Greg Polins advises clients on intellectual property disputes, with a focus on patent litigation and trade secret matters.
Greg draws on extensive trial and appellate experience to represent companies in high-stakes intellectual property disputes involving:
- Patent infringement
- Trade secret misappropriation
- Trademark infringement
- False advertising
- Patent licensing
A key member of trial teams, Greg conducts direct and cross-examinations of fact and expert witnesses at trial, and argues motions at all stages of discovery, trial, and at claim construction hearings. Greg draws on significant experience before Federal Circuit courts, including successfully arguing four appeals resulting in Rule 36 affirmances of USPTO decisions invalidating over 100 asserted claims.
Greg regularly represents clients in multi-forum patent and trade secret disputes spanning district court proceedings, ITC investigations, and USPTO post-grant proceedings. He has extensive familiarity with semiconductor, memory, and medical device technologies, as well as security, cryptography, network communications, and software. Greg also works with automotive technologies in product liability cases for major commercial manufacturers.
Complementing his commercial work, Greg maintains an active pro bono practice, working with the Michigan Innocence Clinic to represent defendants in criminal appeals and re-trials, as well as helping students with disabilities obtain appropriate education through enforcing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
He has served as an adjunct professor of legal writing at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Before joining Latham, Greg worked at another global law firm. Prior to law school, he created software for the equities trading desk at Lehman Brothers and developed web software at ESPN.