Alvaro Cure Dominguez

/My focus

I focus my practice on district court patent litigation and USPTO patent invalidity proceedings. I have significant experience working with patent owners in the telecommunications, cosmetics, and fleet management industries.

Prior to attending law school, I worked as a patent information specialist for one of the world’s leading cosmetics and personal care companies, doing patent clearance and provided freedom-to-operate opinions. During law school, I helped draft petitions and various briefs to the Supreme Court as a member of the school’s Supreme Court Clinic.

/Looking ahead

The institution of IPRs in 2012 and the Supreme Court’s Alice and Mayo decisions have dramatically affected how patent infringement disputes are carried out and the type of patents asserted. As the quality of asserted patents increases, so are the stakes of the proceedings and the damages amounts faced by infringers.

/Insights

• “Federal Circuit Warns Against Patent Owner Sandbagging in IPR Claim Construction,” Colton, K. and Cure Dominguez, A., IP Litigator, vol. 29, no. 5, September/October 2023: 24-25
• “Misaligned Private-Public Interests in Administrative Patent Litigation,” PatCon: The Annual Patent Conference, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, Illiois, April 15, 2023 
• “Maximizing Social Welfare Through the Tailoring of Patent Duration and Using Algorithms to Calculate Optimal Patent Duration,” Nw. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop., vol. 19, no. 2, February 2022