Brian is a trial lawyer with extensive experience in all aspects of patent litigation. He is also a registered attorney at the US Patent Office and helps clients navigate post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Brian led the defense of biotech firm Ravgen’s patents against a series of ten inter partes review petitions against some of the largest diagnostic testing companies in the world. Brian secured decisions upholding all claims of Ravgen’s patents as lead counsel at the PTAB. Brian also argued appeals of the IPRs at the Federal Circuit and again secured decisions affirming all claims of the Ravgen patents. The Ravgen patents Brian defended were asserted in district court, where Brian and the Desmarais LLP team secured a $272.5 million jury verdict and an additional $100 million in enhanced damages for willful infringement against Labcorp, and secured a $57 million verdict for Ravgen against Natera.
Brian was also a key member of the Desmarais LLP team that represented IBM in its first jury trial as a patentee in decades. During the trial, Brian conducted the examination of an IBM licensing executive who provided the basis for IBM’s damages claims. The trial ended in an $82.5 million jury verdict finding all four asserted IBM patents valid and willfully infringed.
Brian also assists clients with offensive and defensive pre-suit investigations and patent assertion strategy. He has extensive experience advising clients in patent licensing and settlement negotiations, and he regularly advises clients on developing and maintaining patent portfolios.
Prior to joining Desmarais LLP, Brian was a patent agent and associate at Ropes & Gray, where he gained significant experience in patent prosecution and managing large patent portfolios before focusing on patent litigation. Brian is also a named inventor on U.S. Patent No. 8,496,655, which covers a catheter-based medical device for removing heart valves during minimally-invasive heart surgery.
Prior Experience
- Associate, Ropes & Gray LLP, 2014-2016
- Patent Agent, Ropes & Gray LLP, 2009-2014
Courts
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit