D. Patrick O'Reilley
Partner
Patrick O’Reilley focuses his practice almost exclusively on transactions involving intellectual property and technology transfer. He counsels large and small clients on many types of transactions involving intellectual property, ranging from simple license agreements to complex research and marketing collaborations. He assists clients in all phases of such transactions, including formulating strategies for exploiting intellectual property to achieve desired business goals and negotiating and drafting intellectual property-related agreements, such as employment, consulting, joint R&D, license, marketing and distribution, supply, and collaboration agreement. He guides clients through disputes arising from technology transfer contracts and helps clients formulate, negotiate, and prepare agreements settling disputes. He represents clients as licensors and as licensees in all industries that employ technology transactions.
In addition to his transactional work, Mr. O’Reilley assists clients in obtaining and enforcing their intellectual property assets. He has filed and obtained hundreds of domestic and foreign patents and has played significant roles in numerous patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation litigations in federal and state courts and in the U.S. International Trade Commission. Mr. O’Reilley’s litigation experience includes several trials and post-trial appeals, representing both owners and alleged infringers in many diverse technical fields, and many more litigations where he assisted in settlement.
Highlights
- Provides counseling and agreement preparation to biotechnology-based company for strategic collaborations, dispute resolutions and licensing.
- Provides IP transaction counseling and drafting advice to a major standards-based telecommunications company.
- Taught licensing for 20 years at George Mason University Law School and for 30 years as CLE for Patent Resources Group.
- Certified Licensing Professional (CLP).
Professional Recognition
- Listed in Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine as one of 250 leading IP strategists (2009).
Professional Activities
- The District of Columbia Bar
- Bar Association of the District of Columbia
- American Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Licensing Executives Society International (President 2009-2010)
- Licensing Executives Society, USA & Canada (President, 2004-2005)
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