Case Assessment & Strategy
Independent, candid evaluation before major litigation dollars are committed.
- Go/no-go and second-opinion reviews
- Merits, risk and leverage assessment
- Case-theory optimization
- Settlement and funding diligence
SethLaw-PatBak combines senior patent-litigation judgment with experienced engineers, source-code reviewers, patent analysts and expert-support professionals—working behind the scenes to strengthen your case without displacing your litigation team.
Patent cases fail when legal theories, technical evidence and damages proof are developed in separate silos. SethLaw-PatBak brings those disciplines together under experienced patent-litigation supervision.
We can serve as a focused strategic adviser, a scalable technical back office, or an integrated support team across the litigation life cycle. The retaining law firm remains in command of the representation.
Engagement scope, attorney responsibility and confidentiality arrangements are documented at the outset.
Sandeep Seth has spent more than 25 years working at the intersection of patent law, engineering and litigation strategy. His practice has focused on the issues that usually determine the value and outcome of a patent case: infringement, non-infringement, validity, claim construction, technical discovery, expert development and damages.
From 2008 through 2014, Sandeep served as Of Counsel to Susman Godfrey LLP, working with Max Tribble, Kalpana Srivastava and other members of the firm’s patent-litigation teams on major technology disputes. His principal responsibility was developing the infringement and validity theories—and the supporting technical evidence—needed to turn complex patent claims into persuasive litigation positions.
Sandeep worked directly with technical experts, helped develop and defend their opinions, defended expert depositions, and took technical Rule 30(b)(6) depositions designed to establish the admissions and evidentiary foundation required for dispositive motions, trial and settlement. His work was not limited to reviewing what others had assembled; he helped identify the theory, locate the proof and build the record.
Through SethLaw-PatBak, litigation firms can now obtain that same level of focused analysis without surrendering control of the client or the case. Sandeep can participate openly as co-counsel where appropriate, or work behind the scenes as a confidential strategic and technical resource to trial counsel and testifying experts.
Representative outcomes depend on the facts, law, evidence, opposing parties and counsel in each matter. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Select a defined assignment or assemble a coordinated team for the life of the matter.
Independent, candid evaluation before major litigation dollars are committed.
Claim-by-claim analysis grounded in products, documents, testing and code.
Focused invalidity work that separates meaningful references from noise.
Targeted review by professionals who understand both the technology and the claims.
Translate complex technology into a coherent, persuasive legal story.
Connect liability theories to a defensible economic model.
Give testifying experts a disciplined analytical and evidentiary foundation.
Technical support for petitioners and patent owners.
Identify the issues that matter before they are waived, excluded or lost.
Our patent analytics team supports corporations, investors, innovators and counsel with practical, decision-oriented work products—not undigested search results.
Our role is tailored to the needs and professional responsibilities of the retaining team.
Provide the parties, adverse parties, patents and principal entities before sharing substantive confidential information.
We identify the decision to be made, the record to be reviewed, timing, staffing and the precise deliverable.
Legal, technical and economic workstreams are coordinated rather than developed in isolation.
Receive a written assessment, claim chart, search report, expert-support package, strategy session or other agreed deliverable.
Use SethLaw-PatBak for a discrete strategic review, a technical workstream, or coordinated support throughout the case.