Robert P. Greenspoon
rpg (at) fg-law.comBackground:
Robert Greenspoon is a founding member of Flachsbart & Greenspoon, LLC. He is a registered patent attorney who concentrates his practice in the litigation and trial of patent cases involving computer and electronic technologies. Mr. Greenspoon has led pretrial preparation and Markman hearings. Mr. Greenspoon has held primary litigation responsibility in matters grossing in excess of $75 million in aggregate recoveries since 1996. He has also successfully defended against multimillion dollar claims while representing accused infringers.
Mr. Greenspoon has argued several cases before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He argued the winning appeals in HyperPhrase v. Google (Federal Circuit, Appeal No. 2007-1125, -1176, December 26, 2007) and 1st Technology v. Bodog (Federal Circuit, Appeal No. 2008-1132). At 29 years old, he became possibly the youngest attorney to argue successfully for a patentee-appellant in a multimillion dollar patent case, in IMS Technology, Inc. v. Haas Automation, Inc., 206 F.3d 1422, 1430 (Fed. Cir. 2000). He also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Brian Barnett Duff of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He co-authored "Are Patent Trolls Really Undermining the Patent System?" in the September/October 2006 issue of IP Litigator, "Obviousness after KSR v. Teleflex: A Private Practice Perspective," in the July 2007 issue of Intellectual Asset Management Magazine, reprinted in the July/August 2007 issue of IP Litigator, and authored "Is the United States Finally Ready for a Patent Small Claims Court?" in the Winter 2009 volume of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology.
Education
Mr. Greenspoon obtained his A.B. degree in Physics and in the Philosophy of Science from the University of Chicago. He then pursued his legal education at the University of Michigan, where he received his J.D.
Community
Mr. Greenspoon is a member of the judicial evaluation committee of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, and a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He is Chair of the Chicago Regional Committee for the Chicago Society, a group that advances the educational mission of the University of Chicago.