02/05: The Communication Wizard

Best Practices Workshop

The Communication Wizard will discuss the “six deadly sins” of written and oral communication, and then direct a series of vignettes to demonstrate best practices.


Moderator: Stacy Lewis, Finnegan, Washington, DC

Instructor: Tom Irving, Finnegan, Washington, DC


Vignette Actors:
Elizabeth Dougherty, USPTO, Alexandria, VA
Aisha Mahmood Haley, Reichman Jorgensen, Washington, DC
Hira Javed, American University College of Law, Washington, DC
Anna Ziskind Lloyd, Oblon
Leon Lum, Novo Nordisk
Ted Mayle, Kilpatrick Townsend
Angela Nieves, St. Thomas University College of Law, Miami Gardens, FL
Gabe Olander, Applied Materials
Laura Powell, Fish & Richardson, Washington, DC
Meredith Schoenfeld, USPTO, Alexandria, VA
Vlad Semendyai, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, DC
Aastha Tandon, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Brian Trotter, Bishop Rock, Austin, TX
Chris Weber
Bruce Wu, Nutcracker Therapeutics, 

To view bios and headshots of our vignette actors, click here.

Speakers

• Irving, Thomas L.

  The Marbury Law Group, PLLC | Senior Partner

  Tom Irving is Senior Partner at the Marbury Law Group with some 50 years of experience in the field of intellectual property law. My practice emphasizes patent law experting, due diligence investigations, Orange Book listings, and counseling and opinion work, particularly on ODP and MPF. I successfully reissued the patent for the drug Lovenox®, a blockbuster product, and represented targets Agouron, Principia Biopharma, and Endocyte in patent work resulting in deals respectively garnering $2.1, $3.68, and $2.1 billion USD, as publicly reported. I filed an expert report and was cross examined on prosecution laches for CureVac against BioNTech /Pfizer. In settlement, CureVac received $740 million and a running royalty on Covid-19 vaccine sales in the U.S. I have also filed two expert reports dealing with inequitable conduct and one on duty of care in patent filing and prosecution. 
• Lewis, Stacy

  Finnegan Henderson | Law Clerk

  Co-authored dozens of articles about U.S. patent law including extensive writing on U.S. patent law, planning and executing effective patent prosecution, conducting due diligence assessments; Skilled Law Clerk at intellectual property law firm Finnegan in chemical practice group for over 25 years;