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Jeffrey G. Killian is an associate in the Washington D.C. office of Drinker Biddle & Reath and is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group.
Jeffrey focuses his practice on the procurement of patents across a broad range of technologies including materials science, solid-state physics, organic conductor/semiconductors, charge storage devices and electrochemistry, and nanotechnology. In addition, he is involved in counseling clients regarding their intellectual property, including the preparation of opinion letters, and in enforcement of client’s intellectual property rights.
He completed his doctorate in materials science and engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 2000, where he studied the electronic properties of conducting polymers.
Recent representative patent preparation and prosecution matters include:
U.S. Pat. No. 7,220,494 Metal dusting resistant product
U.S. Pat. No. 7,204,560 Rotary cutting bit with material-deflecting ledge
U.S. Pat. No. 7,011,867 - alumina coated cutting tool
U.S. Pat. No. 6,787,122 Method of Making Nanotube-Based Material with Enhanced Electron Field Emission Properties
U.S. Pat. No. 6,715,364: Method for Determining the Elasto-Plastic Behavior of Components Consisting of Anisotropic Material, and Application of the Process
U.S. Pat. No. 6,660,109 Method of Manufacturing Aluminide Sheet by Thermomechanical Processing of Aluminide Powders
U.S. Pat. No. 6,560,050 Optical Segmented RF Signature Managed Window
U.S. Pat. No. 6,512,431 Millimeterwave Module Compact Interconnect
U.S. Pub. No. 2005/0001168 Lightweight Laser Designator Ranger FLIR Optics
U.S. Pub. No. 2004/0247479 Method of Liquid Phase Sintering a Two-Phase Alloy
U.S. Pub. No. 2004/0196037 Detection with Evanescent Wave Probe
U.S. Pub. No. 2004/0108298 Fabrication and Activation Processes for Nanostructure Composite Field Emission Cathodes
U.S. Pub. No. 2004/0050912 Diffusion Bonding Process of Two-Phase Metal Alloys
U.S. Pub. No. 2003/0168912: Track Pin Bushing Having a Metallurgically Bonded Coating
Representative patent litigation matters include:
Joy MM Delaware, Inc. and Joy Technologies Inc., v. Sandvik Mining and Construction USA LLC U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (patent infringement defense related to block and sleeve holder for a mining bit)
Sandvik Intellectual Property AB v. Rockmore International, Inc. U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (patent infringement enforcement related to down-the-hole hammers)
D’Agostino v. Citibank, N.A. and Citibank (South Dakota), N.A. U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (patent infringement defense against a financial services business method patent)
Jeffrey was an associate with Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis until it was acquired by Buchanan Ingersoll in 2005. Previously, he served in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear powered submarine officer. He has published many papers in the field of polymer-based charge storage and was named as a co-inventor on four U.S. Patents. Jeffrey received his J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2004. He earned a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. degree in the same fields from The Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and 2000, respectively.
He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Jeffrey is admitted to practice in Washington DC, Virginia and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Representative Publications & Speeches
Protecting Proprietary Nanotechnology Processes, co-author, Corporate Counsel Magazine, October 2003
Electrochemical Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of Fluoro-Substituted Phenylene-2-Thienyl Polymers, co-author, 11 Chemistry of Materials 1075, 1999
Synthesis and Characterization of Thiophene-Based Polymers for All-Polymer Batteries, co-author, 217th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 1999
Phenylene-2-Thienyl Conducting Polymers for Charge Storage Applications, co-author, 194th meeting of The Electrochemical Society, Boston, MA, November 1998
Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of Fluorine-Substituted Phenylene-thienyl Polymers for Battery Applications, co-author, 97 Synthetic Metals 1, 1998
The Electrochemistry of Fluorine-Substituted Polyphenylthiophenes for Charge Storage Applications, co-author, 443 J. Electroanalytical Chemistry 103, 1998 |
