When a competitor hit a client with a patent infringement suit involving many U.S. patents of
a large extended international patent family, and before ordering a costly patent invalidation
search, Steve Walmsley scoured the prosecution histories of all family members and discovered
killer prior art objectively withheld by the client’s competitor in the U.S. patents.¬† When the
client communicated the bad news to their competitor; the lawsuit was quickly dropped.