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Philip Segrest

is a partner in Husch Blackwell LLP’s St. Louis office and belongs to the firm’s Technology, Manufacturing & Transportation industry group. Philip is an experienced litigator in patent and intellectual property matters in a wide variety of technologies and a registered patent attorney with a technical background in physics and computer related technologies. He has particular depth of experience managing pharmaceutical patent litigation under Abbreviated New Drug Act (ANDA), helping generic manufacturers bring their products to market at affordable, competitive prices. Philip also has extensive litigation and patent prosecution experience in information and computer related technologies, including data compression, e-commerce systems, business methods and other technologies in electrical, mechanical and chemical technical arts.

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Recent Articles by Philip Segrest

TC Heartland Update: Federal Circuit decides ZTE and Bigcommerce

Of the many lingering issues left in TC Heartland’s wake for domestic corporations, a Federal Circuit panel resolved several of them recently. In In re ZTE (USA), No. 2018-113, the court addressed two of the most common issues dogging appeals over the application of § 1400(b): whose law governs burden, and where does that burden lie. In In re Bigcommerce, No. 2018-120, the court addressed the territorial bounds mapped by the phrase “judicial district” in § 1400(b). Judge Linn authored both.