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Philippe J.C. Signore, Ph.D.
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PHILIPPE J.C. SIGNORE is a partner in the firm's Electrical/Mechanical and Litigation Practice Groups, and heads the firm's Design Patent Protection Practice. His practice encompasses all areas of patent law including obtaining utility and design patents, reexaminations, reissues, drafting legal opinions, licensing, and enforcing patents. His technical experience covers a wide range of technologies for applications in the aerospace, automotive, energy, consumer electronics, computer hardware and software, and packaging industries.
Dr. Signore received his Law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1994 from the University of Florida, where he studied superconductivity, low temperature physics, and magnetic materials.
Dr. Signore is admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, the Virginia State Bar and is licensed to practice before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Licensing Executive Society, the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association, and the American Physical Society.
Dr. Signore is French/English bilingual. He teaches a class on U.S. patent law at the Center for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) in Strasbourg, France. In 2002, Dr. Signore was the recipient of the 30th Annual Rossman Award as the author of the article in the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society "that made the greatest contribution to the fields of Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights."
Related News, Articles & Presentations - Patent Reform: The Debate Continues Into 2010 (Articles)
Jan 2010 - A Comparative Analysis of the Inventive Step Standard in the European and Japanese Patent Offices from a U.S. Perspective (Articles)
IP Litigator, January/February 2008, pp. 15-23 Feb 2008 - La saga des nouvelles règles d'examen définies par l' USPTO (Presentations)
Presented at a conference on US Patent Law in Grenoble, France, December 2007 Dec 2007 - The New Standard for Willful infringement after In Re SEAGATE (Presentations)
Presented at a conference on US Patent Law in Grenoble, France, December 2007 Dec 2007 - KSR - Revisiting the Obviousness Puzzle (Presentations)
Presented at the ASPI Conference, Paris, France: DROIT DES BREVETS AUX ETATS-UNIS - REVUE DE JURISPRUDENCE 2006-2007 Oct 2007 - Vers une réforme du système américain de brevets ? (Presentations)
Presented at the French National Institute for Intellectual Property (INPI) Nov 23, 2006 - KSR v. Teleflex: Re-visiting the obviousness puzzle (Presentations)
Presented at the ASPI Conference, Paris, France: "DROIT DES BREVETS AUX ETATS-UNIS - REVUE DE JURISPRUDENCE 2005-2006" Oct 3, 2006 - The eBay case, its progeny and the law of injunctions (Presentations)
Presented at the ASPI Conference, Paris, France: "DROIT DES BREVETS AUX ETATS-UNIS - REVUE DE JURISPRUDENCE 2005-2006" Oct 3, 2006 - Protecting Financial Innovations with US Patents (Presentations)
Presented at the 7th Bank University, Eurogroup Consulting Alliance, Paris, France June 9, 2006 - Protection of Industrial Designs in the United States (Articles)
European Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 27, No. 7 at 256 Jul 2005 - Reexamining Reexaminations (Articles)
Mar 2005 - Mine Your Own Business - Finance-Related Companies Invest in Obtaining and Enforcing Business Method Patents
IP Litigator, Vol. 10, No. 6, pg. 19 Nov/Dec 2004 - The Impact of U.S. Patents on International Business (Articles)
Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), Issue 144, pg. 28 Nov 2004 - Finance Companies Rush to Patent Business Methods (Japanese translation) (Articles)
Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, Vol. 32, No. 8 2004 - Finance Companies Rush To Patent Business Methods (Articles)
Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), Issue 136, pg. 35; Republished in IP Litigator, Nov/Dec 2004, Vol. 10, No. 6, with the original title: Mine Your Own Business - Finance-Related Companies Invest in Obtaining and Enforcing Business Method Patents." Feb 2004 - Finance business method patents in the U.S. (Presentations)
Jan 2004 - U.S. Design Patents: An Underdog That Bites (Japanese translation) (Articles)
International Legal Strategy (ILS), Vol. 12-8 Aug 2003 - An "Opposition" To The Recently Proposed Legislation Related To Business Method Patents (Articles)
20 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 397 Spring 2002 - U.S. Design Patents: An Underdog That Bites (Articles)
Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), Issue 124, page 19. Nov 2002 - There Is Something Fishy About A Presumption Of Obviousness (Articles)
84 Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society 148 Feb 2002 - On the Role of Juries in Patent Litigation (Articles)
83 Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, No. 11, November 2001 (Part 1); No. 12, December 2001 (Part 2) Nov/Dec 2001 - The Benefits of Provisional Applications (Articles)
Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), Issue 114, Nov 2001 - Design Patent Protection in the United States (Articles)
epi Information Journal, 2/2001 (June), pages 81-87 Jul 2001 - Pardon Our Dust: US Patent Law Under Renovation (Articles)
Managing Intellectual Property, Issue 109, page 23 May 2001 - The New Provisional Rights Provision (Articles)
82 Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society 742 Oct 2000
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