NEIL M. BATAVIA

Phone: (864) 271-1592

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Practice Areas:

• All aspects of intellectual property law including patent and trademark prosecution and related litigation.

Experience:

• Neil practices general intellectual property law with an emphasis in biochemical and software arts.
• His practice includes drafting and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent, trademark, and copyright applications, preparing infringement and noninfringement analyses of patents, performing clearance opinions on proposed new products, as well as handling complex patent litigation matters.
• He frequently counsels clients in efficient manners for resolving domain name disputes, and he has successfully prosecuted numerous arbitration complaints filed under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
• While at Clemson, Neil did research on the implementation of Kaleidaseq DNA sequencing software at the Clemson University Genomics institute and also worked as a DNA tracking technician.

Member: South Carolina Bar Association; American Bar Association; American Chemical Society; Carolina Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Association

Education: Clemson University (B.S., Biochemistry; Minor, Computer Science); University of South Carolina (J.D.)

Admitted to Practice: South Carolina; U.S. District Court for The District of South Carolina; U.S. Court of Appeals for The Fourth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for The Federal Circuit; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Published Works: "That Which We Call a Domain by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet: The Overbroad Protection of Trademark Law as Applies to Domain Names on the Internet", South Carolina Law Review, 461-486 (2002); "When Copying Becomes Criminal - The Stiff Penalties for Copyright Infringement", South Carolina Lawyer, May 2003

Honors:  Publications and Web Page Editor, South Carolina Law Review; President, University of South Carolina Intellectual Property Law Society