Nathan’s practice touches on all areas of intellectual property law, balancing between patent prosecution and litigation.
As an electrical engineer and former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Examiner, Nathan knows that details matter. He now works directly with in-house counsel, engineers and inventors, protecting their technologies and developments. Nathan has significant experience petitioning the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for inter partes review (IPR) – proceedings often viewed as less costly and more expeditious than traditional litigation. His experience prosecuting patents and drafting invalidity contentions has granted him insights on successfully petitioning the PTAB to institute IPR proceedings on challenged patents.
In his transactional intellectual property practice, Nathan drafts and prosecutes domestic and international patent applications in a range of technologies, including artificial intelligence, fiber optics, embedded circuits, Internet of Things (IoT), security systems, medical benefit managers, and cloud-based innovation and virtualization. Relying on Nathan's counsel, clients have sought and received patent protection in China, India, Japan, the European Union, Great Britain, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Nathan is also an experienced intellectual property litigator and serves as a technical advisor in patent infringement cases. Nathan produces work product for major patent litigation milestones, including claim construction, invalidity and infringement contentions. He assists in significant discovery projects to discover and assemble product-based invalidity positions.