Wayne Helge is a Registered Patent Attorney and represents clients in all aspects of patent and intellectual property law, including litigation, post-grant patent challenges, patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, and technology-related commercial disputes.
Wayne has extensive experience and a superb track record representing clients before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He has prosecuted hundreds of patent applications, including ex parte reexaminations, and been counsel in more than 200 inter partes review proceedings, nearly always serving as lead counsel.
Wayne has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in federal courts across the country, including in the active patent litigation venues in Texas, California, and Delaware, and appeals to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Most of these cases have been patent infringement cases, but Wayne also represents clients in technology-related litigation such as software license disputes, breach of non-disclosure agreements and trade secret misappropriation. litigation, and has prepared legal opinions and recommendations to avoid infringement liability. Wayne has negotiated and drafted many U.S. and international patent licenses over his career.
Wayne is experienced in matters involving a wide variety of technologies, including computer-based threat modeling, power distribution systems, medical devices, online gaming and virtual reality software, imaging software solutions, fiber-optic communications and modulation, semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing, video encoding, flat panel displays (LCDs, plasma display panels, OLEDs) and driving circuitry, telecommunications devices and standards, and computer memory. He also is a Registered Professional Engineer and holds a Master of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which he earned while serving as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard.
