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Kourtney Mueller Merrill Partner

  • Denver

    D +1.303.291.2388

    F +1.303.291.2488

    Denver

    1900 Sixteenth Street, Suite 1400

    Denver, CO 80202-5255

    +1.303.291.2388

    KMerrill@perkinscoie.com

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Overview

Experience

Patent Litigation

Realtime Adaptive, LLC v. Veritas Technologies LLC, et al.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. 
Representing Lumen Technologies in a patent infringement action involving data compression technology. 

Norman International, Inc., et al. v. Hunter Douglas, Inc., et al.

U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Represented Norman in a competitor action involving cordless window covering technology.

Gates Corporation v. Optibelt Corporation

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Represented Gates in a competitor action involving polyurea-urethane cord treatment technology.

Realtime Data, LLC v. Code42 Software, Inc.

U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Represented Code42 in a patent infringement action involving data compression technology.

Advanced Transit Dynamics, Inc. v. Ridge Corporation

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Represented ATDynamics in a competitor action involving aerodynamic devices and won a preliminary injunction. Settled shortly thereafter.

Legacy Building Solutions, Inc. v. Accu Steel, Inc.

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Represented Accu Steel in a competitor action involving keder rail technology.

Vantage Point Technology v. Broadcom Corporation

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Represented Broadcom in connection with infringement claims brought by Vantage Point relating to ARM processors.

MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. v. Gigoptix, Inc.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Represented MACOM in a competitor action involving high speed optical communication device technology.

Potter Voice Technologies v. Microsoft Corporation

U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Represented Microsoft in its defense against claims of patent infringement involving speech recognition in mobile device technology.

Intellectual Property Litigation

DarkOwl, LLC v. Arkowl LLC et al.

U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Representing DarkOwl in a trademark infringement declaratory judgment action.

Technetics Group Daytona, Inc. v. N2 Biomedical, LLC

State of North Carolina Business Court
Represented Technetics in a complex commercial litigation dispute.

Melin LLC et al. v. Love Your Melon, Inc. et al.

U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Represented Melin and Alohat in a competitor trademark infringement and unfair competition action.

Inter Partes Review (IPR)

Cradlepoint Inc. et al. v. Sisvel International S.A.

IPR2020-01099, IPR2020-01103, IPR2021-00580

Represent Sierra Wireless as lead counsel in inter partes review proceedings for U.S. Patent Nos. 6,529,561, 8,879,503, and 7,869,396 involving cellular radio system technology. 

Laird Technologies, Inc. v. MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.

IPR2015-00667, IPR2015-00670
Represented MACOM in inter partes review proceedings for U.S. Patent No. 6,272,349 involving global positioning system (GPS) receiver technology. Settled.

Norman International, Inc. v. Hunter Douglas Inc. et al.

Represented Norman International in inter partes review proceedings for U.S. Patent Nos. 6,283,192 and 6,968,884. Final written decision.

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Bar and Court Admissions

  • Colorado
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Education

  • University of Texas School of Law, J.D., with honors, Order of the Coif, 2005
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln, B.S., Biological Systems Engineering, with highest distinction, 2002