Evan Andrew Parke

Associate
Washington, DC

t: 202.274.1151
f: 202.237.6131

eparke@bsfllp.com

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Areas of Practice

Intellectual Property

Securities Litigation

White-Collar/Business Crimes

Education

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

University of Minnesota, M.S., Microbiology, Immunology & Medical Pathology, 2000

University of Illinois , B.S., Biochemistry, 1997

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 A. Parke is a trial attorney and represents clients in the finance, insurance and technology sectors. Mr. Parke has experience litigating patents on the following technologies:

bio-impedance systems (summary judgment of non-infringement);
abdominal aortic stents (settlement);
online education technologies (jury verdict of infringement and patent validity);
mechanical signage (summary judgment of non-infringement);
motion control systems (settlement);
computer graphics (settlement);
dynamic data exchange servers (settlement);
internet routing products (settlement); and
hard disk drive technologies (settlement).

Mr. Parke also has counseled clients on patents concerning genetically engineered proteins, contact lenses, coronary stents and skin therapeutics.

Mr. Parke has first-chaired several cases and prevailed in suits claiming false internet advertising (summary judgment of literal falsity) and unfair competition based on the unauthorized use of intellectual property by Web site owners (class certified; judgment and injunctive relief secured). He also was trial counsel in a dispute over contact lens advertising.

In the last few years, Mr. Parke has represented clients in the finance and insurance sectors on fraud, trade secret, employment, interference, contract and antitrust matters.

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

Past Vice Chair and Member of D.C. Bar Lawyers Assistance Committee
Member, American Bar Association

Selected Publications and Presentations

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

"Federal Circuit Redefines Undisputed Plain Meaning of Claim Term," IP Update (July 2007)

"U.S. Supreme Court Dismisses Labcorp's Petition at the Eleventh Hour," IP Update (June 2006)

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

"Permissive Counterclaim-Reply Does Not Provide Basis for Personal Jurisdiction," IP Update (March 2005)

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

"Court May Not Re-Draft Claims to Ensure Operability of Invention as Claimed," 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)