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Cecil E. Key
1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20004
+1 202.383.7406
+1 202.383.6610 (Fax)
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Partner
Cecil Key is a Partner in Howrey's Intellectual Property practice, and focuses his practice on patent, trademark, false advertising and copyright litigation. Mr. Key's litigation practice includes representation of plaintiffs and defendants before numerous federal district courts, and various federal appellate courts, including the Courts of Appeal for the First, Fourth and Federal Circuits, and the US Supreme Court.
Mr. Key has represented clients in matters involving semiconductor, broadband and networking, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device and wind turbine technologies, as well as industrial designs. Mr. Key has also been recognized as a leading IP litigator by The Legal 500 US for his expertise and experience in the area of trademark law.
His client counseling experience includes a full range of intellectual property-related issues, including transaction-related evaluation of intellectual property portfolios, undisclosed principal purchase of intellectual property assets, clearance of marks, domain name dispute resolution, evaluation of website content and negotiating and crafting of intellectual property agreements and licenses.
"Howrey is consistently recognized as a “go to” firm for intellectual property and other complex litigation, both in the U.S. and internationally, For clients, Howrey is truly unique in its ability to bring to bear on its client’s matters an unparalleled expertise and experience in representing some of the largest companies in the world in high-stakes litigation."
Representative Highlights
- U.S. Philips Corporation v. LG Electronics Inc., et al; U.S. Philips Corporation v. Pantech Wireless Inc. Represents plaintiff in parallel patent infringement cases involving JPEG encoding technology in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Southern District of New York.
- Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc. et al. Represented defendant Gateway in patent infringement litigation involving assertion of multiple patents concerning various technologies, including video compression, audio compression and computer touch screen interface technologies.
- MicroUnity Systems Engineering v. Dell, Inc. and Intel Corp. Represented defendants in patent infringement litigation involving assertion of multiple patents concerning microprocessor technology in the Eastern District of Texas.
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Admissions
- District of Columbia, 1998
- Virginia, 1997
Courts & Adjudicative Bodies
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center (JD, 1996), cum laude. Law and Policy in International Business Law Journal, Associate Editor
- Southern Methodist University (MM, 1985)
- University of Texas - Arlington (BM, 1983), cum laude
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