Pierre R. Yanney

Pierre is a Partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department and Chair of the Patent Prosecution Group and has over 25 years of experience in patent law with a primary focus on patent litigation and prosecution. Pierre has a sophisticated technological background with a focus on telecommunications, RFID systems, medical electronics and devices, electronic control systems and semiconductor devices.

He has represented clients with complex IP challenges and argued numerous cases at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, first chaired several patent jury trials, worked on over 60 patent litigation cases, and has argued cases at the Patent Trial & Appeal Board.

Pierre received his J.D, with honors from Rutgers University School of Law, where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif. He also received S.M. and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Following MIT, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

He is fluent in Arabic and speaks conversational German.