McAndrews, Held & Malloy


	Dean A. Pelletier Shareholder Email. dpelletier@mcandrews-ip.com Tel. (312) 775-8000 Practice Areas Intellectual Property; Patent, Trade Secret, Trademark and Copyright Litigation. Education Northwestern University, B.S. Biomedical Eng., 1991 Washington University, J.D., 1995 Bar Admissions Admitted to practice in Illinois. Member of the bars of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Professional Experience Dean Pelletier joined the firm in 1998 (after first working at a general practice firm). His clients operate globally and in various industries, including medical technology and food and beverage technology, production and services. Dean works or has worked with other clients operating in such industries as railway products, electronics and lighting, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, chemical processing, electrochemical fuel cells, medical devices, heavy construction equipment, film and entertainment, publishing and professional services. Dean’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, including patent, trade secret, trademark and copyright litigation. He recently litigated and tried a major International Trade Commission (“ITC”) case involving trade secret misappropriation and has actively participated in three major patent infringement jury trials and related mediation proceedings. In the recent ITC trial, he was co-chair and directly examined and cross-examined multiple fact and expert witnesses. In the most recent patent infringement trial, he was co-chair, directly examined and cross-examined multiple fact and expert witnesses and delivered part of the closing argument. In another patent infringement trial, which resulted in an overall damages award of $80 million for the client (including $20.9 million in actual damages), Dean cross-examined the defendant’s damages expert and the defendant’s corporate representative for sales and marketing. Dean has argued, and participated in, multiple appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Overall, Dean has significant trial and litigation experience, including experience in developing and executing trial and litigation strategy, managing litigation, taking and defending fact and expert depositions, substantive motion practice, Markman (claim construction) briefing and hearings, working with retained experts, directly examining and cross-examining fact and expert witnesses at trial and appellate practice. Dean counsels clients on various intellectualy property matters, including intellectual property portfolio development and management. Dean analyzes intellectual property and related products in connection with transactional due diligence, drafts legal opinions addressing such issues as patent infringement and validity, and drafts licensing and confidentiality agreements. Dean has prosecuted patent and trademark applications, litigated and counseled clients on patent opposition proceedings (for example, before the European Patent Office) and trademark opposition proceedings and trademark cancellation proceedings (before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to joining the firm, Dean’s practice involved intellectual property litigation, including trademark and copyright litigation, and products liability, securities and commercial (for example, breach of contract) litigation. He first-chaired a bench trial involving a commercial dispute and successfully obtained a directed verdict for a client against whom claims of commercial fraud and wrongdoing had been brought. He represented commercial clients in mediation proceedings, negotiated and drafted licensing agreements, loan agreements and operating agreements, counseled clients on choice of entity, promotions and advertising, and established not-for-profit, tax-exempt corporations. Dean is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, Federal Circuit Bar Association, ITC Trial Lawyers Association, Chicago Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association. What Clients Have Said: “Thanks for your help, support, and insight last week. I was impressed by your skills prior to seeing you in court; my opinion of those skills has risen to new heights after seeing you in the courtroom. You were able to get important testimony from adverse witnesses while remaining a gentleman. I am proud that MHM is representing me.” “[I]t has been a real pleasure and an outstanding learning experience to work with yourself . . . I have appreciated your hard work, balanced perspective, and sense of humor too! I certainly hope we will have a chance to work together in a future endeavour.” “I want to compliment you on the outstanding job you did on the cross examination of [the defendant’s officer and damages expert]. Both came across as very confident and credible on direct, but, by the end of your cross examination, they were both whipped pups!” “For efforts above and beyond the call of duty. Thanks[.] ” Speaking Keynote speaker on intellectual property at multiple Infocomm International® meetings. (Infocomm International is the leading nonprofit association serving the professional audio-visual communications industry worldwide.) Awards 2006 Law Bulletin Pubishing Company's 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch. Publications Top 10 Provisions Of The America Invents Act (Law360) View File Access Denied - Under What Circumstances Should In-House Counsel Fight to See the Other Party's Confidential Materials in Patent Litigation? View File A Strategy for, and Benefits of, Securing Prompt Claim Construction Rulings View File Competitive Advantages of Intellectual Property View File FOCUS - Never Give Up . . . and You Could Score a Big ITC Win View File Back to Top