Sterlington PLLC

Sterlington PLLC is a full-service law firm focusing on complex corporate, litigation, executive compensation, and private wealth matters. Our Intellectual Property (IP) practice advises on highstakes disputes, protecting valuable inventions and managing bet-the-company litigation.

We represent individuals and corporations, small or large, in their most important IP matters, from providing strategic advice on protecting their valuable inventions to bet-the-company litigation and IP litigation and arbitration. We leverage our integrated deal teams and specialists and welcome alternative fee arrangements where possible.

Our IP trial lawyers have extensive experience representing innovator pharmaceutical companies in Hatch-Waxman Act patent litigation against generic manufacturers, as well as advising biologic manufacturers under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act. We also have significant experience in post-grant patent proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as well as coordinating parallel patent proceedings abroad.

The Sterlington team brings several decades of experience handling high-stakes patent disputes across federal district courts and the USPTO, with extensive experience in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings. The practice spans every aspect of patent litigation—from federal district court and PTAB trials to appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. We have represented clients in more than 140 proceedings before the PTAB and handled more than 35 patent interferences, as well as numerous reexaminations. These matters have spanned a wide range of technologies, including mechanical systems, semiconductors, medical devices, cellular communications, biotechnology, and software platforms. In addition to patent disputes, we also represent clients in trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, and false advertising matters.