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Practice Areas: Intellectual Property Law; Patent Litigation and Licensing

Additional Information: The District of Columbia Bar (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Computer Law; Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law); Virginia State Bar (Member, Section on Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law); American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law); American Intellectual Property Law Association; Federal Circuit Bar Association; ITC Trial Lawyers Association.

Admitted to bar, 1969, Pennsylvania and District of Columbia; 1970, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 1971, U.S. Claims Court; 1971-1982, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; 1974, U.S. Supreme Court; 1975, Virginia; 1978, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second and Fifth Circuits; 1979, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1990, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1991, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, 1996, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin; 2002, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: University of Maryland (B.S.E.E., 1964); Georgetown University (J.D., 1968). Eta Kappa Nu; Tau Beta Pi; Phi Delta Phi. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award, 1967. Examiner, U.S. Patent Office, 1964-1968. Co-Author: "Basic Patent Infringement Litigation," Patent Resources Institute, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1985. Member, Intellectual Property Advisory Committee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 1998—.

ARTHUR I. NEUSTADT, a member of the firm's Board of Directors, heads the firm's Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Neustadt has been actively involved in intellectual property litigation in courts throughout the United States for over thirty-five years. He has successfully tried jury and bench cases in all areas of technology before the federal district courts and argued appeals before the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit and the regional circuit courts of appeal. He has lectured widely, both domestically and internationally, on intellectual property litigation. His recent cases include Festo v. SMC where he is lead counsel for SMC and argued the case before the Supreme Court and twice before the en banc Federal Circuit; Medtronic v. Guidant (pioneer patent for treatment of congestive heart failure held valid); CPI v. St. Jude (jury verdict of patent validity for implantable cardiac defibrillator patent reinstated); Li v. Toshiba (early semiconductor patent held inequitably procured and attorney fees of $3.5M awarded), Ajinomoto v. ADM (judgment for $26M for mutation genetics and recombinant DNA patent) and Loral Fairchild v. Toshiba (early CCD patent held invalid and not infringed).

In October 2003, Mr. Neustadt was designated by Legal Times as one of the top intellectual property attorneys in the Washington, D.C. area. In April 2004, he was designated by Chambers USA as one of the top three intellectual property attorneys in Virginia and was referred to as "an inspirational and highly creative attorney" and "a true landmark setter." In April 2005, Chambers USA noted that “he is known to get great settlements quickly due in part to the good grasp he has of the dynamics of litigation” and that “he is, according to competitors, ‘proficient at identifying issues and working with a cost-benefit approach.’ ” In April 2006 and 2008, Chambers USA again named him as one of the top intellectual property attorneys in Virginia. He was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in 2006-2008. In 2007-2008, he was named as a Super Lawyer in both Washington, D.C. and Virginia. In 2007, he was a finalist in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers.

Mr. Neustadt is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center where he received the American Jurisprudence Award and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland where he was elected to Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.