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Kelly Mullally is an experienced intellectual property lawyer and general appellate litigator focused on providing strategic advice to achieve her clients’ goals. In her intellectual property work, Ms. Mullally counsels clients regarding all aspects of intellectual property procurement and enforcement. She has extensive experience analyzing and resolving complex patent, trademark, and trade secret issues. Her patent and trade secret litigation and prelitigation counseling has involved a broad range of technologies and industries such as chemical compositions, cosmetics, food-service products, mechanical devices, medical devices, nonwovens, oil and gas, packaging and manufacturing, paper products, pharmaceuticals, and polymer films. Ms. Mullally has represented clients in all stages of litigation, with experience from bench and jury patent trials in the U.S. District Courts, to U.S. Circuit Court appeals, through the U.S. Supreme Court certiorari petition stage. In addition to her litigation work, Ms. Mullally has provided client counseling and prepared opinions in the patent and trademark areas. She is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and represents clients in trademark prosecution and inter partes trademark and patent proceedings before the USPTO.

A significant portion of Ms. Mullally’s practice also involves general commercial appellate litigation. She has substantial experience in all phases of the federal appeals process, representing clients and working with trial counsel in cases dealing with such varied legal topics as administrative law, labor and employment law, tort law, and complex procedural issues. Skilled at readily applying her expertise in new contexts, Ms. Mullally enjoys resolving difficult legal questions in a wide range of subject matters.

Before joining Taylor English, Ms. Mullally was a law professor for 10 years. During that time, she deepened her expertise by teaching, writing, and speaking throughout the country on topics including patent licensing, international intellectual property, patent litigation, patent law and innovation, claim construction and Markman hearings, trademark law, copyright law, the Federal Circuit, Supreme Court decisions in IP cases, and the America Invents Act. Before entering academia, Ms. Mullally practiced law at the firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP.

Ms. Mullally attended the University of Georgia School of Law, where she graduated first in her class and served on the Georgia Law Review. After graduating from law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge J.L. Edmondson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and then for Judge William C. Bryson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Ms. Mullally received her BS in Chemistry, with highest honors, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she conducted research in polymer chemistry and industrial chemicals, and also worked in industry researching protein adhesion on nonwoven (polymeric) fabrics.

Memberships

Atlanta Intellectual Property Inn of Court, Founding Member, Master, Past Pupilage Group Chair

Federal Bar Association

Community Involvement

Youth Soccer Coach, 2009-present

Arbor Montessori School, Parent Involvement Committee, 2011-2015; Diversity Committee, 2010-2012

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