Craig Leavell helps intellectual property owners protect and enforce their rights and defends those accused of infringing the rights of others. With deep patent infringement and trade secrets litigation experience, Craig’s work spans many technologies and sectors. His practice includes utility and design patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, unfair trade and contract disputes. He’s known for his ability to efficiently digest the science and mechanics behind why technologies work, translating complicated facets before courts and juries.
Advising Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurs, Craig defends clients before jury trials, bench trials and preliminary injunction hearings in both district and appellate courts around the country. He regularly represents clients in inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), investigations before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and in mediations and arbitrations.
Curious by nature, I am driven to help my clients protect their ideas and innovations."
Credentials
Education
- University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 1998, magna cum laude
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, B.S., general engineering, 1995, cum laude
Bar Admissions
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Illinois
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar)
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit