Mr. Atkins is a trial lawyer who focuses on intellectual property and related areas in trial and appellate courts, the International Trade Commission (“ITC”), arbitrations, mediations, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

His objective is to efficiently find a business solution. If that is unobtainable, Mr. Atkins has extensive litigation experience as lead counsel in trials, arbitrations, mediations, and appellate matters. He is a registered patent attorney who personally handles his cases using the latest trial management techniques and software with attorneys who are carefully selected for their extensive technical and legal experience. In addition to current ongoing litigation and appellate matters, some examples of his cases include:

• A successful jury verdict and JMOL decision for a patentholder in the Eastern District of Virginia—asserted two patents of behalf of U.S. company against Taiwanese company with a Chinese factory and a U.S. sales company; KSR obviousness case was decided shortly before trial and applied; client's patents found to be infringed and not invalid; case settled shortly after trial;
• A successful jury defense verdict and favorable summary judgment decision for accused infringer in Southern District of Florida—Florida patent-holder sought over $400 million in damages for alleged trade secret theft, Lanham Act (false advertising) violation, breach of contract, and patent infringement from European client and related companies; jury verdict and summary judgment decision was affirmed on appeal at the Federal Circuit; client awarded $200,000 in costs on remand;
• Pro bono representation as co-counsel of sole defendant in a first degree murder trial on Eastern Shore of Maryland—circumstantial evidence case;
• Obtaining a favorable jury verdict in a five week patent infringement trial between a tier one OEM auto parts supplier and a competitor;
• Obtaining a quick and successful settlement for an accused infringer in a preliminary injunction case on a trademark;
• Representing a major radio manufacturer as a respondent at the ITC—case involved HD radio and was settled before trial;
• Settling a complicated inventorship and contract case involving an inventor, pharmaceutical drug research, and a major university shortly after taking over the case;
• Representing a health care company in a complex MRI patent infringement litigation;
• Filing an amicus petition on behalf of Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco for a case at the Federal Circuit;
• Negotiating a favorable settlement in a federal trademark litigation after being brought in on the final day of discovery;
• Successfully defending a foreign manufacturer of television components in an antidumping case at the ITC by getting the allegation dismissed during the preliminary review by the ITC Commissioners;
• Successfully representing a Canadian car parts manufacturer in a contentious 337 action at the ITC; and
• Assisting in courtroom on many-months multi-patent infringement trial in which client was awarded over $200 million in damages, and more in follow-on litigation.

Mr. Atkins has been a member of the firm’s Managing Board, the co-leader of the firm's Intellectual Property section, Managing Partner of the Northern Virginia office, and a member of the firm's Compensation Committee. He has also been President of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2005-06) and a member of the ABA's House of Delegates. He was recently recommended again by Chambers USA as a leading intellectual property attorney and has been named to the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America. He recently finished a chapter for BNA's Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook — 2009.

Mr. Atkins has also chaired the ADR Committee of the IP Law section of the ABA as well as the Antitrust and Inequitable Conduct Committees for a number of years. He is the past chair of the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright section of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Bar Association of the District of Columbia, District of Columbia Bar, Maryland Bar Association, Virginia Bar Association, American Bar Association, Giles S. Rich Inns of Court

U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Federal, District of Columbia, and Armed Forces Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Maryland, District of Columbia, the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, and various other districts; International Trade Commission