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 ranging from simple license agreements to complex research and strategic marketing collaborations; strategies for exploiting intellectual property to achieve desired business goals; and intellectual property-related agreements, such as employment, consulting, joint R&D, license, marketing and distribution, supply, and collaboration. He also has experience in creating standards-based patent pools.

In addition to his transactions-based practice, Mr. O'Reilley guides clients through disputes arising from technology transfer contracts and helps clients formulate, negotiate, and prepare agreements settling disputes. 

Mr. O'Reilley represents clients as licensors and as licensees in all industries that employ technology transactions, including biotechnology, telecommunications, computer technology, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products.

Highlights

• Taught licensing for 20 years at George Mason University Law School and for 30 years as CLE for Patent Resources Group.
• Designated as a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP).

Professional Recognition

• Listed in Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine as one of 250 leading IP strategists, 2009 and 2011; and as one of 250 of the world's leading patent and technology licensing practitioners, 2010-2011, distinguished as "highly recommended" for licensing in 2011.

Professional Activities

• Licensing Executives Society International (president 2009-2010)
• Licensing Executives Society, USA & Canada (president, 2004-2005)
• The District of Columbia Bar
• Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• American Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
  

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "Dealing with U.S. Patent Pools as a Third-Party," China IP News, Feb. 2010.
• Coauthor. "Moving Towards an Integrated IP Strategy," China IP News, Nov. 2010.
• Coauthor. "Inventor Employee Agreement under U.S. Law," Electronic IP Rights, June 2009.
• Coauthor. "Drafting Patent Licenses," BNA Books, 2008.
• "Licensing in a Flat World," les Nouvelles, June 2006.