Continue Reading When “Functionality” Swallows Design Rights: A Caution for Design Patent Applicants