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Matt Phillips
Founding Partner
Laurence & Phillips IP Law
Matt Phillips is a founding partner at Laurence & Phillips IP Law, a firm that has been recognized multiple times by US News & World Reports as one of the top fifty Tier 1 firms nationwide for patent law. Formerly, he was a partner at an AmLaw 200 firm, law clerk for Judge Alan D. Lourie at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, patent examiner at the USPTO, and communications systems engineer. Matt has a doctorate degree in electrical engineering.
Matt’s practice focuses on review proceedings at the PTAB, reexaminations, and reissues. He created and taught the “Post-Grant Patent Practice” course for Patent Resources Group for eleven years and is a co-author of a two-volume treatise of the same name. He has also taught as an adjunct law school professor. He has published over 40 articles on post-grant patent topics and been an invited speaker around the country and internationally on post-grant topics.
Recent Articles by Matt Phillips
Patently Strategic Podcast: PTAB Survival Guide
The most terrifying thing that can happen to a patent owner is receiving an inter partes review (IPR) petition. This is a tool that accused infringers can use to invalidate patents. And they have … to alarming effect. As we’ve discussed, the kill rate at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is staggering. The PTAB – or, as regular listeners of this audience more commonly know it, the “Patent Death Squad” – has racked up a claim execution rate north of 84% and the death of thousands of valid patents at the hands of infringers looking to profit from innovations they didn’t invest in to create. This is an institution that is clearly out of balance and screaming for reform.
