Marc V. Richards

Mr. Richards has extensive experience handling both U.S. patents and International patents in software, business methods, pharmaceuticals, and chemical processes.  In particular, he has prepared and obtained patents in diverse technologies such as virtual reality, financial services, insurance processing, user interfaces, e-commerce, consulting services, anti-cancer therapeutics, pharmaceutical compounds, combinatorial chemistry, polymers, films, contact lenses, medical devices, industrial coatings, thermoplastic moldings, industrial cryogenics, automotive components and toys.   He also has handled reexamination and interference proceedings for software patents and chemical process patents.

Mr. Richards has drafted license agreements, prepared joint research and development agreements, prepared non-infringement and invalidity studies for a variety of subject matter in pharmaceutical, chemical, food processing and automobile industries, conducted due diligence review of target company patent portfolios, prepared confidential disclosure and employee non-competition agreements, and advised clients in other Intellectual Property related issues such as trademark and copyright law.

Mr. Richards has prepared appellate briefs before Federal Circuit.  He has handled discovery, pre-trial and trial procedural and substantive matters in patent litigation: prepared motions, briefs, discovery requests, and expert reports; taken and defended depositions; and inspected industrial processes accused of infringing activity.  He has also investigated trade secret and employee termination disputes and obtained favorable resolution of legal disputes for clients.

• Leading Intellectual Property Lawyer, Leading Lawyers Network, Law Bulletin Publishing Company, 2006, 2007, 2009
• American Jurisprudence Award, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Antitrust, Property, Civil Procedure
• Editor, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
• Contributing Editor, Loyola University Chicago Consumer Reporter, Loyola University Chicago
  
   

• US 7,126,558 Industrial Augmented Reality
• US 7,020,621 Method for Determining Total Cost of Ownership
• US 7,013,284 Component Based Interface to Handle Tasks During Claim Processing
• US 6,895,383 Overall Risk in a System
• US 6,869,686 Irradiated Biaxially-Oriented Film

• Maziuk v. Ritzenthaler, Patent Interference 105,693 McK (Patent Board of Appeals & Interferences).  Subject:  Interference proceeding involving U.S. Patent No. 7,481,987 directed to flue gas desulfurization technology.  Resolution:  Case settled.
• First Health Group v. Allcare Health Mgmt System Inc., Case No. IL N-1:01cv1790 (Northern District of Illinois).  Subject:  Declaratory judgment action filed by medical insurance provider against patentee seeking declaration of patent invalidity, non-infringement, and unenforceability.  Resolution:  Case settled before trial.
• Allcare Health Mgmt System, Inc. v. Advance Paradigm, Inc., et al., Case No. 400-CV-1683-E (Northern District of Texas-Fort Worth Division).  Subject:  Patent infringement action asserted against defendants' pharmaceutical benefit computer systems. Resolution:  Case settled before trial.
• S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc. v. The B.F. Goodrich Company, Case No.98 C 0052 S (Western District of Wisconsin).  Subject:  Infringement and validity of three patents relating to bulk polymerization process for making acrylic copolymers.  Resolution:  Two patent counts withdrawn before tria.  The remaining count was settled at beginning of trial.

• "Patent Practice in the Wake of In re Bilski," co-author, Intellectual Property Owners Association, March 2009.
• "Intellectual Property Law Handbook, Chapter 1: Patenting Inventions," Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), 2008 edition.
• "News Updates from the USPTO," IPLAC Newsletter, Winter 2005.

• "Process Patents and Claim Drafting Tips After Bilski," Chicago Bar Association, June 11, 2010
• "Patents Update: Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute for Corporate Counsel," Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), April 13, 2007 and April 24, 2008
• "Recent Developments in Patent Law: 1st Annual Intellectual Property Institute," Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), December 11-12, 2008

• American Bar Association
  YLD-IP Subcommittee, Board Member, 1994-1995
• Chicago Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago
  Board of Managers, 2002-2004
• Intellectual Property Owners Association

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