Elizabeth Ferrill is an “undisputed expert on design patents” who is “always updated and enlightening others with her deep knowledge,” “very involved in the design bar,” and “gives her clients an outstanding service” as noted in Intellectual Asset Management Patent 1000. She focuses her practice on all aspects of design patents, including prosecution, counseling, post-grant, and litigation.
Elizabeth counsels clients who hold design patents as well as those accused of infringement. She has experience with design patents related to consumer and industrial products, medical devices, transportation and construction vehicles, and graphical user interfaces and icons. She has prosecuted families of design patents before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), directed prosecution in foreign countries, and argued appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). She has a special interest in strategic counseling related to acquiring for worldwide protection for designs. She also litigates design patent matters at the U.S. district court level that include trade dress claims. In addition, she has appeared before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Elizabeth also has extensive experience in utility patent litigation in the areas of software- and hardware-related technologies. Elizabeth’s litigation experience includes pre-litigation analysis, managing discovery in all aspects of fact and expert discovery, orchestrating complex claim construction analysis and briefing, and summary judgment briefing. She has experience in discovery dispute resolution, expert and fact witness preparation and depositions, and settlement negotiations. Elizabeth has been recognized by Intellectual Asset Management as a leader in patent litigation and transactions in the D.C. area, and nationally for design patents.
Before beginning her legal career, Elizabeth graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and served five years on active duty as a communications officer. She was stationed at Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C., coordinating and overseeing testing of joint intelligence software systems, and at Thule Air Base, Greenland, where she served as the flight commander in charge of base communications.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Elizabeth D. Ferrill
- Spotlight on Upcoming Oral Arguments - November 2021 - (Posted On Monday, November 01, 2021)
- Design Patent Claims Limited to Recited Article of Manufacture - (Posted On Thursday, October 28, 2021)
- Federal Circuit Clarifies That There Is Not a Heightened Standard for Willful Infringement - (Posted On Friday, October 01, 2021)
- Spotlight on Upcoming Oral Arguments – October 2021 - (Posted On Thursday, September 30, 2021)
- Federal Circuit Denies Mandamus Petition, Confirming Non-Appealability of Institution Decisions Despite Parties’ Agreement to First Arbitrate Patent Validity - (Posted On Wednesday, September 22, 2021)
- The Federal Circuit Awards New Trial on Damages - (Posted On Tuesday, September 21, 2021)
- Withheld Prior Art and Inconsistent Arguments Used to Obtain FDA Approval Renders Patent Unenforceable - (Posted On Wednesday, September 08, 2021)
- A Preamble Held Limiting Based on the Patentee’s Arguments in a Prior Appeal and File History - (Posted On Friday, September 03, 2021)
- Federal Circuit Upholds Exclusion of Damages Expert Testimony - (Posted On Thursday, September 02, 2021)
- The Federal Circuit Rejects Infringement Arguments That Are Inconsistent with Prior Art Validity Arguments - (Posted On Wednesday, September 01, 2021)