Lori Gordon serves as a director in both the Electronics and Litigation practice groups.  Her focus is on inter partes matters including District Court litigation and contested case proceedings at the USPTO.  She has been involved in over 40 inter partes and ex parte reexaminations, representing both Patent Owners and Requesters. Additionally, she has worked on intellectual property matters in a variety of technical fields including radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, wireless communications technologies, cryptography, Internet applications, telecommunications systems and software. 

Prior to working at Sterne Kessler, she worked nine years as an engineer for Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), the research and development organization for the regional telephone companies.  While at Bellcore, Ms. Gordon worked on the development of industry requirements and applications for various technologies including wireless, Voice over IP, local number portability, and network signaling.  She also worked on the development of network security measures for domestic and international wireline and wireless carriers.

Ms. Gordon's recent litigation experience includes serving as the lead associate for the development of the technical defenses for Sybase, in Juxtacomm Tech., Inc. v. Ascential Software Corp. et al currently pending in the Eastern District of Texas.  She also was instrumental in crafting the team's targeted approach to electronic discovery for that case.  Additionally, Ms. Gordon served as lead associate for the district court litigation and federal circuit appeal in decisioning.com v. TD Ameritrade, et al. (D.S.C. 2007).  As part of that effort she was intimately involved in the preparation of the claim construction brief, summary judgment briefs, and appeal brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as well as all aspects of discovery for the defendant.  In Stream Theory v. Exent Technologies (C.D.C.A. 2007), Ms. Gordon's knowledge was key in the development of the invalidity position for the defendant. 

Ms. Gordon has extensive experience in handling concurrent litigation and reexaminations.  She has developed and filed ex parte and inter partes reexaminations for patents at various stages of litigations.  Ms. Gordon also serves on The Reexamination Center Editorial Board. 

Additionally, Ms. Gordon is an editor of Patent Office Litigation, a two-volume set focused on the new contested proceedings under the America Invents Act published in 2012 by Thomson Reuters Westlaw. This book examines how the proceedings interact with other aspects of patent procurement and enforcement, and delivers practical analysis and advice.