Professional Experience
Leonard P. Diana has extensive experience in client counseling and patent prosecution, including preparation of patent applications, reexaminations, reissue proceedings and interferences, in the software, electronics, and electrical arts.
Mr. Diana has also engaged in patent litigation at the trial and appellate levels. Some of the technologies he has worked with include network management, telecommunications, software security technology, semiconductor devices and their fabrication, and computer hardware, as well as optical equipment and medical devices.
Awards and Recognition
Mr. Diana is listed in Legal 500 2008 for Patent re-examination. He was also selected by Patent Buddy as one of the Top Patent Prosecutors nationally in the Mechanical area for 2011.
Professional Activities
New York Intellectual Property Law Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; American Bar Association; American Physical Society
Representative Cases
Levien v. Levien v. Katayama et al.
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 2000
Publications
Third-Party Opposition of Patent Issuance
China Intellectual Property
August 2011
The Future of Means-Plus-Function Claiming for Computer-Implemented Processes
Bloomberg Law Reports
June 7, 2010
Federal Circuit Confirms That Written Description and Enablement are Separate Requirements
Fitzpatrick Case Update
March 22, 2010
What's Next for Written Description? - The oral argument in Ariad
Fitzpatrick Case Update
December 8, 2009
Patent Infringement: The Return of the Opinion of Counsel?
Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal
2009
Digital Jack-of-All-Trades
IP Law & Business Almanac
December 2007
Untangling the Nanothreads Between the Enablement and Written Description Requirements
Nanotechnology Law & Business
March 2007