Miles A. Finn Ph.D.

• Practices in the Patent Office Trial Group. Has participated in over 15 IPRs and CBMs, representing both Petitioners and Patent Owners.
• Has extensive litigation and licensing experience in electrical engineering matters, including mobile telephony, RF connectors, and semiconductor chip design and fabrication.
• Brings 15 years of practical engineering experience and 12 years of patent litigation support to his position as an attorney in the Firm's patent litigation department.  After earning a Bachelor's degree in physics (Franklin and Marshal College, magna cum laude) and a Ph.D. degree in physics (University of Minnesota) he worked as a scientist and an engineer in the medical device and software fields. 
• Has invented a line of surgical "seeing instruments," resulting in 5 patents and two license agreements.  Was awarded three National Institutes of Health research grants, totaling $575,000.
• In 2003, passed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent bar exam, and joined Robins Kaplan LLP as a Science Advisor.

Patents

• 4,948,257 Laser Optical measuring device and method for stabilizing fringe pattern spacing
• 5,512,034 Surgical instrument including viewing optics and a ball probe
• 5,667,472 Surgical instrument and method for use with a viewing system
• 5,667,473 Surgical instrument and method for use with a viewing system
• 5,667,478 Surgical instrument with stick-on-fiber-optic viewing system and method of using
• 5,735,792 Surgical instrument including viewing optics and an atraumatic probe
• Science Advisor with Robins Kaplan LLP for five years providing patent litigation support before becoming an associate.
• 15 years of experience in medical and high-technology industries, with broad experience in many functional areas, including intellectual property, engineering, regulatory, sales and marketing.  Medical fields with experience include neurosurgery, pain management, orthopedics, vascular, and urology.

Education

• Hamline University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude (2009); Law Review Associate/Associate Editor (2007-2009)
• University of Minnesota, Ph.D., Physics Franklin and Marshall College, B.A., Physics, magna cum laude (1978)

Representative Matters

PCT International. Inc. v. Amphenol Corp., IPR 2013-00229 (filed April 2, 2013) (cancelling all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,544,094 (“Connector assembly with gripping sleeve”), a patent purportedly covering our client’s F-connectors.

Purdue Pharmaceutical Products L.P. v. Novel Laboratories, Inc: Represented Novel Laboratories, Inc., a pharmaceutical company seeking to market a generic version of Intermezzo®. Intermezzo® is a sublingual formulation of zolpidem indicated for middle-of-the-night insomnia. Following a 10-day bench trial, the judge found in favor of our client, ruling the asserted claims of all three patents invalid for obviousness. The Federal Circuit confirmed the invalidity findings in a summary affirmance.

Prior- art searcher for In re Certain Flash Memory Controllers, Drives, Memory Cards and Media Players and Products Containing Same where the ITC determined that claim 8 of U.S. Patent Number 7,137,011 was invalid for obviousness.  (As a Science Advisor at Robins Kaplan LLP)

• Named a “New York Rising Star,” Super Lawyers (2016-2024)
• Phi Beta Kappa

Speeches

• Maximize the Success of Patent Licensing and Enforcement
  The Future of IP and Technology Law Forum, Boston, Massachusetts (May 9, 2017)
• Neuroscope '95 (Moderator)
  A lecture series on Neurondoscopy, AANS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota (November 2, 1995)