As chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group, Kevin Casey has counseled clients for more than 20 years in all aspects of the intellectual property field, encompassing patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and related matters.
Mr. Casey has an active trademark practice and has supported patent procurement, including U.S. and international patent application preparation and prosecution, with respect to a wide variety of technologies. Specifically, he has written and supervised the writing of hundreds of patents involving mechanical devices of all types with an emphasis on medical products, semiconductors and materials applications.
Mr. Casey has provided IP legal opinions on patent infringement and right-to-use, patent validity, patentability, trademark right-to-use and right-to-register, trademark dilution, domain name, copyright and others. Mr. Casey also has extensive experience negotiating and completing IP licenses. As co-chair of the firm's IP Litigation Practice Group, he has acted as lead litigation counsel and participated as assistant counsel in more than 50 IP cases. He also has an active appellate practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, applying his experience as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Helen W. Nies, former Chief Judge on the Federal Circuit.
As co-chair of the firm's Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Practice Group, Mr. Casey considers ADR to be an integral part of his practice. He has participated in various ADR procedures as a party representative and as a neutral. Mr. Casey has been certified as both an arbitrator and a mediator by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Casey has authored numerous papers on IP issues, and has been an adjunct professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law since 1995. Mr. Casey is ranked as one of the leading IP attorneys in Pennsylvania by “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide.” In addition, he has been consistently named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer®by a vote of his peers. He was included in the 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. In addition, he was named the Best Lawyers' 2010 Philadelphia Area Intellectual Property "Lawyer of the Year," an honor only one lawyer in each specialty in each community receives. Selection for Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey in which more than 1.8 million individual evaluations are reviewed. In addition, he was recommended as a leader in intellectual property in Pennsylvania in the 2010, 2009 and 2008 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, where he was recognized as “a bright attorney who is right on the ball.” PERSONAL
Before embarking on his legal career, Mr. Casey worked as an engineer with General Electric for four years. An avid baseball and ice hockey fan, he continues to play both sports. Mr. Casey participated in the 2008 Mets Fantasy Camp in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
He is proud of his daughter, a musical theater graduate from New York University, and his son, who studies engineering at Lafayette College.
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| PRACTICE AREAS |
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| Intellectual Property |
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| Intellectual Property Litigation |
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| Alternative Dispute Resolution |
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| Spain & Latin America |
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| BAR ADMISSIONS |
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| District of Columbia |
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| Illinois |
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| Pennsylvania |
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| COURT ADMISSIONS |
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| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
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| U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia |
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| U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
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| U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois |
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| U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
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| U.S. Supreme Court |
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| EDUCATION |
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| J.D., magna cum laude, University of Illinois College of Law, Order of the Coif, 1986 |
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| M.S., Aerospace-Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1982 |
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| Dual B.S., Materials Engineering & Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1979 |
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| MEMBERSHIPS |
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| American Arbitration Association, Commercial Panel |
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American Bar Association
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee
- Litigation Committee |
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American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Editorial Board, AIPLA Q.J. |
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| Association of Conflict Resolution |
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Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court
- Past President
- Chair, Programs Committee |
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| CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution |
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Federal Circuit Bar Association
- Past President
- Chair, CLE Committee
- ABA Delegate |
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| IP Panel of National Arbitration Forum |
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| OceanTomo IP ADR Panel |
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Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association
- Past President
- Chair, Litigation Committee
- Member, Board of Directors |
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| Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts |
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| The Historical Societies of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and of the Federal Circuit |
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| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Advisory Council (2007-08) |
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| Panel of Neutrals, International Trademark Association |
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| American Arbitration Association, Technology/IP Advisory Committee |
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| Division Vice Chair, American Bar Association IP Litigation Section |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
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| Click here for a list of publications |
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| NEWS AND EVENTS |
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