K&L Gates

Firm overview:

K&L Gates has offices and patent professionals across five continents and provides an integrated solution for patent procurement and portfolio management. Its team handles an extensive volume of patent procurement work and draws on a deep bench of technical know-how to advise clients on how to protect and monetise their innovations. This includes guiding clients through licensing deals, sales and mergers and acquisitions, in which IP often has a large significance.

When post-grant challenges arise, the firm has a dedicated team ready to contest or defend patents before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as well as forums on the global stage.

Team overview:

Peer-recommended Chicago partner Aaron Morrow is known for his skill in IP procurement and portfolio management. Morrow also provides strategic IP counselling, due diligence, and opinion work, and his practice encompasses a broad range of complex industries from biochemistry to nutritional compositions.

Also in Chicago, Robert Barrett leverages decades of experience handling patent prosecution and litigation to act as strategic IP adviser to some of the world’s best-known brands, including Nestlé, Wrigley, Methode Electronics and Kyocera.

Key matters:

Prosecution:

● The firm represented a healthcare diagnostics and medical device company in nearly all of its US non-litigation patent work, including the prosecution of thousands of patents and applications.

● K&L Gates was enlisted by an artificial intelligence (AI) research startup for its patent work, including prosecution of its worldwide patent portfolio and strategic patent counselling and licensing.

Litigation:

● Honeywell International, Telit Cinterion Deutschland, FDBA Thales Dis Ais Deutschland, Sierra Wireless v 3G Licensing, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2025.[1][2]

K&L Gates’ Erik Halverson argued for all appellants in this appeal against a PTAB decision declining to hold a mobile communications systems patent invalid. The Federal Circuit reversed the board’s decision in January 2025.

● Pointwise Ventures v Syte Visual Conception 2:24-cv-00191.

In November 2024, K&L Gates obtained the voluntary dismissal of a patent infringement case brought by non-practising entity Pointwise Ventures against client Syte-Visual Conception. Austin partners Henry Pogorzelski and Stewart Mesher led the litigation team representing Syte.

Isaac Phillip Rabicoff Rabicoff Law LLC founding [3]

● Arlton v AeroVironment (21-2049).

K&L Gates represents government contractor Aerovironment in a dispute over a ‘rotary wing vehicle’ patent. A California district court granted a motion for summary judgment on the basis that the defendant is immune from patent infringement liability under 28 U.S.C. §1 498. The plaintiff appealed.

[1] https://cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/23-1354.OPINION.1-2-2025_2444743.pdf

[2]https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/articles/recent-filings-and-decisions-for-standard-essential-patents-july-and-august-2024-us-cafc-district-courts-ptab-and-european-courts.html

[3] https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/52749637/Pointwise_Ventures_LLC_v_Syte_Visual_Conception_Ltd

Clients:

Contentious: Aerovironment, Honeywell International, Syte-Visual Conception.