As chair of Bradley's Intellectual Property Practice Group, Jeff Dyess is a litigation partner with over two decades of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in the areas of intellectual property, competitive practice, trade secret and complex commercial disputes. An experienced IP and commercial litigator and registered patent attorney, Jeff devotes a significant amount of his practice to patent, intellectual property and trade secret litigation matters.
Jeff has litigated patent disputes in federal district courts in Alabama, California, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Texas, and Utah. He also has patent litigation experience before the International Trade Commission and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Jeff is admitted to practice in all federal district courts in Alabama, as well as the United States Courts of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit and the Federal Circuit. In 2002, he was admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
His recent patent litigation experience includes:
Filing a declaratory judgment action on behalf of one of the nation's largest processors of bank and credit card payment transactions seeking declarations of both non-infringement and invalidity involving business methods patents for processing bill payments taken over the phone.