Kerry Timbers

Practice Areas

Litigation

Patent

Trademark

Career

Kerry Timbers is the managing partner and a revered intellectual property litigator at Sunstein LLP. His repertoire of victories includes decisions that have clarified matters of law, monumental settlements, and multimillion-dollar trial verdicts. Timbers’s trial background includes jury and non-jury cases, and arguments before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - most recently obtaining a sweeping jury verdict win in a patent infringement lawsuit for a global provider of point of sale payment terminals. His nationally recognized life sciences, technology, and consumer products clients entrust him with their most complex IP and long-term business objectives.

Wide-Ranging Impact

Timbers handles litigation involving computer operating system architectures, telephony systems and devices, pharmaceuticals, medical and electromechanical devices, plastics products, and more. He has argued before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, participated in interference proceedings and inter partes reviews before the PTAB and USPTO, and handled all aspects of trademark and copyright protection in courts and before the USPTO and TTAB.

Highlights

Obtained sweeping jury verdict win in patent infringement lawsuit for Ingenico Inc., a global provider of point-of-sale payment terminals.

Won $16 million verdict in David versus Goliath patent dispute representing two-person team that invented forehead-reading thermometers.