With over 20 years of experience, Geoffrey Gavin advises clients on important IP matters, including patent litigation, Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) litigation, and strategic IP counseling. He has experience with numerous technologies across a wide variety of industries, including wireless telecommunications, data encryption and computer security, printers and copiers, semiconductors, LED lighting, automotive products, medical devices, video and image processing, packaging, and athletic footwear and equipment.
Geoffrey has represented plaintiffs and defendants in significant patent litigation matters throughout the United States in district courts and at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC). He has argued and presented at numerous claim construction, dispositive motion, and other hearings. Recent engagements for clients include competitor patent litigation related to tobacco heating and vaping products and semiconductors.
Geoffrey also represents both patent owners and challengers in post-grant proceedings before the PTAB. In one engagement, he led a PTAB team that defended four patents on LED downlights against inter partes review (IPR) petitions filed by a competitor. In another engagement, he led a team that used IPR proceedings to successfully invalidate claims in three patents asserted by Intellectual Ventures against numerous aspects of the client's online banking operations.
Geoffrey is a Master in the Atlanta Intellectual Property Inn of Court and a member of the Post-Grant Patent Office Practice Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Association.
Experience
Speaking Engagements
- March 3, 2022
Introduction to IP Investigations Before the International Trade Commission: What In-House Lawyers Should Know, Jones Day CLE Academy - February 22, 2016
The Shifting Landscape of Patent Litigation, Jones Day CLE Academy - October 8, 2015
Practical Tips and Guidance for Post Grant Proceedings at the USPTO, panelist, IP Section of the State Bar of Georgia - February 26, 2014
Review of the First 18 Months of USPTO Post-Grant Proceedings Under the AIA: Strategies, Trends, & Observations, Jones Day CLE Academy - November 10, 2012
Patent Indirect Infringement, panelist, ICLE in Georgia's Annual North American Entertainment, Sports, and Intellectual Property Law Conference - November 13, 2009
Section 1404(a) Motions to Transfer: Strategic Considerations After TS Tech and Other Recent Decisions, panelist, ICLE in Georgia's Annual North American Entertainment, Sports, and Intellectual Property Law Conference
- University of Alabama (J.D. summa cum laude 1999; Order of the Coif; Editor, Law Review; Dean M. Leigh Harrison Award); Duke University (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering 1996)
- Georgia; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia and Eastern District of Texas; and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for intellectual property litigation (2017-2023)
Recognized as an Acritas "Star Lawyer" on multiple occasions
Recognized in Georgia Super Lawyers numerous times for intellectual property litigation