Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, welcomed patent litigator John Gresens to its Chicago office just weeks after announcing that the Chicago team has more than quadrupled in size since the office opened in 2014. He arrives at Akerman as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group, and enhances the firm’s ability to serve global clients in complex cross-border matters and multiple-party disputes.
“We are committed to helping our clients effectively compete and protect their intellectual property in today’s global economy,” said Michael Switzer, co-chair of Akerman’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. “John is a consummate litigator whose impressive technical background and breadth of experience in cross-border patent disputes will be a tremendous asset to clients seeking to develop new markets throughout the world.”
Gresens focuses his practice on patent litigation, strategic counseling and opinions, as well as Inter Partes matters at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. His experience includes cross-border representation to seize new market opportunities through patent enforcement, licensing arrangements and protection. His practice includes representing U.S.-based clients doing business abroad and foreign-based clients doing business in the United States. He has managed world-wide patent enforcement campaigns and has tried cases in U.S. federal courts and before the International Trade Commission (ITC). In addition, Gresens has secured hundreds of patents and has successfully represented clients in reexamination, reissue and interference proceedings in anticipation of, and during, litigation. Throughout his 30-year career, he has assisted public and private companies in achieving their commercial objectives, often reaching settlement in patent disputes through complicated multi-party negotiations. His clients include companies within the chemical and high-tech manufacturing sectors, among others.
Gresens is past chair of a number of American Bar Association (ABA) Committees and also served as president of the Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association and a member of the ABA’s Intellectual Property Law Council. In addition, he is an active member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and served as a member of the editorial board for the AIPLA Quarterly Journal. He is a past adjunct professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Hamline University School of Law.
Akerman’s Chicago office has quickly become a key center for international IP matters, with an emphasis on patent and trade secret litigation, patent prosecution and counseling in the United States, Asia and Europe. The team is part of Akerman’s deep bench of IP lawyers in Chicago, New York, Denver, Washington D.C. and South Florida, who are experienced in all aspects of IP law across a range of industries, including chemical, pharmaceutical and life sciences; entertainment, fashion and sports sectors; high technology and consumer electronics; and manufacturing, microprocessor and semiconductor sectors.
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