JEFFREY M. KARMILOVICH

Phone: (864) 271-1592

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Expertise:

• Managing client intellectual property portfolios and related prosecution and counseling.
• Litigating patent, trademark, copyright, trade dress, and unfair competition issues.
• Negotiating and drafting intellectual property licenses and other agreements.
• Providing right-to-practice, validity, and infringement opinions.

Experience:

• Jeff has familiarity with technologies such as automotive components; fiber optics, and related tools and connectors; complex machinery; telephony and communications systems; shape memory alloys and related micro-actuators and devices; and product handling, packaging and shipping devices.
• His litigation experience spans from pre-litigation investigation, through filing, written and deposition discovery, motion practice, trial, and appeal.
• Before joining the firm, he worked as an associate for five years with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner in Washington, D.C.

Member: American Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Carolina Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Association; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Society of Automotive Engineers; Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Education: Clemson University (B.S., Mechanical Engineering, cum laude); George Washington University (J.D.)

Admitted to Practice: South Carolina; District of Columbia; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; U.S. District Courts of South Carolina and the District of Columbia; U.S. Court of Federal Claims; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal, 1st, 4th, and 5th Circuits

Honors: Law Journal