Roger W. Parkhurst

Partner

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Roger W. Parkhurst is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Intellectual Property group, concentrating on patent, trademark, trade dress, and unfair competition litigation.

For over 35 years, Mr. Parkhurst has litigated a variety of intellectual property disputes, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade dress infringement allegations, and patent/antitrust claims. Mr. Parkhurst also has successfully litigated important patent interferences before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, and trademark opposition/cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, in the US PTO.

Mr. Parkhurst has advised an array of enterprises on policies and procedures for identifying, evaluating, and protecting their intellectual property, and has written hundreds of patent infringement/validity opinions.

Mr. Parkhurst is recognized by his peers as a leading member of the intellectual property bar. He was elected president of the American Intellectual Property Association for the 2001-2002 term. Mr. Parkhurst has been selected by his peers continuously since 2001 for inclusion in the Patent Law section of the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. He also has acted as an expert witness in patent/antitrust cases and patent infringement cases. He is frequently called upon to speak about topics relating to intellectual property, and presented mock Markman hearings and closing arguments at PLI in New York, annually 2000-2005.

Mr. Parkhurst is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court, the US Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Third, and Fourth Circuits, and in the US District Courts for the District of Columbia, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, and other US District courts.

Noteworthy

• Listed in Who's Who Legal for Patents (2005 - 2011)
• Listed in International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers (2005 - 2011); recognized in 2007 as an "authority" on patent litigation and as a "very knowledgeable and prominent member of the intellectual property bar.”
• Euromoney's Expert Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners (2010) 

Select News & Events

• Appellate Victory at the Federal Circuit
• After Ariad v. Lilly: Implications and Best Practices, April 27, 2010, (A Steptoe-Sponsored Event)
• Law360 Quotes Roger Parkhurst on the Top IP Cases of the Decade
• Speaker for "Using Expert Witnesses…to Win Patent Cases; Choosing and Presenting Experts—and Defusing the Other Side's Experts" PLI, San Francisco, October 2, 2007
• 18 Steptoe Attorneys Selected for Who's Who Legal
• Teleconference: The Implications of KSR v. Teleflex, June 5, 2007, (A Steptoe-Sponsored Event)
• Teleconference: US Supreme Court Revisits Non-Obviousness, Ultimate Test of Inventions' Patentability, September 28, 2006, (A Steptoe-Sponsored Event)
• Roger Parkhurst Conducts Obviousness Cross-Examination for PLI, November 7, 2005
• Roger Parkhurst Speaks on Patent Litigation and 337 for SGMA, June 22, 2005
• Steptoe Adds Partner, Counsel To IP Practice

Selected Publications

• Listen to the Audio Transcript of the 9/28/2006 Teleconference: US Supreme Court Revisits Non-Obviousness, Ultimate Test of Inventions' Patentability in MP3
  September 28, 2006

Professional Affiliations

• American Intellectual Property Law Association, President, 2001-2002
• District of Columbia Bar
• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Intellectual Property Owners Association
• Virginia State Bar