I am an attorney at the law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC in the Pittsburgh office, and I focus my practice in the energy, intellectual property, and complex civil litigation areas. In particular, I have represented plaintiffs and defendants in dozens of lawsuits throughout the country. I also have experience representing clients at trial, having successfully represented plaintiffs in a case with in a multi-million dollar jury verdict, and on appeal, having successfully argued before the Federal Circuit.
I am licensed to practice in the states of Pennsylvania and Illinois, as well as being a registered patent attorney before the US Patent and Trademark Office. I am currently admitted to practice before the following federal courts: US District Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Northern District of Ohio, Northern District of Illinois (trial bar), and Central District of Illinois and the US Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits.
Before practicing in Pittsburgh, I was counsel at the Pittsburgh law firm of Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton, P.C. and an associate in the intellectual property and litigation groups at the Chicago law firm of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP. I clerked for the Honorable Kathleen M. O'Malley at the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Judge O'Malley currently sits at the Federal Circuit, which hears all appeals involving patents.
Practice areas
9 years
19 years
19 years
Languages spoken
English
State | Status | Acquired | Updated |
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PA | Active | 2010 | 07/01/2022 |
IL | Active And Authorized To Practice Law | 2001 | 06/13/2022 |
Legal answers | 0 |
Legal guides | 0 |
Award name | Grantor | Date Granted |
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Pennsylvania SuperLawyer | SuperLawyers | 2019 |
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2018 |
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2017 |
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2016 |
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2015 |
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2014 |
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2013 |
Concentration in Litigation with Honors | Case Western Reserve University School of Law | 2001 |
Magna Cum Laude | Case Western Reserve University School of Law | 2001 |
Order of the Coif | Case Western Reserve University School of Law | 2001 |
Highest Grade in Products Liability | CALI | 2000 |
Highest Grade in Complex Federal Criminal Prosecution | CALI | 2000 |
Highest Grade in Admiralty | CALI | 2000 |
Highest Grade in Torts | CALI | 1998 |
Title | Company name | Duration |
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Counsel | Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC | 2017 - Present |
Counsel | Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton, PC | 2010 - 2017 |
Associate | Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP | 2003 - 2010 |
Law Clerk | United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | 2001 - 2003 |
Association name | Position name | Duration |
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Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association | Vice President | 2019 - Present |
Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association | Board of Managers | 2016 - Present |
Defense Research Institute, Intellectual Property Subcommittee | Chair, Patent SLG | 2015 - Present |
Defense Research Institute, Intellectual Property Subcommittee | Steering Committee | 2013 - Present |
Defense Research Institute, Intellectual Property Subcommittee | Member | 2013 - Present |
Allegheny County Bar Association | Member | 2010 - Present |
Defense Research Institute | Member | 2010 - Present |
Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association | Member | 2010 - Present |
Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association | Secretary/Treasurer | 2018 - 2019 |
Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association | Chair, Communications Committee | 2016 - 2018 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section | Chair, Copyright Committee | 2016 - 2018 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association | Member | 2010 - 2018 |
Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago | Member | 2008 - 2010 |
Publication name | Title | Date |
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In-House Defense Quarterly (DRI, Defense Research Institute) | The New Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 | 2017 |
USLAW Magazine | The New Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 | 2016 |
DRI Today | Supreme Court Grants Cert in Joint Patent Infringement Case | 2014 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Federal Circuit Grants Additional Time to Term of Patent from Continued Examination | 2014 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Pennsylvania Senate to Consider Patent Troll Bill | 2014 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | USPTO Posts Questionable Advice for People Who Receive Demand Letters | 2014 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | What Is a Patent? | 2014 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | What Is the Difference Between a Provisional and Non-Provisional Patent Application? | 2014 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | What Is a Copyright? | 2014 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Survey of Proposed Patent Lawsuit Reform Bills in Congress (Part 1) | 2013 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Is Software Patentable? Fed Circuit Isn’t Sure—CLS Bank v. Alice Corp. | 2013 |
DRI Today | Supreme Court Rules That Genes Are Not Patentable Subject Matter | 2013 |
USLAW Connect | Supreme Court Holds That Reverse Payments May Give Rise to Antitrust Violations | 2013 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Federal Circuit Determines That It Has Jurisdiction to Hear Appeal Before Damages or Willfulness Determination | 2013 |
USLAW Magazine | Beware of the Patent Troll Tax | 2013 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Survey of Proposed Patent Lawsuit Reform Bills in Congress (Part 2) | 2013 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Survey of Proposed Patent Lawsuit Reform Bills in Congress (Part 3) | 2013 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Congress Considering Stronger Trade Secret Laws | 2013 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association Civil Litigation Update | Court Sanctions Infringer for Violating Permanent Injunction With Improper Product Design Around | 2013 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association Civil Litigation Update | Plaintiffs' Inconsistent Amended Pleading Results in Complaint Being Dismissed With Prejudice | 2013 |
USLAW Connect | Federal Circuit to Reconsider De Novo Claim Construction Review—Lighting Ballast Control Order | 2013 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Is Software Patentable? Federal Circuit Isn't Sure—CLS Bank v. Alice Corp. | 2013 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Proper Pleading Standard Under Twombley for Patent Infringing Complaints—K-Tech Communications | 2013 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Are Human Genes Patentable?—Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics | 2013 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Full Scope Enablement — Magsil Corp. v. Hitachi Global Storage Techs., Inc. | 2012 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Rogers v. Tristar Products–Federal Circuit Dismisses Pending Patent False Marking Appeal | 2012 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Patent or Trade Secret — Which One to Choose? | 2012 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association Civil Litigation Update | Third Circuit Holds That Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Are Prima-Facie Evidence of an Unreasonable Restraint of Trade | 2012 |
DRI Today | Supreme Court Affirms Clear and Convincing Standard for Proving Invalidity in Microsoft v. i4i Decision | 2011 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Federal Circuit Grants En Banc Rehearing in McKesson to Decide Joint Infringement Standard | 2011 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Supreme Court Issues Global-Tech Decision Setting Inducement to Infringe Patent Standard | 2011 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | In re Klein–Federal Circuit Reverses Obviousness Rejection Because Non-Analogous Art Used | 2011 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Federal Circuit to Revisit Joint Infringement Standard En Banc in Akamai Case | 2011 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association Civil Litigation Update | Middle District of Pennsylvania Denies Motion to Dismiss PUTSA and Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims but Dismisses Interference With Contractual Relations Claim | 2011 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association Civil Litigation Update | Court Rejects Rule 9(b) Challenge to False Marking Case | 2011 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association Civil Litigation Update | Court Dismisses False Marking Claim Where Marks Appeared in Manuals and Not on Products | 2011 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Federal Circuit Sanctions Non-Practicing Entity for Baseless Lawsuit—Eon-Net LP v. Flagstar Bancorp | 2011 |
Pit IP Tech Blog | Public Domain May Not Be So Public After-All—The Warner Bros. v. X One X Decision | 2011 |
ipFrontline | Copyright Trolling for Bloggers--Don't Get Hooked | 2010 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association Civil Litigation Update | Court Grants Motion to Dismiss False Patent Marking Complaint Under Rule 9(b) | 2010 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association Civil Litigation Update | Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Amended Complaint Alleging False Patent Marking | 2010 |
Pennsylvania Bar Association Civil Litigation Update | Court Transfers False Patent Marking Lawsuit to Defendant's Home District | 2010 |
Ph.D. Thesis--University of Michigan | Laser-Plasma Electron Accelerators and Nonlinear, Relativistic Optics | 1998 |
Physical Review Letters | Evolution of a Plasma Waveguide Created during Relativistic Self-Channeling of an Intense Laser Pulse | 1998 |
Physical Review Letters | Electron Acceleration by a Laser Wakefield in a Relativistically Self-Guided Channel, | 1997 |
Journal of Applied Optics | High-resolution optical chirped pulse gating | 1997 |
Science | Optics with Relativistic Unbound Electrons | 1996 |
Physical Review Letters | Temporal characterization of a self-modulated laser wakefield | 1996 |
Optics Letters | Nonlinear temporal diffraction and frequency shifts resulting from pulse shaping in chirped-pulse amplification systems | 1995 |
School name | Degree | Graduated |
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Case Western Reserve University School of Law | JD - Juris Doctor | 2001 |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | PhD - Doctorate | 1998 |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | M.S. | 1995 |
Harvey Mudd College (Claremont) | BS - Bachelor of Science | 1992 |
Conference name | Title | Date |
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WPACC CLE | The New Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 | 2016 |
USLAW Business to Business Litigation Exchange | Federal Circuit Split on the Scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and the New Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) | 2016 |
IP Inn of Court Meeting | What? We Have New Local Rules? And Model Jury Instructions? | 2016 |
PIPLA Meeting | Update on the Western District of Pennsylvania's Revisions to the Local Patent Rules and Model Jury Instructions | 2016 |
WPACC CLE | Protecting Your Business in the Data Age: Cybersecurity, Data Breach Prevention and Response, Related Litigation | 2015 |
DRI Data Breach and Privacy Law Seminar | Life Cycle of a Cyber Security Breach, | 2015 |
Pittsburgh Paralegal Association Technology/IP Section Meeting | An Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | 2014 |
Pittsburgh Paralegal Association Fall Education Conference | Monkey Selfies, Ellen DeGeneres, and Twitter Pics--Current Issues in Copyright Law | 2014 |
APS/AAPT Joint Meeting | Characterization of a Resonant Laser Wakefield Accelerator and Optical Electron Injector | 1999 |
Optical Society of America Annual Meeting | Plasma Waveguide Dynamics and Coulomb Explosion at Relativistic Laser Intensities | 1998 |
8th Annual Workshop on Advanced Accelerator Concepts | Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator | 1998 |
APS--Division of Plasma Physics | Electron Acceleration by a Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield | 1996 |
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference | A Collimated Beam of MeV Electrons Accelerated by a Terawatt Laser | 1996 |
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics | Efficient Narrow Bandwidth Conversion From a Chirped-Pulse-Amplification System | 1996 |
Fourteenth International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry | Laser-Induced Plasma Acceleration of Particles | 1996 |
Case name | Outcome |
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Modular International, Inc. v. Litelab Corp. | Settled |
Midtronics, Inc. v. Aurora Performance Products, LLC | Won appeal at Federal Circuit |
Midtronics, Inc. v. Aurora Performance Products, LLC | Verdict in favor of my client (plaintiff) |
TS Media Tech IP, LLC v. Midtronics, Inc. | Settled |
Memory Control Enterprise, LLC v. OfficeMax Incorporated | Case settled |
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November 24, 2018
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Katherine Dempsey, Intellectual property Attorney on Aug 8, 2013
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I endorse this lawyer. Rob is a very talented and dedicated intellectual property attorney.
Cara Disheroon, Intellectual property Attorney on Aug 8, 2013
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I endorse this lawyer. Rob is an extremely effective patent attorney with federal circuit experience. I highly recommend him for patent and intellectual property work.