321 North Clark Street
Suite 2300
Chicago,
Illinois
60654
 312.464.3109
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Jordan
A.
Sigale
Partner
and
Co-Chair, Patent Litigation Department
Jordan Sigale practices in intellectual property, computer and patent law. Although Mr. Sigale's primary focus is in patent and trade secret litigation and alternative dispute resolution, he is also extensively involved in client counseling on issues of corporate and strategic planning involving copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets.
One hallmark of Mr. Sigale's work is finding creative, practical approaches to reaching the client's immediate and long-range business goals through application of intellectual property licensing, procurement and litigation strategies. Mr. Sigale first strives to understand his client's business history and goals through a dialog and then frequently guides his client through the strategic decision making process.
Mr. Sigale has served as lead litigation and trial counsel in district courts throughout the US involving a variety of intellectual property issues including computer intrusion, copyright infringement, false advertising, design and utility patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation and trademark infringement. Mr. Sigale has also had extensive involvement in coordinating foreign intellectual property litigation strategy in Australia, China, Europe and Hong Kong.
Mr. Sigale's litigation work has involved diverse technologies including cable television systems; chemical compositions (e.g. ceramics, ink and pharmaceuticals); consumer electronics (e.g. DVD players, small kitchen electrics, personal care devices, and toys); lab equipment (e.g. spectrophotometers); LED devices; lighting fixtures and power supplies; medical devices (e.g. laser devices, orthopedic devices, and radiological devices); packaging; software; and telephony (e.g. cellular, cordless and wired).
In the last five years, as lead trial counsel, Mr. Sigale has successfully handled four preliminary injunction motions: three involving alleged patent infringement and one involving trade secret misappropriation. Mr. Sigale also defended two of these patent infringement preliminary injunction victories on appeal before the Federal Circuit. In the same period, Mr. Sigale also won a preliminary injunction motion for his client in a patent infringement case (the case settled favorably while on expedited appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Mr. Sigale also has experience in developing strategies in view of the Hatch-Waxman Act and litigating the ensuing infringement, validity and enforceability of pharmaceutical patents on behalf of generic and branded pharmaceutical companies. Most recently, Mr. Sigale defended Sicor (a subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd.) in Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. LLC v. Sicor, Inc. and SICOR Pharmaceuticals Inc. (D. Del.) a patent jury trial directed to a patent covering leukemia and breast cancer chemotherapy agents.
Mr. Sigale also has significant litigation experience in patent-antitrust litigation reaching back to his extensive involvement on the trial and appellate teams in C.R. Bard v. M3 Systems (a case involving both patent-based Section 1 and 2 claims as well as non-patent based monopolization claims). In the last five years, Mr. Sigale has served as lead litigation counsel on four US district court cases involving trade secret-antitrust and patent-antitrust claims. In addition, Mr. Sigale successfully argued the summary judgment motions before the district court that lead to US Supreme Court's seminal decision in Independent Ink, Inc. v. Illinois Tool Works Inc. clearly abolishing any presumption of market power in a Sherman Act Section 1 "patent-tying" claim, thus, upholding the favorable summary judgment ruling for Mr. Sigale's clients in the district court.
Mr. Sigale has also been able to successfully combine his extensive litigation experience with his extensive knowledge of US and foreign patent prosecution practice. As an active member of the patent bar, Mr. Sigale has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the US in the chemical, electrical, electrochemical and mechanical arts including business methods; cable television equipment; computer circuits (including multiprocessor designs); computer peripherals (e.g. laser printers and user input devices); cosmetic preparations; electronic toys, electrical testing apparatuses, fiber optics, highend audio circuitry; kitchen appliances, medical devices, networking devices and methods, personal care devices; semiconductor design and fabrication, paperboard and plastic containers, RF equipment, signal processing software, speech recognition software, and telephony-related inventions. Mr. Sigale has also actively worked with an extensive network of foreign patent lawyers to prosecute patent, and utility model applications world-wide for his clients. This experience allows Mr. Sigale to consider multiple jurisdictions and venues (including inter parties proceedings at the US Patent Office) in mapping potential client strategies.
As a result of the breadth of Mr. Sigale's experience, he also frequently counsels clients on intellectual property acquisition and development; portfolio management; licensing; and joint ventures; and trade regulation issues.
Prior Work Experience
Prior to joining Loeb, Mr. Sigale was a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, where he practiced in the area of intellectual property litigation and counseling. Prior to joining Sonnenschein in 1998, Mr. Sigale was with The Law Offices of Dick and Harris, a intellectual property litigation and prosecution boutique in Chicago.
Publications/Speeches
Distinctions
- Recommended “Top Lawyers in Illinois” in Intellectual Property Law, Leading Lawyers Network, a division of Law Bulletin Publishing Company (2004-2008)
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University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 1992, magna cum laude
University of Illinois College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S., 1989
Illinois
United States Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Trial Bar
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
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