Kristin Graham Noel

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 believes 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.

• Litigating complex IP disputes, including patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret and copyright disputes.

• Lead liability trial counsel obtaining a $44.1 million and $5.4 million verdicts in two patent cases between telecom competitors.
• Local counsel obtaining a $940 million jury verdict in a trade secrets case for a leading software company.
• Lead trial counsel for pharmaceutical company obtaining freedom-to-operate verdict for a company’s $11 billion drug target.
• Lead trial counsel for the world’s leading stem cell company, in a patent dispute with a licensor that claimed that the client’s core technology practiced dozens of its patent claims. Obtained a judgment that none of the client’s accused processes practices any of the asserted claims.
• Lead trial counsel for a vaccine manufacturer in a contract dispute. Obtained a jury verdict of no liability against our client and a $1.9 million judgment on our client’s counterclaims.
• Trial counsel for a major technology transfer institution in the enforcement of a patent license agreement with a pharmaceutical company. Obtained a jury verdict in favor of our client. Successfully argued appeal defending judgment and further obtaining an order that a judgment be entered, giving the client title to related IP.
• Co-lead trial counsel successfully defending an injection mold manufacturer in a lawsuit involving a competitor’s claims of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation claims.
• Obtained dismissal with prejudice of patent lawsuit on 101 grounds for leading healthcare software company. Successfully argued appeal defending judgment.
• Obtained dismissal with prejudice of patent lawsuit on invalidity grounds for leading healthcare software company. Affirmed on appeal.
• Obtained voluntary dismissal with prejudice, with no compensation paid, of patent action filed against major medical device company.
• Obtained voluntary dismissals with prejudice, with no compensation paid, of multiple patent actions filed against leading electronic healthcare record software company.
• Obtained voluntary dismissal with prejudice, with no compensation paid, of copyright action filed against leading electronic healthcare record software company.