Josh Curry is a member of Sutherland's Intellectual Property Practice Group. Josh focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation involving patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, unfair competition, antitrust and other technology-related disputes. He has handled trial and appellate litigation matters involving pharmaceuticals, electronics, consumer products, computer software and hardware, e-commerce and other complex technologies. He also has experience with patent prosecution and counseling in a wide variety of technologies, including electronics, software and e-commerce. Before joining the firm, Josh served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Magistrate Judge Elizabeth M. Timothy of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. He also served as an intern for the State Attorney's Office for the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida and as an extern for the Honorable Justice Harry Lee Anstead of the Supreme Court of Florida. Josh is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Representative Experience Josh's recent representative experience includes: · Representing generic pharmaceutical companies in patent litigation matters concerning various drugs. · Representing a foreign electrical device manufacturer accused of patent infringement in Section 337 investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission. · Representing various patentees and accused infringers in different technology areas in appeals before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. · Representing an electric device manufacturer in patent reexamination proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. · Representing an outdoor company in enforcement actions involving copyrights and trademarks. · Enforcing and defending copyright claims in various actions related to computer software and hardware, business forms, technical and non-technical publications, and e-commerce applications. · Counseling equipment repair and servicing company on various aspects of copyright, trademark, and trade secret law in connection with a variety of computer-related technologies. · Ferring B.V. v. Meijer, Inc. (petition filed U.S. 2010), authored an amicus curiae brief with the Intellectual Property Owners Association seeking U.S. Supreme Court review of an issue concerning the Federal Circuit's appellate jurisdiction in patent-related antitrust cases. Professional and Community Involvement · Member, Intellectual Property Law and Litigation Sections, American Bar Association · Member, Intellectual Property Law and Technology Sections and Young Lawyers Division, State Bar of Georgia · Member, Young Lawyers Division, The Florida Bar · Vice Chairman, FSU World Affairs Program Board of Directors Recent Publications · Co-author, "Opinion Letters, Representation Issues, and the Impact of the Seagate and Knorr-Bremse Decisions," Patent Litigation 2010 Course Handbook #24179 (2010) · Contributor, "Best Practices for Using Experts When Trial Time is Tight," Partnering Perspectives (Summer 2010) · Contributor, "Claim Construction: Does the Federal Circuit Have the Last Word?", ITC Trial Lawyers Association's 337 Reporter, Volume XXVI (Summer 2009) · Co-author, "Opinion Letters, Representative Issues and the Impact of the Knorr-Bremse and Seagate Decisions," PLI Patent Litigation (2008) · Co-author, "Practical Application of Post-KSR Obviousness Standards in Patent Litigation and Prosecution," SpringPosium Intellectual Property CLE Conference (May 2008) · Co-author, "Prowling Patent Trolls," Public Power (September 2006) Industries Consumer Products News Sutherland Successfully Represents General Protecht Group, Inc. in ITC Appeal
September 1, 2010 Legal Alerts Legal Alert: XXX Domains: Prevention is Better than the Cure
September 6, 2011 Legal Alert: ICANN Formally Adopts New Generic Top-Level Domain Name Program, Postpones Application Period
June 20, 2011 Legal Alert: New Generic Top-Level Domain Name Application Procedures Are in the Home Stretch
June 14, 2011 Legal Alert: Induced Patent Infringement Requires Proof of Knowledge that the Induced Acts Infringe
June 1, 2011 Legal Alert: Patents on Computerized Settlement of Foreign Exchange Transactions Invalid Under Bilski
March 31, 2011 Legal Alert: Any Person Can Sue for False Patent Marking
September 10, 2010 Legal Alert: Copyright Ruling Allows Bypass of DVD, Smartphone Protection Mechanisms
July 27, 2010 Legal Alert: Second Circuit: Copyright Statutory Damages Not Available For Each Song In A Music Album
May 10, 2010 Legal Alert: Federal Circuit: Medical Treatment and Diagnostic Method Claims Are Patentable
September 30, 2009 Legal Alert: Ferguson: Machine-or-Transformation Test Is the Only Patent Eligibility Test for Process Claims
March 18, 2009 Legal Alert: Patent Reexamination Is Permitted Even If a District Court Has Already Ruled on the Invalidity Question Presented
September 29, 2008 Legal Alert: Patent Rights Exhausted by Authorized Sales of Products Substantially Embodying the Patent's Claims
June 30, 2008 Legal Alert: "Remote Interface" Limitation in Patented Financial Account Application System Not Satisfied by a User's Home PC
May 27, 2008 Legal Alert: Emergis Update - Federal Circuit Affirms Patent Non-Infringement Decisions
February 13, 2008 Publications Opinion Letters, Representation Issues, and the Impact of the Seagate and Knorr-Bremse Decisions
2010 Reprinted with permission Patent Litigation 2010 Course Handbook #24179, published by the Practising Law Institute Best Practices for Using Experts When Trial Time is Tight
Summer 2010 Partnering Perspectives Claim Construction: Does the Federal Circuit Have the Last Word?
Summer 2009 Reprinted with permission ITC Trial Lawyers Association's 337 Reporter Opinion Letters, Representative Issues and the Impact of the Knorr-Bremse and Seagate Decisions
2008 PLI Patent Litigation Practical Application of Post-KSR Obviousness Standards in Patent Litigation and Prosecution
May 2008 SpringPosium Intellectual Property CLE Conference Prowling Patent Trolls
September 2006 Public Power |