The recently enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act contains a little-known provision to protect inventors during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Section 12004 of the CARES Act grants the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) director the temporary authority to “toll, waive, adjust, or modify, any timing deadline”
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Lucas Moench
Lucas Moench is an experienced and versatile litigator who has represented clients in all stages of litigation from pre-complaint diligence and complaint drafting through fact and expert discovery, dispositive motions practice, trial, appeal, and settlement.
Lucas has represented plaintiffs, defendants, and third parties in state and federal trial, intermediate appellate, and supreme courts and before state and federal administrative agencies. Lucas has particularly deep experience representing complainants and respondents in fast-paced Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission in both patent and trade secrets disputes. He has also litigated matters involving administrative law, products liability, insurance defense, and complex commercial disputes, among other topics.
Lucas has participated in countless depositions, examined half a dozen witnesses at trial, and argued both evidentiary and dispositive motions in court. Most notably, Lucas recently provided oral argument in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, obtaining a 3-0 victory for his clients reversing an adverse district court ruling.