Eley O. Thompson is a partner and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP where he focuses on litigation, client counseling and prosecution of patents, trade secrets, and trademarks. As a member of the trial bar, he has more than 23 years of experience litigating patent, trade secret, and trademark matters for both property owners and respondents and has led litigation teams handling complex cases involving patents and trade secrets that resulted in nine-figure recoveries. His experience spans diverse technologies such as high-tech mobile, software and internet systems, RFID, polymers for various applications, video game systems, manufacturing technology for building materials, filter technologies, light bars for emergency vehicles, polymeric films for labels, gene sequencing devices, and machine vision, among others.
