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Doug Wilson
Founding Partner, Armond Wilson
Douglas Wilson, Founding Partner at Armond Wilson, is an award-winning trial attorney commended for his “outstanding trial skills” and “impressive post-grant talents” in the 2018 IAM 1000 rankings. He litigates a wide variety of intellectual property disputes spanning patents, trade secrets, antitrust, and appeals in the state and federal courts. He has handled dozens of inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board at the U.S. Patent Office, and has the distinction of successfully arguing the very first inter partes review resulting in a decision confirming patentability of all challenged claims. A former partner at the litigation firm Heim, Payne & Chorush LLP, Doug has served as lead counsel in numerous cases.
A registered patent attorney, Doug’s combination of technical and legal fluency is valued by clients, technical experts, and media outlets. Drawing on his prior engineering career, Doug’s expertise covers an array of technical fields. He has handled litigation involving microprocessors, graphics processors, video games, cellular telephones, web design, computer software, oilfield equipment, and pharmaceuticals.
Doug is ranked as a top patent professional in the IAM 1000 (2018-2021), and has been recognized as among the Best Lawyers in America by BL Rankings (2017-2022) and a top-rated “Super Lawyer” in intellectual property litigation by Thomson Reuters (2017-2021). He is a member of the executive committee of the Honorable Lee Yeakel IP American Inn of Court.
Doug served as a judicial law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.
Recent Articles by Doug Wilson
Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) often occur in parallel to district court cases. Patent owners whose patent rights survive IPR may return to district court at a distinct advantage, not only by emerging with their patent rights intact, but also by capitalizing on events during the IPR and using them to their advantage in district court litigation. Real-party-in-interest disputes can be hotly contested before the Board. An order from the Northern District of Illinois shows that these disputes can have larger significance and impact petitioners in litigation. In that order, the Illinois federal court relied on the Board’s fact-finding from an IPR dispute over the petitioner’s identification of real-parties-in-interest to find that petitioner had waived the attorney-client privilege in the litigation. RTC Indus., Inc. v. Fasteners for Retail, Inc., No. 17-cv-03595, 2019 WL 5003681 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 8, 2019).