A Blog About Intellectual Property Litigation and the District of Delaware


Entries for date: June 2026

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[Note from Andrew: Please welcome Jen Welsh, former prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Delaware! Jen is visiting to write our first-ever guest post, below—thank you, Jen!]

I’m Jen Welsh. I was a prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in Delaware for many years, and now I’m a partner at Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, a firm that handles investigations, white collar defense, and complex litigation matters.

You’ve probably seen me in the courthouse, kicking you all out of a courtroom so that we could handle a sentencing on a break in the middle of your Markman hearing. When I saw that a District of Delaware civil case was turning …

We used this same image last time we had to crawl out from under a mountain of unresponded-to e-mails from a series of trials, but it feels accurate.
We used this same image last time we had to crawl out from under a mountain of unresponded-to e-mails from a series of trials, but it feels accurate. Andrew E. Russell, CC BY 2.0

Ok, I admit, sporadic posting mode has been a bit of a failure. Nate and I handled a lead counsel competitor patent jury trial earlier this month (we won!) and there was truly zero time for any blog posts. Since then, we've been taking it slow and digging out from under massive piles of unresponded-to e-mails and other work. We have some vacations and another trial coming up in the next couple of weeks—so full-time blog posting will return soon, but not quite yet.

Until then, …