Foley & Lardner LLP

Opinion on Re-Issue Patent

Foley's client — a leading consumer electronics manufacturer — was approached by a group with a reissued patent. The reissued patent had a decades-old priority date, but was not set to expire for several years, thanks to a 35-year-long secrecy order from the U.S. Department of Defense. We found anticipatory prior art in less than one week, and assembled a list of strong anticipation and obviousness defenses.