Duane Morris Welcomes Intellectual Property Partner Monté T. Squire in Wilmington
Monté T. Squire has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in its Wilmington office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Squire served as an Administrative Patent Judge and member at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, Virginia, from 2015 until 2021.
Prior to joining Duane Morris, Squire served for several years as an administrative patent judge at the USPTO. In this capacity, Squire heard and presided over numerous challenges to the validity of patents in inter partes review proceedings and related proceedings.
Prior to his time at the USPTO, Squire was an intellectual property litigation attorney at Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor in Wilmington, where he represented national and international corporations in federal court. He advised technology, life sciences and manufacturing companies in patent litigation, licensing and complex technologies cases.
Squire began his legal career clerking for Judge Gregory M. Sleet on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
Squire is a graduate of Widener University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2005), where he was a managing editor of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Wilmington College (M.B.A., high honors, 1999) and the University of Delaware (B. Chem. Eng., 1995). Additionally, he is the past chair of the Delaware State Bar Association Multicultural Judges and Lawyers Section and past president of the Delaware Barristers, and past member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee for the District of Delaware. Squire has served as a board member for numerous nonprofit organizations throughout Delaware.
