Josh frequently represents clients in inter partes reviews (IPRs) and other proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Josh also has substantial transactional experience, conducting due diligence investigations, drafting opinion letters on validity and infringement, and negotiating settlement and license agreements.
Josh joined Venable upon its 2018 merger with the boutique intellectual property firm Fitzpatrick Cella, Harper & Scinto, where he had worked for nearly a decade.
Prior to attending law school, Josh worked at Yale University’s technology transfer office. There, he assessed the commercial viability of inventions arising from laboratories in Yale’s school of medicine and engineering departments and strategized on procuring intellectual property (IP) protection for those inventions. Josh also conducted materials science research at Yale, developing lead-free alloys with applications in the electronics industry for their use as solders (Calabro, J.D. et al., “Magnetically driven three-dimensional manipulation and inductive heating of magnetic-dispersion containing metal alloy,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (2010)).