Kirk T. Bradley

• Litigation, IPR, and trial counsel for the worldwide market leader for marine electronics in federal district courts and the International Trade Commission.
• Litigation and IPR counsel to a global leader for packaging and specialty materials.
• Appellate counsel for North America’s leading manufacturer for wire and cable used in the distribution and transmission of electricity.
• Litigation, IPR, and appellate counsel for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
• Litigation and trial counsel to a global innovator and manufacturer of medical devices used to treat structural heart defects and abnormal blood vessels.
• Patent litigation counsel to one of the world’s largest cellular communications companies in patent cases pending in federal district courts and the International Trade Commission.
• Patent litigation counsel for a pioneering company in the area of real-time 3D ultrasound imaging equipment.
• Counsel to nationwide and worldwide entities defending allegations of patent infringement by patent-holding companies and nonpracticing entities.
• IPR counsel for both patent owners and patent challengers before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
• IP due diligence counsel to a worldwide company in connection with a corporate acquisition involving over 300 patents.

Representative Cases

• Trial counsel for complainant Navico (Lowrance) in ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-921 against Garmin, involving marine sonar technologies. 
• Trial counsel in Medtronic, Inc. v. AGA Medical Corp., No. 3:07-cv-00567 (N.D. Cal.), involving medical devices.
• Trial counsel in Volumetrics Medical Imaging, LLC v. GE Healthcare, et al. and related cases (M.D.N.C.), involving medical ultrasound imaging equipment.
• Trial counsel in BBA Nonwovens Inc., et al. v. Superior Nonwovens, LLC, et al., No. 6:00-2764-13 (D.S.C.), involving patents and trade secrets concerning nonwovens, electrostatics, and manufacturing equipment.
• Trial counsel in Rexam Industries Corp. v. Eastman Kodak Co., et al., No. 3:95-cv-62 (W.D.N.C.), involving paint films.
• Litigation counsel for complainant Navico in ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-898 against Raymarine, involving marine sonar technologies.
• Litigation counsel in Merck & CIE et al. v. Macoven Pharmaceuticals, et al., No. 6:12-cv-0027 (E.D. Tex.), involving medical foods.
• Litigation counsel in Johnson Outdoors Inc., et al. v. Navico, Inc., No. 2:10-cv-0067 (M.D. Ala.), involving sidescan marine sonar technologies.
• Litigation counsel in Sedecal v. DRGEM Corp., et al., No. 1:10-cv-159 (W.D.N.C.), involving components for medical x-ray machines.
• Litigation and appellate counsel in Realsource, Inc. v. Best Buy Co., Inc., et al. (W.D. Tex. and Fed. Cir.), involving debit card verification systems.
• Litigation counsel in PCI Systems, Inc. v. Fiberweb, Inc., No. 08-cv-595 (N.D. Ill.), involving trade secrets concerning high tensile strength house wrap.
• Litigation counsel in APS Technology Group v. Paceco Corp., No. 06-cv-3818 (C.D. Cal.), involving cargo container tracking systems.
• Litigation counsel for Nokia in federal district court (D. Del.) and ITC Inv. Nos. 337-TA-704 and 337-TA-710 against Apple, involving wireless telecommunications patents.
• Litigation counsel in American Biophysics Corp. v. Blue Rhino (U.S. ITC and D.R.I.), involving gas-powered electromechanical fluid systems.
• Litigation counsel for Jazz Semiconductor, Inc., in federal district court (E.D.N.Y.) and ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-648 against Plasma Physics Corp., involving semiconductor integrated circuits.
• Litigation counsel in Pyrotek, Inc. v. Industrial Tip, LLC, et al., No. 02-cvs-1831 (N.C.), involving trade secrets concerning continuous sheet casting tips.
• Litigation counsel in Cytyc, Corp. v. TriPath Imaging, Inc. (D. Mass.), involving cervical cancer screening systems and cell preservative fluids.
• Litigation counsel in Kaplan Inc. v. Peoplesoft, et al., 1-cv-202 (M.D.N.C.), involving alleged unfair and deceptive trade practices and other claims concerning computer software.
• IPR counsel for petitioners in the following cases: IPR2015-00573, IPR2015-00572, IPR2015-00571, IPR2015-00570, IPR2013-00558, IPR2013-00557, IPR2013-00556, IPR2013-00555, and IPR2013-00554. 
• IPR counsel for patent owners in the following cases: IPR2013-00497, IPR2013-00496, and IPR2013-00355.

Kirk Bradley is a partner with the Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He focuses his practice on litigation and counseling in complex patent cases during discovery, trial and appeal. His experience encompasses a wide variety of technologies, including marine electronics and sonar, metering technologies, financial services, medical devices, wireless telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and software programs. 

Kirk's practice includes appellate matters before the Federal Circuit. He also handles inter partes reviews (IPR) before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He frequently counsels clients on how to manage or avoid patent issues affecting their business, providing legal opinions and conducting intellectual property due diligence in connection with corporate transactions. He is a former law clerk to the Honorable Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Kirk is a frequent author on developments in patent law. He is the managing editor of Alston & Bird’s Federal Circuit Patent Case Summaries and the Federal Circuit Annual Review from 2004 to 2012. He is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^© for both patent law and patent litigation and was named the Best Lawyers^®  2014-15 Patent Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Charlotte.

Bar Admissions

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• North Carolina

Education

• University of South Carolina (J.D., 1999)
• Clemson University (B.S., 1996)