Attorney Profiles

Philip J. Foret
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


phone	(215) 575-7046
fax	(215) 575-7500
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Areas of Focus:

Associate, Intellectual Property Group. Mr. Foret has an extensive background with the procurement, perfection, enforcement and leveraging of domestic and international patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets in a wide variety of industries. His experience includes transactional practice in areas of due diligence, licensing of technology and transferring ownership of intellectual property. He also handles patent and trademark litigation in federal court, administrative actions in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and domain name disputes before ICANN-approved arbitration forums.

Mr. Foret's patent practice experience includes preparation and prosecution of United States provisional, utility and design applications, PCT international applications, development of global patent procurement and enforcement strategies, and preparation of patentability and validity opinions. The representative arts in which Mr. Foret has exposure include the areas of medical devices, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and other novel inventions. Mr. Foret's trademark practice experience includes trademark and trade dress availability searching as well as drafting related availability opinions, prosecution of United States and Madrid Protocol applications, and maintenance and enforcement of trademark registrations. Mr. Foret's copyright practice experience includes developing strategies for securing and perfecting protection of various copyrightable works and enforcing such rights.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS:

Provide intellectual property counseling to a stem cell and cord blood preservation company regarding patent searching, procurement of domestic and international patent and trademark rights, and leveraging of intellectual property rights through licensing and collaborative research

Provide trademark and service mark counseling regarding procuring, policing, and leveraging patent and/or trademark rights to an insurance company, transportation and logistics company, environmental testing products and service company, beverage company, and semiconductor cleaning apparatus company

Successfully settled a patent infringement action in Federal Court for a data systems company

Successfully policed and enforced trademark rights through several Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy actions to a leading U.S.-based financial institution

Represented financial firms as amicus curiae parties in In re Seagate Technology LLC and In re Bilski cases before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Collaborated with Canadian IP firm in successfully defending an opposition filed in the Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Education:: Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2001
J.D.; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1998
M.S.
Major: Biology; Franciscan University of Steubenville, 1996
B.A.
Major: Biology

Professional Activities:: Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association; Member, International Trademark Association; Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association; Law Clerk, Intellectual Property Law Division, Alcoa Inc. (2000-2001); Clinical Intern, The Office of The Honorable Ralph J. Cappy, Pennsylvania Supreme Court (Spring 2000); Adjunct Faculty, Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA (1996-1998)

Bar Admissions:: U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; U.S. Supreme Court

Presentations:: Adjunct Faculty, Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Duquesne University, 1996 - 1998

Publications:: Selcer, K.W., S. Nagaraja, P. Foret, D. Wagner, L. Williams, and B.D. Palmer, 2001. "Vitellogenin as a biomarker for estrogenic chemicals: Development of antibodies and primers with broad species applications," PCB's Recent Advances in the Environmental Toxicology and Health Effects. L. W. Robertson and L.G. Hanson (ed.). University of Kentucky Press,, Lexington, KY, pp. 285-292; K. W. Selcer, P. J. Foret and B.D. Palmer, 1997, and Brent D. Palmer. "Vitellogenin induction in turtles by immersion in estrogenic chemicals," American Zoologist, 37(5): 662.; P.J. Foret, 1998, "Development of immunoassays for Vitellogenin: A biomarker for estrogenic agents," Duquesne University.