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Meghan Quigley Toner
Counsel

Ms. Toner's practice includes IP litigation, patent prosecution, trademark protection and prosecution, and intellectual property counselling to small and midsize companies. Particular emphasis is placed upon U.S. and foreign patent portfolio strategy and management, opinion work including patentability analysis and clearance investigations, intellectual property licensing and agreements, due diligence investigations, and pre-suit investigations. Her work also focuses on strategic counselling for emerging companies to develop a comprehensive approach to intellectual property, such as conducting freedom-to-operate studies, obtaining patent protection in the United States and abroad, and planning defensive and offensive strategies.

As an IP litigator in NYC and Chicago, Ms. Toner has had significant experience in patent, copyright, trademark, trade dress infringement, trademark dilution, and cases involving unfair competition, false and deceptive advertising, misappropriation of trade secrets, and other complex civil litigation. Specific cases include representing a major engine manufacturer against claims of patent infringement, representing a pharmaceutical research concern on its patents to polymorphic forms of a pharmaceutical compound and its resulting drug products, representing a major seed company in its claims that genetically engineered corn infringed an existing patent, representing a small telecommunications start-up against claims of patent infringement on patents related to MEMS technology; representing a major provider of bill validation products in a patent infringement lawsuit; and defending a major inkjet printer maker on claims of trade secret misappropriation and patent ownership and inventorship.

Education

University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D.
University of Notre Dame, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Bar Admissions

United States Patent and Trademark Office
State of New York
State of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Professional Memberships

American Intellectual Property Law Association
New York State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
American Bar Association, IP Law Section