Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Coke Morgan Stewart, Senior Counsel at O’Melveny.
Stewart is a seasoned intellectual property and appellate litigator with decades of experience in private practice and government service. She served as the second highest-ranking officer of the United States Patent & Trademark Office, and as Deputy Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
We talk about writing successful patent appeal briefs, pointers for improving brief writing, the patent appeal process and more.
“You want to win on the first page, as the saying goes. But you really just want to orient the judges to your case, and make them a little bit interested in what you're going to say,” Stewart tells us. “I think of the introduction, or the brief, as a movie. The introduction is a trailer to the movie that the court is about to see. Definitely don't overlook that opportunity.”
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