DiMuroGinsberg Forms New DG Key IP Group, Welcomes Attorneys Cecil E. Key, Jay P. Kesan and Teresa M. Summers
ALEXANDRIA, VA. – DiMuroGinsberg, PC is pleased to announce the formation of its new intellectual property practice group, the DG Key IP Group, with the addition of attorneys Cecil E. Key, Jay P. Kesan and Teresa M. Summers to the firm.
“We’ve formed this group to enhance the services we offer to clients in protecting and leveraging their IP assets, which is key to success in today’s business environment,” said Bernard J. DiMuro, DiMuroGinsberg’s managing partner. “We also welcome Cecil, Jay and Teresa who bring experience and technical knowledge to enhance and grow the firm’s existing IP practice.”
The DG Key IP Group combines essential elements of the firm’s litigation and intellectual property practices to help clients minimize their risks associated with litigation while also providing transactional representation. The DG Key IP Group delivers focused services in the areas of IP transactions, patents, trade secrets, trademarks and copyrights.
Attorneys in the DiMuroGinsberg IP Group have been recognized as leaders in intellectual property law, having represented clients as litigation and appellate counsel in federal district courts and before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and various U.S. Courts of Appeal. In addition, the firm’s attorneys have served on the boards of entrepreneurial startups, working as scientists and engineers and advised some of the world’s most successful technology companies.
The firm’s IP attorneys also have testified before Congress and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) about developing IP issues; lectured at top universities; and been widely published in national newspapers, legal periodicals and peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Key focuses his practice on IP litigation, including patents, trademarks and copyrights, in which he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants before numerous federal district and appellate courts, including the Courts of Appeal for the First, Fourth and Federal Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the USPTO. He also concentrates on the acquisition and deployment of funding for development of his clients’ intellectual property assets. Key has represented clients in matters involving a diverse range of technologies, including software, semiconductors, broadband and networking, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and wind turbines. He has been involved in many seminal IP cases, including one before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the scope of protection for product trade dress, and has served as lead counsel for clients that are both asserting and defending against IP claims.
Key earned his law degree (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center. He also holds an M.M. from Southern Methodist University and a B.M. (cum laude) from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Kesan is a registered patent attorney who focuses his practice on helping clients protect, assert, and monetize their IP assets. Kesan has worked with clients across a wide variety of industries, and has represented clients before federal district courts and agencies, including the USPTO. He is also called upon to serve as a special advisor to both private and public sector entities regarding matters of IP law, and has served as an expert in IP disputes on numerous occasions. He is a professor and Workman Research Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Kesan also previously held research or scientist positions with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. In addition, he has served as a technical or legal consultant with various patent law publications and as a technical expert in microelectronics, microwave/millimeter wave circuits and devices, optoelectronics, communications and software. Kesan also has served on the boards of directors or advisors for numerous technology start-ups.
Kesan earned his law degree (summa cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center. He also holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Summers counsels and represents clients in patent, commercial and Hatch-Waxman matters and litigation and in appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Her practice spans many industries, including biomedical sciences, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and computer hardware and software. Summers has extensive experience in ITC Section 337 litigation and Federal Circuit appeals, having litigated nearly a dozen actions at the ITC that resulted in exclusion orders or successful settlement. Summers is active in Federal Circuit activities, including assisting the judges in recent Joint Judicial Conferences in Japan, China and Korea on U.S. IP rights. She is the chairperson of the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s Patent Reform Committee and created the Tokyo IP American Inn of Court, the first Inn of Court based in Japan and the first American Inn of Court based outside of the United States
Summers earned her law degree (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center and also holds a B.S. from the University of California, San Diego.
About DiMuroGinsberg, PC
DiMuroGinsberg is a litigation and business law firm operating in Alexandria, Va., since 1990. The firm practices in the areas of corporate and commercial law, business torts, business disputes, RICO, criminal law, employment law, professional liability and ethics, intellectual property and patent cases . The firm also has a strong complementary corporate law and business law practice. For more information, visit https://dimuronew.wpengine.com.
