Christine Dupriest

Christine Dupriest is a partner with Womble Bond Dickinson. Christy uses innovative problem solving to defend and protect her clients’ investments in technology against intellectual property holders who stand between them and their enforcement actions. She combines a deep understanding of her clients’ businesses with creative legal insight and a commitment to fighting tenaciously for her clients’ business and courtroom interests. Christy provides cost-effective representation to clients at all stages of litigation, from claim evaluation through discovery, trial, post-trial briefing, and appeals.

Christy focuses her practice on patent infringement, trademark, and trade secret litigation. Her work includes managing the day-to-day case operations and supervising the associates of a national IP litigation team. As part of these efforts, Christy has litigated in United States federal district courts across the country, as well as the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). She also represents clients who have been targeted by non-practicing entities (NPEs).

Her clients include companies in a wide range of technology areas, such as oil and gas well drilling and recovery, computer networks, carpet tufting machines, furniture, clothing and footwear, flooring products, roofing shingles, personal hygiene products, animal hygiene products, building components, digital cameras, voice recognition software, medial devices and packaging products.