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`OVERVIEW
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`George C. Summerfield
`Partner
`Chicago
`+1.312.807.4376
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`George.Summerfield@klgates.com
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`George Summerfield is admitted to practice in Michigan. He is not currently admitted in Illinois.
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`George Summerfield has more than 30 years of patent litigation experience, including matters in district court, the
`U.S. International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the European Patent Office.
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`PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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`George began his career as a Staff Attorney with the Office of Unfair Import Investigations of the United States
`International Trade Commission, where he handled numerous section 337 cases in a variety of technologies on
`behalf of the Office. After leaving the ITC, George entered private practice, where he began representing private
`parties, including two major research institutions appearing as complainants, before the ITC. He also began
`handling matters in various federal district courts throughout the United States, where his clients included several
`Fortune 500 companies. As with his work at the ITC, George's litigation efforts in private practice have run the
`technological gamut.
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`By the time he joined K&L Gates, George had served as first chair patent litigator in several dozen intellectual
`property litigation matters before district courts and the ITC. He has also served as amici counsel for numerous
`universities and university-related organizations in intellectual property matters pending before the U.S. Court of
`Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Since joining the firm, George has continued, and
`expanded upon, his intellectual property litigation practice, having, for example, appeared in more than half a
`dozen section 337 cases before the ITC in his first three years at the firm.
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`George is active in the Richard Linn American Inn of Court, which specializes in the practice of intellectual
`property law. He has also provided assistance to several Eastern European governments in drafting intellectual
`property laws through programs administered by the United States Department of State, the United States
`Information Agency, and the Central and Eastern European Law Institute.
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`ACHIEVEMENTS
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`Two Fulbright Scholarships to Romania
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`CPC EXHIBIT 2009
`Apple Inc. v. CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd.
`IPR2022-00602
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`PROFESSIONAL / CIVIC ACTIVITIES
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` Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
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` ASTP-Proton
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` National Association of University and College Attorneys (NACUA)
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`SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
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`George has made numerous presentations to university related professional associations, including the
`Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and ASTP-Proton.
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`EDUCATION
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`J.D., Wayne State University Law School, 1987
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` B.A., King's College, 1983
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`ADMISSIONS
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` Bar of Michigan
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` Not Admitted in Illinois
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` Supreme Court of the United States
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` United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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` United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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` United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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` United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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` United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
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` United States District Court for the District of Arizona
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` United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
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` United States District Court for the District of North Dakota
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` United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
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` United States District Court for the Northern District of California
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` United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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` United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
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` United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
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`LANGUAGES
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` Chinese (Mandarin)
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`French
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` German
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` Romanian
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`THOUGHT LEADERSHIP POWERED BY HUB
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`26 May 2021, If San Francisco Is Not Your Final Destination... (Alerts/Updates)
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`14 October 2020, Five New Products from China Added to Forced Labor List (Alerts/Updates)
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`30 September 2020, Ready, Fire, Aim – Picking the Correct Vehicle for Constitutional Challenges to
`Administrative Agency Decisions (Alerts/Updates)
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`June 2020, COVID-19: Paved With Good Intentions – Regulatory Pitfalls to Manufacturing and Marketing
`COVID-Related Consumer Products (Webinar)
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`13 February 2020, Like a Hawk – The Seventh Circuit is Watching its Appellants and Weighing in on Best
`Practices on Appeal (Alerts/Updates)
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`18 September 2019, K&L Gates Triage: Five Key Questions for Academic Medical Centers About Patent
`Ownership and Enforcement (Podcast)
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`13 September 2018, Stopping Traffick: Actions Before the U.S. International Trade Commission to Stop
`Unfair and Unethically-Sourced Competition (Podcast)
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` April 2018, General Counsel University: Trade Secret Protection, Enforcement, and Risk Management in a
`Cyberworld (Webinar)
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`February 2018, Patent Law for Environmental Professionals (Webinar)
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`OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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`“Trade Secret Protection for AI Inventions (Part 2),” startup-together.com, 2019
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`“Trade Secret Protection for AI Inventions (Part 1),” startup-together.com, 2019
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`NEWS & EVENTS
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`4 November 2021, Stretching the Patent Prosecution Dollar: Maximizing the Value of Patent Procurement -
`Part I, hosted by ASTP (Event)
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`18 June 2020, Financial Times: Inventors learn to deploy their assets as collateral (Media Mention)
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`MEDIA MENTIONS
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` Quoted, Know Your (IP) Rights, GOLD The Business Magazine of Cypress, 20 October, 2019
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`AREAS OF FOCUS
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`IP Litigation
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` Appellate Litigation
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` K&L Gates Trial Academy
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