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Patent Litigation Experience John Schlicher has represented companies in more than 25 patent infringement actions and in many other patent disputes 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, Bridgestone-Firestone, Corning Incorporated, Dolby Laboratories, Fairchild Semiconductor, Genentech, Rambus, Samsung Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric, Ricoh, and Varian Associates. 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 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. He has done work on enzymatic and microbial production of antibiotics (Bristol-Myers), sugars (Standard Brands), and fatty acids (Nagase). Some of his work in the diagnostics field has been to represent BioRad on a variety of radioimmunoassay 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 IBM on chemicals for use as toner in office copying. |
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JOHN W. SCHLICHER |
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PATENTS, PATENT LITIGATION, PATENT DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND SETTLEMENT, LICENSING, ANTITRUST, LAW AND ECONOMICS |