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Meet Matt Phillips
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by my mid-20s i had a doctorate degree
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in electrical engineering and had worked
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for a few years as an engineer but i
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decided i didn’t want a career as an
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engineer so i moved to dc i started
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working as a patent examiner at the pto
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and i enrolled in law school at
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georgetown after a little while i left
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the patent office and started working as
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a patent agent at a big firm
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and i did what i now call
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high volume commodity style patent prep
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and pros which is sort of where i i
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learned you know the basics of the trade
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and then i was fortunate enough to get a
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clerkship at the federal circuit
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clerking for judge allen laurie i
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learned a great deal about patent law
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and litigation and appeals specifically
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and then i moved to oregon joined a
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general practice law firm in their
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patent department did some prosecution
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work did some litigation work became
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partner after about five or six years
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and then i left and started my own firm
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which is a predecessor of lawrence and
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phillips
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and over the years my practice
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gravitated first towards
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re-examinations because that was where
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the action was at the intersection of
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litigation prosecution and then with the
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passage of the aia it naturally has
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transitioned into inner parties reviews
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and aia trials and that’s about 80
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percent of my practice these days
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Washington, D.C. intellectual property lawyer Matt Phillips talks about his professional experience.
