Practice Areas
John O’Quinn’s practice focuses on litigation, including intellectual property, commercial, regulatory and other complex cases at the trial and appellate levels. He has argued 100 appeals in courts throughout the country. He is one of the premiere practitioners in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where he has argued more than fifty patent appeals. A trained engineer who graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School and clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court, he has represented a broad array of clients in patent cases involving numerous technologies, such as Abbott, BASF, Cisco, GSK, Honeywell, Samsung, Schlumburger, and others. Other representative matters have included defamation, trademark, trade secret, regulatory, False Claims Act, and bankruptcy disputes for clients such as Abbott, AbbVie, Boeing, Charter Communications, Eli Lilly, Intelsat, Lucky Brands, Motorola and Sun Capital, as well as various trade associations. Clients have described him as an “appellate high flier” who “is outstanding as both an oral advocate and brief writer.” His work has been recognized in the National Law Journal, The Legal 500, the Financial Times, and Managing Intellectual Property.
Personal
Harvard Law School, J.D., 2001; MIT, M.S., 1998; Oxford University, M.Sc., 1997; NCSU, B.S., 1996.
