Intellectual Property Department Receives IP Stars Recognition from Managing Intellectual Property

Frank Abramonte, James Gale, Douglas Link, Hugh Marbury, and Camille Miller were named IP Stars by Managing Intellectual Property. Abramonte, Gale, and Marbury were named Patent Stars, Miller was named a Trademark Star, and Link was named a Rising Star. Cozen O'Connor was also recommended for Intellectual Property in Colorado and Florida and for Patent Prosecution in the District of Columbia.

IP STARS is a leading resource for businesses and individuals seeking experienced legal practitioners for both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters. The guide is published by Managing Intellectual Property, which has covered IP law and practice worldwide since 1990.

Frank Abramonte, co-chair of Cozen O'Connor's Patent Prosecution Practice, focuses on patent procurement and portfolio strategizing in electrical, software, and electro-mechanical engineering, as well as medical device-related technologies. In addition, he provides services in licensing, diligence exercises, and validity and infringement studies and opinions, as well as related litigation counseling. He counsels various businesses, from established public companies to early and late stage startup businesses.

James Gale is chair of Cozen O'Connor's Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants, and Computer Abuse Practice and co-chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. He focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and counseling. He is a registered patent attorney with 43 years of experience and has handled hundreds of cases involving patents, theft of trade secrets, restrictive covenants, trademarks, unfair competition, and internet disputes. He has appeared in over 400 federal cases in more than 48 federal district and circuit courts, as well as handled hundreds of injunctions in over 35 different states around the nation.

Douglas Link focuses his practice on patent prosecution and post-AIA review proceedings. He helps clients secure IP protection for electrical and software-related patents impacting a range of technologies, from quantum computing to financial processing, automotive components, antenna systems, and optical guidance systems. He regularly manages cases involving software patents facing the "Alice" test related to subject matter eligibility and has substantial post-AIA invalidity review proceedings experience at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has aided in the preparation, analysis, drafting, strategy, filing, and prosecution of more than 55 inter partes review petitions related to high-tech systems and processes.

Hugh Marbury, chair of Cozen O'Connor's Delaware Litigation Practice, focuses his practice on the prosecution and defense of complex business disputes involving M&A transactions, escrow and earnout claims, shareholder demands, corporate control disputes, and class and derivative actions. Hugh is also an intellectual property litigator who handles patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, breach of contract, business torts, and other proprietary issues that come before federal courts. Hugh has successfully led bet-the-company IP matters concerning cutting-edge technologies, from digital encryption to electron magnifiers to monoclonal antibodies.

Camille Miller, co-chair of Cozen O'Connor's Intellectual Property Department, is an internationally respected intellectual property attorney. She has deep experience in many aspects of intellectual property, including trademark, trade dress, copyright, unfair competition, cybersecurity and data breaches, right of privacy, right of publicity, domain names, counterfeiting, licensing, and intellectual property litigation. She is frequently engaged to consult and advise in each of these areas. Her day-to-day practice focuses on trademark and trade dress, fields in which Camille is a recognized national and international leader. She is ongoing global trademark counsel to Fortune 500 companies and manages massive client trademark portfolios, oversees IP strategy and new registrations, monitors usage 24/7, and leads enforcement efforts to shut down any improper use or infringement.

About Cozen O'Connor's Intellectual Property Department

Cozen O'Connor's Intellectual Property Department stands out from its competitors in part by providing comprehensive IP service coupled with the reach and resources of a full-service law firm. While many peer firms have quietly narrowed offerings, Cozen O'Connor's IP group of over 40 lawyers advises on all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and unfair competition, from clearance and procurement to litigation. The firm maintains a soup-to-nuts model because, quite simply, that's what's best for clients.

About Cozen O'Connor

Established in 1970, Cozen O'Connor has more than 1,000 attorneys who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions. The firm counsels clients on their most sophisticated legal matters in all areas of the law, including litigation, corporate, and regulatory law. Representing a broad array of leading global corporations and middle market companies, Cozen O'Connor services its clients' needs through 35 offices across two continents.