Gregory V. Novak serves
as national intellectual property counsel to a number of publicly traded
corporations. He also manages Novak Druce’s
industry-leading patent reexamination practice.
Mr. Novak has acted as lead counsel in more than 60 intellectual
property-related cases, both as plaintiff's counsel and defendant's counsel. He
has advised in over 200 patent reexaminations. Under the guidance of Mr. Novak,
Novak Druce has led reexaminations in the US Patent and Trademark Office’s
Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) with impressive results, including the reexaminations
of patents asserted in the infamous infringement case of NTP v. Research in
Motion Limited (RIM). Novak Druce’s involvement led to an excess of 2100 claims
rejected in the asserted patents resulting in the most claims ever rejected by
the CRU to this date.
In addition to his thriving legal practice, Mr. Novak launched the Novak Druce
Centre for Professional Service Firms at the University of Oxford’s Saïd
Business School in October 2009. Mr. Novak earned an MBA from the Saïd
Business School, University of Oxford where he was affiliated with Hertford
College. He is the first graduate of Oxford’s business school to sponsor
a research center.
Practice Areas
Admissions
- Texas
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Northern District of Texas
- U.S. Western District of Texas
- U.S. District of Maine
- U.S. District of Arizona
- U.S. District of Connecticut
Education
- Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D.
- University of Oxford, Hertford College, Said Business School, M.B.A
- Rice University, B.S.
Professional Affiliations
- American International Property Law Association, Co-Chair Intellectual Property Value Generation and Extraction; Subcommittee of the Management of Intellectual Property Assets Committee
- Intellectual Property Owners Association
- International Trademark Association