About Jeremy Pitcock

Experience

Mr. Pitcock’s current practice involves counseling clients in all areas of intellectual property, with a particular emphasis on patent litigation. Mr. Pitcock serves as lead counsel on various patent matters, and has been involved in all aspects of trial and appellate practice before Federal courts, and has successfully argued at various summary judgment and Markman hearings. Mr. Pitcock has litigated patent matters in several diverse fields, including Internet and mobile applicaitons, authenticaiton technology, fiber optic networks and various optical components, network and microprocessor architecture, computer software, Ethernet routing and communications, semiconductor manufacturing and fabrication, videoconferencing equipment and protocols as well as pharmaceutical inventions and business methods. Mr. Pitcock also has served as lead counsel in copyright (including computer-related matters), trademark and trade secret litigation.

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School, Juris Doctor, 1998

Public Service Award – U.S. Attorney’s Office

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science in Physics, Minor in Literature, 1994

Editor, Intermediate Astrophysics (graduate-level text by Prof. Hale Bradt)
Teaching Assistant, Special Relativity (taught by Prof. Alan Jaffe)
Captain, Varsity Football Team – 1st Team All Conference

Current Lead Counsel Representations

• Wireless Ink v. Facebook, et. al.. Lead counsel for plaintiff Wireless Ink in two patent infringement cases pending against Facebook, Google, YouTube and MySpace involving Wireless Ink's multiple mobile website technology patents. The case is pending in Federal court in New York City.
• Intergen v. GoIP Global, et. al. Lead counsel for defendants in patent infringement and trade secret case involving text and Internet technology with counterclaims. The case is pending in Federal court in New York City.
• Authenex v. Vasco. Lead counsel for plaintiff Authenex in a patent infringement case involving strong authentication devices. The case settled and was pending in Federal Court in Los Angeles.

Selected Speeches and Publications

• Patent Injunctions Are No Longer Automatic, But Only "Patent Trolls" May Lose The Power Of Injunctive Relief In Practice (Authored client memo)
• Entitled To No Deference: The Federal Circuit’s Decision In Cybor Corp. v. FAS Tech., Inc. (Drafted paper and Powerpoint presentation for lecture given during the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s Fifth Bench and Bar Conference)
• Answers To Frequently Asked Questions About Intellectual Property And How To Avoid Common Mistakes When Obtaining A Patent (Drafted Powerpoint presentation and gave lecture to MIT Mechanical Engineering Honor Society in Cambridge, MA)
• Has The Federal Circuit Finally Sunk Submarine Patents? The Doctrine Of Prosecution Laches Rises Again And May Render The Lemelson Patents Unenforceable (Co-authored client memo)
• Patents: Section 112 and New Developments in Software/Business Method Patents (Drafted presentation and gave lecture as part of the 5th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Litigation for Law Seminars International in San Francisco, CA)
• Business Method Patents (Drafted presentation and gave lecture as part of Law Seminars International Program entitled Doing Business Online: U.S. and Canada in Vancouver, BC)
• Protecting Your Invention: How To Obtain A Patent While Avoiding Patent Pitfalls (Drafted presentation and gave lecture to MIT Mechanical Engineering Honor Society in Cambridge, MA)
• U.S. Business Method Patents and Their Impact On Japanese Corporations (Drafted presentation for lecture given to The Japanese Institute of International Business Law)
• Describing Software Inventions Under 35 U.S.C. § 112, First Paragraph (Drafted presentation for lecture at Stanford University forum)

Professional Credentials

Admitted to New York State (1999); Southern District of New York (2003); Eastern District of New York (2003); Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (2007); Registered -- United States Patent and Trademark Office (2001).