Evan Andrew Parke

Associate
Washington, DC

t: 202.274.1151
f: 202.237.6131

eparke@bsfllp.com

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Areas of Practice

Litigation

Antitrust

Class Actions

Intellectual Property

White-Collar /
Business Crimes

Education

Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., 2003

Admissions

District of Columbia and Illinois

United States Patent and Trademark Office

United States Courts of Appeals: Federal Circuit

United States District Courts: District of Columbia and the Southern District of Illinois

Evan Andrew Parke is a trial attorney based in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Parke has extensive patent litigation experience that spans an array of technologies, including biotechnology, medical devices, computer hardware and software, internet-related technologies, and mechanical devices. His recent patent litigation experience includes:

representing a patentee against a competitor in a case involving online educational technologies (favorable jury verdict of infringement and patent validity)
defending an accused infringer in a case concerning internet routing technologies (settlement)
representing a company in a multi-patent suit concerning hard disk technologies (settlement)
defending an accused infringer in a suit concerning body impedance technologies (summary judgment of non-infringement)
defending a company in a suit concerning abdominal aortic stent technologies (settlement).

Mr. Parke has also led a number of cutting-edge intellectual property cases relating to the internet, including one that was brought as a class action. His recent experience includes:

representing as lead counsel a company suing a competitor over false advertising found on the competitors' Web sites (favorable ruling on summary judgment)
representing as lead counsel the named plaintiffs in a class action brought against the owners and operators of a number of Web sites for unfair competition, unjust enrichment, and violations of the federal RICO Act stemming from the unauthorized use of intellectual property owned by the class (class certified; judgment entered in favor of the class on all counts listed)
representing as lead counsel an individual plaintiff in a lawsuit against the owners and operators of a number of Web sites alleging claims of false light defamation, false advertising, copyright infringement and unfair competition (settlement).

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

Vice Chair, D.C. Bar’s Lawyers Assistance Committee
Member, American Bar Association

Selected Publications

"Federal Circuit Lacks Jurisdiction over Remand Order on Patent-Related Claims Where District Court Declined Supplemental Jurisdiction," by E. A. Parke, IP Update (December 2007)

"Federal Circuit Redefines Undisputed Plain Meaning of Claim Term," by E. A. Parke, IP Update (July 2007)

"U.S. Supreme Court Dismisses Labcorp's Petition at the Eleventh Hour," E.A. Parke and P. Devinsky, IP Update (June 2006)

"Inherent Anticipation Curtailed in Method Patent Case and Retroactive Effect of Terminal Disclaimers Investigated," by E. A. Parke, IP Update (January 2006)

"Permissive Counterclaim-Reply Does Not Provide Basis for Personal Jurisdiction," by E. A. Parke, IP Update (March 2005)

"Defenses Found in 35 U.S.C. 271(g) Are Not Available in §1337(a) Actions Before the ITC," by E. A. Parke, IP Update (April 2004)

"Court May Not Re-Draft Claims to Ensure Operability of Invention as Claimed," by E. A. Parke and A. D. Mickelsen, IP Update (March 2004)

"Langerhans Cells Activate Naïve Self-Antigen-Specific CD8 T Cells In The Steady State," by D. Mayerova., E.A. Parke, I.S. Bursch, O.A. Odumade, K.A. Hogquist, Immunity (September, 2004)

"Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis Of An Alpha/Beta T Cell Receptor: Mapping The Energy Of Antigen Recognition," T.C. Manning, C.J. Schlueter, T.C. Brodnicki, E.A. Parke, J.A. Speir, K.C. Garcia, L. Teyton, I.A. Wilson, D.M. Kranz, Immunity (April, 1998)