Thomas P Canty

Member

Mr. Canty concentrates his practice on the U.S. intellectual property needs of European and multinational clients, with an emphasis on patent matters. He frequently evaluates and counsels clients with respect to potential patent infringement situations. He develops strategies for enforcing client patents or for challenging the patents of others, and implements those strategies via negotiation, federal court litigation, and/or use of available PTO procedures.

Mr. Canty also obtains patent rights for clients and advises on patent portfolio development. He has prosecuted patent applications in diverse technical areas before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office resulting in the issuance of hundreds of U.S. patents. In addition to ordinary patent office examination proceedings, he has considerable experience in patent appeals proceedings, as well as reissue and reexamination proceedings.

Mr. Canty’s patent work has involved a wide assortment of technical areas including medical devices, aerospace, optics, chemical processes, telecommunications, robotics, automation, energy production and industrial machinery. Prior to attending law school, he worked in industry for five years as an engineer for an automobile supplier.

He is a resident in Leydig’s Germany office and also speaks German.

Professional Affiliations

• German Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP)
• American Intellectual Property Association (AIPLA)
• Deutsche Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)
• Licensing Executives Society (LES)

Articles and Publications

• "Inter Partes Reexamination: A Shift in the Conventional Wisdom," VPP Rundbrief, March 2010
• "Aktuelles aus den USA," Canty, T. and E. Swanson, Mitteilungen der Deutsche Patentanwälte, January 2010
• "Die CAFC Phillips v. AHW Corp. Entscheidung - und wie ein U.S. Gericht den Fall Spannschraube Entscheiden würde," Canty, T. and E. Swanson, VPP Rundbrief, December 2005

Speaking Engagements and Presentations

• "Inter Partes Reexamination: A Shift in the Conventional Wisdom," presented at VPP 2010 Fall Conference in Muenster, Germany, October 2009
• "Multi-Jurisdictional Patent Litigation," presented at FORUM, Germany, January 2009
• "Die U.S. Reexamination-/Reissue-Verfahren," presented at FORUM Meisterklasse EPÜ in Munich, Germany, November 2007
• "Obviousness: Auswirkungen der US-Supreme Court Entscheidung im Fall KSR v. Teleflex," presented at VPP Fall Conference in Augsburg, Germany, October 2007
• Presenter for "Trends and Developments in U.S. Patent Law," presented at FORUM IP Gipfel 2007 in Heidelberg, Germany, July 2007
• Canty, T. and E.Swanson, Presenters for "Patent Enforcement and Patent Infringement in the U.S.A.," presented at Wissinfo Seminar in Freiburg, Germany, May 2006
• Canty, T. and E. Swanson, "Die CAFC Phillips v. AHW Corp. Entscheidung - und wie ein U.S. Gericht den Fall Spannschraube Entscheiden würde," VPP Rundbrief, December 2005

Bar Admissions and Registrations

• Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• New York

Languages

• German

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