Gregory J Kirsch

Practice Areas

Greg Kirsch is Head of SGR's IP Practice and serves as patent counsel to clients ranging from multinational corporations to start-ups and universities. His practice encompasses the range of patent law, including patent procurement, strategic patent portfolio development, patent opinions, post grant proceedings, licensing, and patent litigation. He has prepared and obtained patents for inventions spanning the full range of technologies, including software; business methods; electronics; computer, communications and medical technology; analog and digital circuitry; mechanics; and electromechanics. Greg has experience overseeing and pursuing patent protection in patent offices throughout the world, utilizing patent treaties, in coordination with foreign patent counsel.

Greg is admitted to practice in Washington, D.C., Georgia, Virginia and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Career

Adjunct Professor of Patent and IP Law (Emory University School of Law; Washington University School of Law-St. Louis).

The Best Lawyers in America - Patent Law.

Georgia Super Lawyers.

Georgia Trend - Legal Elite.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Georgia, IP Section.

American Bar Association, IP Section.

American-Israel Chamber of Commerce-Southeast.

Emory University Board of Visitors (2021-2022).

Publications

Frequent speaker at national and international conferences on IP topics, contributed patent law chapters in two books and co-edited a book on Bioinformatics.

Education