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Christopher B. Kelly

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Senior Associate
T: 404-881-4416
F: 404-253-8216
Chris Kelly is a senior associate in the firm's Intellectual Property – Mechanical Patents Group. Chris focuses his practice on the procurement of patents for wide-ranging technologies, including mechanical and electro-mechanical devices, composite materials, manufacturing processes and business methods. He has experience preparing appeals and reexaminations before the USPTO’s Patent Trial & Appeal Board, investigating patent portfolios, and preparing opinions relating to patent validity, infringement and enforceability. Chris frequently counsels clients on developing strategies for protecting high-value products and innovations, litigation avoidance and dispute resolution, and managing patent portfolios in the United States and abroad.

Named a 2013 Georgia Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine, Chris has been recognized as one of the top lawyers in Georgia under the age of 40. Chris also devotes time to pro bono representation of human trafficking and domestic violence victims, and was the Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network’s Volunteer Attorney of the Year. Chris received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he served as the publication editor of the Tennessee Law Review. Prior to law school, Chris earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech, where he was a research assistant in the Woodruff School's Micromachined Sensors and Transducers Laboratory.