Practice Expertise

  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Patent Litigation
  • Inter Partes Review Proceedings
  • Design Patents

Areas of Practice

  • Design Patents
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Inter Partes Review Proceedings
  • Patent Litigation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Patent
  • Patent - Consumer Products and Industrial ...
  • Patent - University Research and Technology ...
  • Research Institutions
  • Research Institutions & Higher Education
  • Technology Transfer
  • Trade Secrets
  • Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition
  • Trademark Litigation
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Profile

Proactive, aggressive and disciplined IP litigation counsel 

Kristin Noel is an experienced intellectual property (IP) trial lawyer. She has litigated IP rights for a variety of technologies, from telecommunications to stem cells, water fixtures to software, industrial machinery to drug targets. With extensive experience in high-stakes competitor disputes, and having tried cases to verdict, her practice includes:

  • Patent litigation
  • Trademark litigation
  • Lanham Act litigation
  • Trade secret litigation
  • Copyright litigation
  • Trade dress litigation

Kristin is a believer that front-end preparation dictates back-end results. Her team is proactive, aggressive and efficient. That discipline is one of the reasons Quarles has been called a “Litigation Powerhouse” by the BTI Consulting Group and is on BTI’s “Honor Roll” in the categories of “IP Litigation” and “Most Feared Litigation Firms.”

Kristin is a former national chair of the firm’s IP Litigation team.

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois
  • Wisconsin

Education

  • Northwestern University (B.A., 1993)
  • Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1996)

Areas of Practice

  • Design Patents
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Inter Partes Review Proceedings
  • Patent Litigation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Patent
  • Patent - Consumer Products and Industrial Design
  • Patent - University Research and Technology Transfer
  • Research Institutions
  • Research Institutions & Higher Education
  • Technology Transfer
  • Trade Secrets
  • Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition
  • Trademark Litigation

Professional Career



Articles

  • Exergen Corp. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: A Heightened Standard for Pleading Inequitable Conduct in Patent Cases
  • “Federal Circuit Applies Volkswagen II to Transfer Patent Case Out of Eastern District of Texas ‘Rocket Docket"
  • “The Fifth Circuit’s Decision in ‘In re Volkswagen’ and What It Could Mean to the Patent Community"
  • “The Patent Enforcement Landscape & Realizing Additional Value from Your Patent Portfolios"
  • “Updates to Patent Licensing Laws"

Seminar

  • 2017 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
  • Litigation Leaders Webinar Series: IP Litigation Advocacy

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