Professional Experience

 

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, 2006-2007

 

Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, 1997-2004

 

Fish & Neave, 1973-1976 and 1994-1997

 

Genentech, Inc., Associate General Counsel, 1980-1982

 

Townsend and Townsend, 1976-1980, 1982-1993

 

Bar Admissions

 

California, New York, U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

 

Patent Litigation Experience

 

John Schlicher has represented companies in patent infringement actions and many other patent disputes for thirty-five years.  Those actions involving polymers, diagnostic methods and reagents, molecular sieves, microbial production processes, biotechnology products, medical devices and instruments, analytical and research instruments, image-based document processing systems, computer systems, computer components, video signal processing, digital data recording and processing, data storage media, semiconductor devices, semiconductor processing and equipment, instant photography, office copiers, optometric instruments, and many other areas. 

 

Clients he has represented in patent disputes include Alps Electric, BASF, Becton Dickinson, Corning Incorporated, Dolby Laboratories, Fairchild Semiconductor, Genentech, Rambus, Samsung Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric, Ricoh, and Varian Associates.

 

Some of those patent infringement actions were Mitchell v. Samsung Electronics (for Samsung defending a claim based on a multiprocessor architecture patent), Drexler v. Dolby Laboratories (for Dolby defending claims based on digital data recording and processing patents), International Rectifier v. Samsung Electronics (for Samsung defending a contempt charge based on a power MOSFET design patent), Fujitsu v. Samsung Electronics (for Samsung defending claims based on DRAM and SRAM semiconductor memory device and semiconductor manufacturing process patents), IXYS v. Fairchild Semiconductor (for Fairchild defending a claim based on a power MOSFET design patent), Samsung v. Quanta, Compal; Samsung v. Arima, Inventec; Samsung v. Twinhead (for Samsung asserting claims based on several patents related to notebook computer design and components), Censtor v. Samsung Electronics, (for Samsung defending claims based on disk drive read-write head patents), Rambus v. Hitachi and Hitachi Semiconductor (for Rambus asserting claims based on SDRAM memory devices and modules and defending against claims for antitrust violations), Micron Technology v. Rambus (for Rambus defending antitrust and patent unenforceability claims related to Rambus memory patents), Organon Teknika v. Becton Dickinson (for Becton Dickinson defending a claim based on a mycobacteria blood assay patent), Union Carbide v. BASF (defending BASF against claims based on polyether polyol and polyurethane patents), Schoofs v. Union Carbide (for Schoofs asserting claims based on products employing zeolite molecular sieves), Becton Dickinson v. BioRad (for BioRad defending claims based on diagnostic assay patents), University of California v. Genentech (for Genentech defending claims based genetic materials), Amgen v. Cetus (for Cetus defending claims based in interleukin 2 patents), Eli Lilly v. BASF (for BASF defending claims based on herbicide patents), Snellman v. Ricoh (for Ricoh defending claims based on office copier collator patents).

 

Patent Experience

 

Some of his patent work in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical fields has been to represent Bristol-Myers Squibb on cephalosporin antibiotic patents, Genentech on a variety of biotechnology patents, Cetus on a variety of biotechnology patents, Chiron on biotechnology patents, BioGrowth on insulin-like growth factor binding protein patents, InSite Vision on ophthalmic drug patents, Santen Pharmaceuticals on ophthalmic drug patents, Children’s Hospital Medical Center on potential drugs for treatment of sickle-cell anemia, and Stanford University on microbial expression of antibodies.  He has worked on biotechnology patent matters involving DNA synthesis, recombinant DNA techniques for cloning and expression, protein purification and characterization, assaying and testing biological activity, diagnostic assay and therapeutic techniques using monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, and human and animal therapeutic methods.   

 

Some of his work in the diagnostics field has been to represent BioRad on a variety of immunoassay patents, Syva on a variety of assay patents, Becton Dickinson on assays and systems for detection of mycobacteria, and Becton Dickinson on patents for blood glucose monitoring.  Some of his work in the analytical and research field includes representing Cetus on polymerase chain reaction products and methods, Perkin-Elmer on PCR, and Corning Incorporated on diagnostic equipment.  Some of his work in the field of general chemistry includes representing BASF on herbicide patents, BASF on a variety of polymers and polymerization methods, Symyx on methods for combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening, Bridgestone-Firestone on polymers and additives, Schoofs Inc. on zeolite molecular sieves, Standard Brands on enzymatic conversion of sugars, and Nagase on microbial production of fatty acids.

 

 

JOHN W. SCHLICHER

PATENTS, PATENT LITIGATION, PATENT DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND

SETTLEMENT, LICENSING, ANTITRUST, LAW AND ECONOMICS