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

Representative Cases

• Input/Output, Inc. et al. v. Sercel, Inc., Civil Action No. 5:06-cv-236 (E.D. Tex. 2006) , (2008)
• Certain Aerospace Rivets and Products, ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-447
• Certain Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Using Tungsten Metallization, Invest. No. 337-TA-648, LSI Corp. and Agere Systems Inc. v. United Microelectronics Corporation, Case No. 2:08-CV-165 (E.D. Tex.) , (2008)
• Collins v. AT&T, No. 4:04CV119 (N.D. Texas)
• Eastman Kodak Company v. Sony Corporation et al. (Case No. 04-CV-6095 T) (W.D.N.Y.) and Sony Corporation and Sony Electronics Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Company (Case No. 04-CV-6547T) (W.D.N.Y.)
• F&G Scrolling Mouse v. IBM, Civil Action No. 1:99-CV-460 (M.D. N.C.)
• Fenner Investments, Ltd. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 2:05-CV-05 LED (Est. Dist. TX, Marshall Div.)
• General Electric Company v. Nintendo Company, Ltd. and Nintendo of America, Inc., Civil Action No. 95-1248 (D. N.J.)
• Hand Held Products, Inc., v. Symbol Technologies, Inc., Civ. A. No. 04-3
• Hybrid Networks, Inc., Eduardo J. Moura, and James L. Long, v. International Business Machines Corporation, Civil Action No. 96CA009725 (Superior Court, District of Columbia)
• Lucent and AT&T v. Collins, Case No. 3:04-CV-786-B (N.D. Texas)
• Medical Instrument and Diagnostic Corporation v. Elekta Instrument AB, et al., Civil Action No. 97-CV-2271 (S.D. Cal.)
• Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor v. Analog Devices, Inc., Civil Action No. 1:03-CV-131 (E.D. Tex.)
• Motorola v. Analog Devices, Inc., Case No. 1:03-CV-131 (RC)
• Network Caching Technology, LLC v. Novell, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. CV-01-2079 (N.D. Cal.)
• Phonetel v. AT&T, Lucent Technologies, et al., Civil Action No. 4-98-CV-0019E (N.D. Texas)
• Radionics, Inc. v. Elekta Instrument AB and Elekta Instruments, Inc., Civil Action No. 93-10014Z (D. Mass.)
• Research In Motion, Ltd. v. Good Technology, Inc., Civil Action No. 2CC00274 (Orange County Superior Court)
• Sam F. Liprie v. Nucletron Corporation and Nucletron Holding BV, Civil Action No. H-95-1673 (S.D. Tex., Houston Division)
• Symbol Technologies, Inc. v. Hand Held Products, Inc., C.A. No. 03-102 (SLR) (D. Del 2003)
• Tantivy Communications, Inc. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc., Case No. 2:04-CV-79 (E.D. Texas)
• Texas Instruments Inc. v. Hyundai Electronics Industries, et al., Civil Action No. 2:98 CV 73, 74 (E.D. Tex.)
• Texas Instruments Inc. v. Linear Technology Corporation, (Case No. 2:01CV004)
• U.S. Patent No. 4,998,221, Memory Bypass for Write Through Read Operations (Circuitry for Shortening Cycle Time of Cache Memory)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,042,034, Bypass Boundary Scan Design (Self-Testable Boundary Logic for Electronic Circuits)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,058,058, Workstation Takeover Control (Network Architecture)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,058,997, TFT LCD with Optical Interference Color Filters (Liquid Crystal Display Device)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,099,421, Variable Length Pipe Operations Sequencing (Microcode for Computer Architecture)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,117,271, Low Capacitance Bipolar Junction Transistor and Fabrication Process (Semiconductor Device)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,142,167, Encoding for Simultaneous Switching Output Noise Reduction (Data Compression)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,148,538, Translation Look Ahead Based Cache Access (Cache Memory Access System)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,189,296, Optical Receiver Having a Low Capacitance Integrated Photodetector (Optical Coupling Device)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,218,551, Timing Driven Placement (Method of Designing Optimized Integrated Circuits)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,233,487, Functional Measurement of Data Head Misregistration (Hard Disk Storage System)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,287,377, Coupled Quantum Well Tunable Laser (Adjustable Frequency Laser Device)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,298,452, Method and Apparatus for Low Temperature, Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of Epitaxial Silicon Layers (Semiconductor Fabrication Process)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,304,898, High-Voltage Generating Circuit (Electronic Circuit)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,315,142, High-Performance Trench EEPROM Cell (Semiconductor Memory Device)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,329,257, SiGe Transferred Electron Device and Oscillator Using Same (Semiconductor Device and Circuit)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,528,651, Positioning Device and Method for Radiation Treatment
• U.S. Patent No. 5,893,094, A Method and Apparatus Using Run Length Encoding to Evaluate a Database (Database Processing Technique)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,907,840, Overlapping Subdocuments in a Vector Space Search Algorithm (Database Processing Technique)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,953,728, A System for Modifying a Database Using a Transaction Log (Database Processor)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,995,962, A Sort System for Merging Database Entries (Database Processing Technique)
• U.S. Patent No. 5,999,925, Information Retrieval Based on Use of Subdocuments
• U.S. Patent No. 6,029,167, A Method and Apparatus for Retrieving Text Using Document Signatures (Database Processing Technique)
• U.S. Patent No. 6,055,528, A Method and Apparatus for Cross-Linguistic Database Retrieval (Database Processing Technique)
• U.S. Patent No. 6,430,559, Method and Apparatus for Profile Score Threshold Setting and Updating
• U.S. Patent No. 6,721,734, Method and Apparatus for Information Management Using Fuzzy Typing
• U.S. Patent No. 6,728,701, Method and Apparatus for Database Retrieval Utilizing Vector Optimization

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

Published Works

• Drafting Electronic Software Licenses to Prevent Reverse Engineering, 2004

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