Gregory B. Coy

Greg is an intellectual property and transactional attorney who represents clients in all aspects of patent and trademark law, including seeking and securing protection for clients’ valuable technical innovations and trademark assets, providing opinions relating to the availability of protection and freedom to operate in both patent and trademark arenas, negotiating all types of deals and transactions that involve IP, including licensing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and financing deals, and enforcing IP rights against third parties.

Greg is a registered patent attorney with more than 25 years of experience providing IP services to individuals, universities, research institutions, and companies of all sizes, ranging from start-up companies and small local concerns to large, established international firms. As the IP subject matter expert on numerous M&A deal teams, Greg leverages his deep IP expertise to provide sophisticated practical advice to clients, conduct intellectual property due diligence investigations, and resolve thorny IP issues to get deals done. His in-depth experience with IP issues and his unique perspective on corporate transactions bring significant value to both buy-side and sell-side clients in M&A transactions and to clients evaluating target companies or technologies for potential acquisition.

• Intellectual property subject matter advisor on numerous deal teams for buy-side and sale-side clients in M&A transactions and the formation of joint ventures and other types of strategic alliances.
• Handling patent matters for multinational Fortune 200 companies in multiple fields, including the medical device field and the agriculture field.
• Drafting and negotiating numerous domestic and international technology transactions involving intellectual property, including intellectual property license agreements, collaboration agreements, research and development agreements, and technology transfer agreements.
• Defending a patent owner’s patent claims in the context of an Inter Partes reexamination proceeding initiated by a third party requestor.
• Member of multiple legal teams responsible for enforcing and/or defending clients’ patent and trademark rights in federal court.
• Responsible for handling trademark portfolios of all sizes, including a portfolio of more than 500 issued and pending U.S. and foreign trademark properties.
• Managing a docket of cases that includes a multitude of U.S. and foreign patent properties and U.S. and foreign trademark properties.