John Bird, a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Sughrue Mion, PLLC will participate in a upcoming webcast entitled, "PTAB Patent Proceedings: Best Practices and Strategies." Mr. Bird possesses extensive legal experience relating to patent application preparation and prosecution, reexamination and reissue applications, inter partes review, patentability, validity, infringement opinions, and patent appeals to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. In addition, Mr. Bird’s primary focus lies in the protection and enforcement of designs and a wide range of electrical and mechanical technologies including but not limited to: telecommunication systems, data recording mediums, semiconductor fabrication, and various automobile components including control/monitoring systems.