Bert Greene

practice is focused on the enforcement and procurement of intellectual property rights, with a primary emphasis on patent litigation. Mr. Greene’s patent litigation clients have included large and small technology companies, energy and chemical companies, and retailers in cases involving a diverse array of technologies. He also has experience with handling patent validity trials (IPRs/CBMs) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He also has experience with patent prosecution, opinion work, and portfolio management, primarily in the chemical engineering, chemistry and mechanical fields.

Mr. Greene has experience with handling all phases of patent litigation, including written discovery and document production, fact and expert witness depositions, Markman briefings and hearings, dispositive motion briefing and hearings, trials, appeals and mediation/settlement. He has represented both patent holders and accused infringers in numerous federal jurisdictions across the country, including the Western District of Texas, the Eastern District of Texas, the District of Delaware, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Western District of Wisconsin, the Southern District of California, and the Central District of California. Mr. Greene also has experience with handling all phases of patent validity trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Greene's litigation clients have included large and small technology companies, energy and chemical companies, and retailers in cases involving a diverse array of technologies, including wired and wireless networking, power-over-ethernet, wireless telecommunication networks, e-commerce systems, geographic information systems, middleware, video security systems, computer graphics, computer hardware, biofuel production, chemical and petrochemical processing, and DNA analysis. In addition to patent litigation, he also has experience with handling all phases of copyright, trademark and trade secret litigation.

Mr. Greene also has experience with patent prosecution, opinion work, and portfolio management, primarily in the chemical engineering, chemistry, and mechanical fields. In addition to his patent litigation experience, he has handled numerous pro bono cases on behalf of asylum applicants in US immigration court. Mr. Greene also tried over twenty jury trials to verdict as a Deputy Prosecutor for the City of Austin as part of the attorney loan program.

Mr. Greene is a 2004 graduate, with honors, of the University of Texas School of Law, where he was managing editor of the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, and earned a B.S., with highest honors, in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He served as judicial intern for the Hon. Sam Sparks of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Resume

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2017-present
•Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
- Partner, 2013-2017
- Senior Associate, 2008-2012
- Associate, 2004-2007

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Selected Publications

• Expert Testimony Is Not Always Necessary to Show Unpatentability in IPRs, Patent Challenges Blog, March 5, 2015

•Co-author, PTAB Terminates IPR After Institution for Failure to Identify All Real Parties in Interest, Patent Challenges Blog, February 11, 2015

• PTAB Declines to Compel Deposition of Declarant . . . But Warns of Consequences for Not Producing Declarant for Cross-examination, Patent Challenges Blog, September 18, 2014

•Co-author, En Banc Federal Circuit Addresses 'Joint Infringement' Standard, Fulbright Briefing, September 5, 2012

•Co-author, Eastern District of Texas Addresses E-Discovery in Patent Cases in Local Rules Update, Fulbright Briefing, March 12, 2012

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Damages: Recent Developments Offering Opportunities and Indicating Limitations, Advanced Patent Law Institute, Austin, Texas, November 7, 2019
• A Refresher on the Defend Trade Secrets Act: What Is It, and What's Happened So Far?, Austin IPLA Meeting, June 2017
• A Refresher on the Defend Trade Secrets Act: What Is It, and What's Happened So Far?, American IPLA Spring Meeting, May 18, 2017