| Seann Patrick Lahey | |
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| Overview | Seann Lahey works in the intellectual property section of the Greenville office and counsels clients in all aspects of intellectual property law, with a primary focus on U.S. and International patent protection and designing around competitors patents.
Seann has developed an extensive expertise in dealing with international and U.S. patent prosecution including ex-parte and inter-parties practices before the USPTO involving appeals, reissue, reexamination, and interferences. His practice regularly includes dealing with trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing of intellectual property rights, and rendering legal opinions on validity, infringement and enforceability of intellectual property rights. Seann’s practice also includes litigation involving patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
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| | | Recent Engagements |
- Successfully reexamination efforts for invalidating a competitor’s patent
- Successful prosecution efforts to obtain patents on improvements in fuel cell technology
- Successful prosecution of numerous patents in a variety of technologies before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, particularly involving automotive, biotech, and general mechanical technology
- Successful foreign patent prosecution under the Paris Convention and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) resulting in the issuance of patents in numerous countries
- Successful defense and enforcement of clients' patent and trademark rights through litigation and negotiations
- Notable recent patent application drafting involving genetically engineered corn plant varieties, biomass conversion to ethanol, object detection and avoidance systems for vehicles, vibration dampening systems for large exterior vehicle mirror assemblies, radioactive waste vitrification systems and storage technology
- Successfully advising clients in the sale and management of their intellectual property to maximize the value of their intellectual property
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| | | Professional and Community Involvement |
- Member of the American Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association and Carolina Patent
- Trademark and Copyright Law Association.
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