Harper, Blaney

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Blaney Harper's practice focuses on representing electronics, software, and information technology companies in strategic patent litigation, including patent portfolio evaluation and enforcement, in United States District Courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC).

Blaney's experience covers a broad cross-section of technology, including semiconductor structures, microprocessor architecture, memory, application-specific integrated circuits, and related hardware and software for applications such as wireless communications, fiber-optic networks, distributed computing, digital image processing, computational linguistics, computer controlled radiology, computer peripherals, accelerometers, and other electronic sensors.

Blaney took a lead role in trying the patent infringement defense of several semiconductor manufacturers concerning their ball grid array (BGA) packaging products before the ITC (In re Certain Semiconductor Chips with Minimized Chip Package Size and Products Containing Same, Investigation No. 337-TA-605). He has had similar leading roles in enforcing digital camera portfolios (Eastman Kodak Company v. Sony, et al., Civil Action No. 04-CV-6095T(F)) and in defending against claims concerning internet infrastructure equipment (Tantivy Communications, Inc. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc., Civil Action No. 2-04-CV79 (TJW)).

Blaney also represents and counsels clients concerning patent portfolio development and patent prosecution, including appeal and post-grant proceedings, in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• Corporate Compliance Programs
• Patent Litigation
• Patent Prosecution
• Copyrights & Trademarks
• ITC Section 337

Representative Cases

• Ateliers De La Haute Garonne ets Auriol pursues ITC patent investigation over aerospace rivets , (2009)
• Elekta Instrument defends patent infringement charges over surgical medical device technology
• Freescale defends against claims of patent infringement brought by Tessera before the ITC , (2009)
• Freescale defends against ITC patent infringement investigation involving process for making integrated circuits , (2008)
• GE pursues patent infringement charges against Nintendo involving signal generator and other devices
• Hand Held Products resolves patent infringement dispute over scanners and imaging
• IBM defends against infringement charges over computer mouse patent
• IBM defends against patent defamation claim involving cable-modem device
• Kodak pursues patent infringement suits against Sony involving digital camera technology
• Lucent and AT&T defend patent infringement charges by Phonetel over telephone equipment
• Lucent and AT&T pursue patent infringement suit against Collins involving telecommunications technology
• Lucent defends against patent infringement charges involving cellular technology
• Lucent defends against several patent infringement actions over CDMA technology
• Lucent Technologies and AT&T defend against patent infringement action instituted by Collins
• M.I.C. Industries maintains global patent portfolios for portable machinery used in building construction
• Motorola and Freescale resolve patent infringement suit brought by Analog Devices involving microchip fabrication , (2009)
• Network Caching Technology pursues patent infringement charges involving cache structures for computers
• Nucletron defends against patent infringement charges involving cancer therapy device
• Sercel defends against patent infringement suit involving its seismic data acquisition equipment , (2009)
• Sharp asserts patent rights for LCD technology in ITC proceeding , (2009)
• Sharp successfully litigates against Samsung in patent infringement disputes before the ITC involving LCD technology , (2009)
• Texas Instruments resolves series of disputes with Hyundai Electronics over semiconductor patents , (2009)
• Texas Instruments settles favorably in patent infringement action involving semiconductor circuits
• Vizio responds to claims of patent infringement by LG Electronics in ITC 337 proceeding

West Practice Categories

Copyrights, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, Patent Litigation, Patents, Technology Licensing, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New York

Education

• Georgetown University
• U of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• U of Vermont

Published Works

• Drafting Electronic Software Licenses to Prevent Reverse Engineering, 2004

Address

51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-2113

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