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Joshua Shetler
Associate
Haynes Boone
Joshua Shetler is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Haynes Boone’s Dallas-North office where his practice focuses on patent office trials, patent prosecution, and patent counseling.
Previously, Joshua served as a law clerk at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, where he supported Administrative Patent Judges through all phases of inter partes review proceedings and ex parte appeals. In addition to helping draft multiple final written decisions, Joshua worked with the Director Review and Director Discretionary Denial panels by providing legal and technical analyses.
Joshua brings this experience to help clients with patent strategy, quality control, and technical analysis across high-priority, fast-paced legal and engineering settings.
Recent Articles by Joshua Shetler
Destroying the Intended Purpose of a Reference May Not Be a ‘Golden Ticket’ to Patentability
A patent claim of invention is considered obvious, and thus unpatentable, in light of a combination of prior art references if a person of ordinary skill in the art (POSITA) would have had a reason, or motivation, to combine the references as recited in the claim. There are responses, or defenses, to such a finding of obviousness, including if the combination renders the reference unsatisfactory or inoperable for its intended purpose – also called “frustration of purpose.