Andrea G Reister

Clients seek Andrea Reister for their most important patent office matters. She has preserved and secured hundreds of millions of dollars of value in post-issuance proceedings, patent prosecution and portfolio management, and in transactional due diligence counsel. Her clients routinely cite the span of her technical expertise, her ability to work under demanding deadlines, and her ability to win for them before the PTO, in district court jury trials, in Hatch-Waxman ANDA litigation, and in ITC proceedings. Ms. Reister briefs and argues appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), and leads post-issuance proceedings in the PTO, often in conjunction with multi-party district court litigation. She achieves highly successful outcomes for her clients in computer and communications technologies, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), wireless and ADSL; computer virus protection; cell phone messaging; pharmaceutical formulations and vaccines; and medical devices. Ms. Reister chairs the firm’s Patent Reexamination, Prosecution, and Advisory Practice. Her clients routinely seek her counsel on Hatch-Waxman pre-litigation audits, worldwide portfolio development and management, including strategic advice for offensive and defensive patent procurement, and for competitor landscape evaluation. REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS Post-Issuance Proceedings Representation of multiple requesters, including The New York Times Company and CBS Interactive, in six inter partes reexamination proceedings and one inter partes review proceeding relating to patents held by Helferich Patent Licensing, LLC. The patents relate to cell phone messaging and are the subject of co-pending litigation in which the requesters are defendants. All of the inter partes reexamination requests have been granted, and all requested claims rejected. A filing date has been granted in the recently filed inter partes review proceeding. Representation of a major pharmaceutical company in inter partes reexamination of three patents directed to methods of evaluating and improving safety of vaccine immunization schedules. The patents have been the subject of Federal Circuit and Supreme Court review relating to patent subject matter eligibility, and the case is now back in the District Court for a determination of the remaining validity and infringement issues. All three requests have been granted, and all claims for which reexamination was requested have been rejected. Successful representation of Alkermes, Inc., the top patent owner of Orange Book listed patents in reexamination, in ex parte reexamination proceedings and worldwide opposition proceedings initiated by competitors. Six of the seven patents successfully emerged from reexamination and remain listable for the VIVITROL® and RISPERDAL® CONSTA® products. Successful defense of patents owned by Trend Micro Incorporated, Fujitsu Limited, and Verizon in reexamination proceedings initiated by third parties. On behalf of Verizon, successful inter partes reexamination challenge to third party patents directed to video recording and patents directed to VoIP. More Representative Matters PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Chief Engineer, Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station. Responsible for undersea weapons testing and development of remote-controlled submarine target, robotic systems for torpedo recovery, and awarded the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal. Ms. Reister served as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve, and qualified as an Engineering Duty HONORS AND RANKINGS Washington DC Super Lawyers, Intellectual Property Litigation (2013) LMG Life Sciences, “Life Science Star” (2012) IAM Patent 1000 - The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners (2012) Legal 500 US, Intellectual Property - Patent Prosecution (2012) Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, Department of the Navy MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia GAYLAW Supreme Court of the United States, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and District Court for the District of Columbia