Taft partner Jason Houdek co-presented in the Stafford webinar “Patent Design Arounds for Utility and Design Patents,” on June 24. The CLE program guides patent counsel on leveraging design arounds to reduce the risk of patent infringement. The panel of presenters also discuss what counsel can do when drafting patent applications to minimize competitors’ likelihood of designing around the patent, as well as maximizing chances to cover competitors’ design arounds.

For further details and to view the webinar on-demand, please click here.

Houdek focuses his practice on patent and other intellectual property matters. Houdek has litigated patent and trade secret disputes in federal court and challenged and defended patent assets in administrative proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent offices. Houdek helps clients avoid and mitigate the risk of patent assertions by leading freedom to operate investigations, guiding design-around efforts, and building non-infringement and invalidity positions against competitive patent portfolios. He assists clients in obtaining patents with an eye toward creating strategic intellectual property assets and enhancing his clients’ offensive patent capabilities.