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12.12.14 | Christopher L. McKee

Christopher McKee has focused on patent litigation, counseling and prosecution throughout his career. His concentration is in the mechanical and electrical/computer related arts.

Mr. McKee has extensive experience in handling litigation-related patent reexaminations, as well as new post-grant proceedings available under the America Invents Act. Since enactment of the AIA, his practice has been largely devoted to handling of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He served as lead counsel on behalf of the patent owner in two of the earliest filed IPRs. One of those (IPR 2012-00041) was the first to conclude in denial of the IPR petition in its entirety. The other (IPR 2012-00042) was the first IPR to result in a final written decision upholding the bulk of the patent claims in the trial.

The AIA review proceedings and reexaminations he has handled have involved a variety of art areas, including electronic design automation (EDA), computer networking/digital data transmission and dynamic system control.

In addition, Mr. McKee has substantial experience in patent litigation and licensing matters, and he has prepared and successfully prosecuted scores of patent applications, in numerous technologies. These include EDA, integrated circuit fabrication, computer (hardware and software), telecommunications, medical device and machine tool technologies, and consumer appliances.

Mr. McKee began his career in intellectual property law with the USPTO, where he served as a patent examiner from 1984-86. There, he examined patent applications in a variety of arts, including metal founding and metal fusion bonding. Mr. McKee’s early experience as a patent examiner has given him a particular sensitivity to examiner concerns, enabling him to negotiate cases to allowance with great effectiveness.

Mr. McKee serves as an adjunct law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching a class on Intellectual Property Litigation, Pretrial Skills. He previously served as a faculty member for Patent Resources Group’s bi-annual patent bar review course, and as a steering committee member of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia’s Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section. Mr. McKee chaired the firm’s New Attorney Education program from 2003 – 2009, and remains active as a presenter in that program.

Mr. McKee earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University in 1983, and his Juris Doctor from the National Law Center of George Washington University in 1988. He is admitted to the bars of Virginia and the District of Columbia, and to practice before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. McKee practices in the Washington, D.C. office of Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.


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