Robert P. Greenspoon

Background:

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. In his most recent trial in February 2011, Mr. Greenspoon helped win a patent jury trial for a first-tier automotive supplier client against its direct competitor, performing most of the direct and cross examinations for his side.

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 August/September 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. His article "Don't Assume a Can Opener: Confronting Patent Economic Theory with Licensing and Enforcement Reality" was published in June 2011 in the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review.

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 American Intellectual Property Law Association. He recently served as Chair of the Chicago Regional Committee for the Chicago Society, a group that advances the educational mission of the University of Chicago. Before that, he was Chair of the local nonprofit arts organization Anchor Graphics.