Holmes Hawkins

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Holmes Hawkins has over 25 years of experience as a trial lawyer representing clients in intellectual property and technology-related lawsuits. Holmes represents defense contractors, computer hardware and software providers, medical device manufacturers and other healthcare companies, energy providers, financial service companies and universities in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and licensing disputes in federal and state courts throughout the U.S. and before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Holmes has a background in electrical engineering and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he represents clients in adversarial inter partes reviews, post-grant reviews and patent reexamination proceedings as an alternative to, or in parallel with, district court litigation.

Mr. Hawkins regularly serves as a Visiting Professor at Georgia Tech, where he teaches public policy courses relating to intellectual property issues to undergraduate and graduate students. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.