Steve Parmelee SENIOR COUNSEL Litigation Seattle
[email protected] 206-883-2542 FOCUS AREAS EXPERIENCE Steve Parmelee is senior counsel in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's Seattle office. He Intellectual Property has over 25 years of experience in inter partes proceedings before the Patent Trial and Life Sciences Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). He has represented patent applicants in many patent interference proceedings at the PTAB. In addition, he has Litigation experience representing clients in the new post-grant trial proceedings that were enacted in Patents and Innovations the America Invents Act of 2011, including inter partes review (IPR) and covered business method (CBM) challenges to issued patents. Post-Grant Review Steve has acted as lead counsel in a number of patent interferences at the PTAB covering a wide range of technologies, including medical devices, photolithography, wireless security protocols, high-density recording media, and biotechnology. Notable cases include University of Washington v. Eli Lilly & Co., in which Steve represented the prevailing party in establishing the now-standard "two-way test" for declaring interferences, and Affymetrix v. Incyte, where he represented the prevailing party Affymetrix in a major gene array dispute. Steve has worked extensively on client patent portfolios in the areas of immunology, molecular biology, and infectious disease. He obtained patent protection for a licensee's immunotherapy product with sales of more than $1.3 billion per year, generating substantial royalties for the client. He also advises clients on freedom-to-operate issues and due diligence concerns prior to licensing, investments, or acquisitions.