Dominic A. Frisina

Mr. Frisina specializes in patent and trademark law, with particular emphasis on patent and trademark preparation, prosecution, and litigation. He has litigated intellectual property cases in the federal district courts of the Southern District and Northern District of Ohio, and argued cases before the Federal Circuit, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board, and the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board. Representative technologies include latex coatings, lab-on-a-chip medical tests, nuclear medical imaging systems, endovascular surgical intervention devices, electrochemical processes, electrospun nanofibers, wound care compositions, medicated stents, chemical libraries, cosmetics, software, and business methods. Mr. Frisina served as practice team leader in a previous firm, and managed his own firm for 10 years.

• University of Louisville (J.D., 2004)
• Johns Hopkins University (M.S. Chemistry, 1997)
• Gannon University (B.S. Chemistry, magna cum laude, 1995)

Admissions

• United States Patent and Trademark Office (2003)
• Ohio (2004)
• Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2005)
• Federal District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (2017)
• Federal District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (2019)

• Milestones Autism Resources, Board Member
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• COSE (Counsel of Small Enterprises)
• Serving on the RCIA team of his church
• Knights of Columbus, Gilmore Counsel
• Catholic Lawyers Guild

Associations

• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association

• Quoted in "Don’t Be Too Alarmed by the New SCOTUS Antibody Ruling," Bill of Health, Harvard Law School (December, 2023)
• Use Open Families to Combat Design-Arounds (November 7, 2023)
• Practical Patent Portfolio Management - a 10 part video series:
  • What is Patent Portfolio Mangement (VIDEO, part 1 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
  • The Parts of a Portfolio Management Program (VIDEO, part 2 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
  • IP in Employee Onboarding (VIDEO, part 3 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
  • Invention Disclosure Programs (VIDEO, part 4 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
  • Patent Incentive Programs (VIDEO, part 5 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
  • Whether and When to File a Patent Application (VIDEO, part 6 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
  • Handling Trade Secrets in Invention Disclosures (VIDEO, part 7 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
  • Patent Searching (Patentability versus FTO) (VIDEO, part 8 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
  • Portfolio Mnagement After Filing a Patent (VIDEO, part 9 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
  • Using Metrics for Portfolio Management (VIDEO, part 10 in 10 part series, Practical Patent Portfolio Management)
• How to properly build and maintain an IP portfolio (Smart Business, November 2023)
• Your Employee Handbook May be Deficient for Capturing Patent Rights (August 24, 2023)
• Amgen is Not the End of Chemical Innovation (July 17, 2023)
• Amgen Ratifies CAFC’s Requirement to Enable a Claim’s Full Scope (June 26, 2023)
• SCOTUS to Rule on Abitron’s Foreign Application of the Lanham Act (May 15, 2023)
• If a Good is not a Good, then a Trademark is not a Trademark (April 12, 2023)
• Cosmokey Dances the Alice Two-Step (October 21, 2021); Dominic A. Frisina, Cosmokey Dances the Alice Two-Step, 27 Patent Litigator 25 (November/December 2021).
• Can Notice of Infringement be Inferred Under Sec. 287(a)? (September 20. 2021)
• Belcher Patent Unenforceable for Inequitable Conduct (September 17, 2021)
• A Fine Line Between Co-Owner and Infringer (September 16, 2021)
• Should AI be an Inventor? (September 10, 2021)
• Assignor Estoppel is Alive and Well after Minerva v. Hologic (July 2021)
• American Axle is the Supreme Court’s Chance to Give Patent Eligibility a Tune-Up (IPWatchdog, June 2021)
• IP Law In The Trenches: Avoid Common Mistakes (Presenter, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, November 2020)
• How the U.S.-China Trade Deal Affects Intellectual Property (Author, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal, May 2020)
• The Patent-Eligibility Hydra Grows Another Head (Author, Federal Bar Association Inter Alia, Winter 2020)
• The Burgeoning Patent Revolution in Blockchain Technology (Author, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal, November 2018)
• Patentability Versus Freedom-To-Operate (Author)