Kelly G. Swartz

Kelly G. Swartz is a registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 62394) and equity partner at Widerman Malek, P.L. in Melbourne, Florida, where she is also the firm's CFO. Her practice is primarily patent prosecution and IP counseling, not litigation: firm and directory profiles describe her drafting patent claims directed to mechanical, electrical, and software-based inventions and counseling clients on licensing and portfolio strategy. Her disclosed technical focus areas span medical devices, mechanical products, electronics, software, heart-monitoring technology, and unmanned systems/drones — consistent with the Space Coast/Brevard County client base (e.g., NASA-adjacent and aerospace companies such as Sidus Space and Aeronix appear in her USPTO filing history). She is a Florida Bar board-certified specialist in intellectual property law and also holds an LL.M. in taxation, which she pairs with IP work. Given the profile's nature as a prosecution-centric practice, no Wi-Fi/standards-essential-patent or pharmaceutical litigation focus is evident.

Side preference. The tracked data shows 0 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side appearance, and that single matter was as local counsel. There is no public record of her serving as lead trial counsel or asserting patents, so it would be inaccurate to characterize her as an NPE/PAE plaintiffs' lawyer or as a regular defense litigator. Her measurable courtroom-side work is limited.

Notable case. The one tracked matter is ABC IP, LLC et al. v. Big Daddy Enterprises, Inc. (N.D. Fla., consolidated with Rare Breed Triggers, LLC v. Big Daddy Enterprises, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-00149, and Rare Breed Triggers LLC v. Big Daddy Unlimited Inc., No. 1:22-cv-00061), a dispute over U.S. Patent No. 10,514,223 on a forced-reset AR-15 trigger. She appears as local counsel for the Big Daddy defendants; lead defense counsel of record were Eleanor M. Yost and Daniel Curtis Johnson (Carlton Fields) and John Coy Stull. The court (Judge Robert L. Hinkle) granted plaintiffs a preliminary injunction on December 30, 2021, and the case later resolved by consent judgment and permanent injunction holding the '223 claims valid, enforceable, and infringed. That result went against the side she represented, and the outcome is attributable to lead counsel rather than to her local-counsel role.

PTAB / IPR. No public record of her appearing in IPR or PGR proceedings. Her contested-agency experience is on the trademark side (e.g., TTAB opposition No. 91288692, where she filed a motion to withdraw as counsel in January 2025). This should be treated as absent, not merely unverified.

Bar / education. Admitted to the Florida Bar (2008); U.S. District Courts for the Middle, Southern, and Northern Districts of Florida; and the USPTO. B.S. in computer engineering, University of Florida (1999); J.D., Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law (2008). Before law school she worked roughly five years as an electrical engineer; she practiced at her own firm, Ingenuity Law (2012–2015), before joining Widerman Malek in 2015 and becoming an equity partner in 2019.

Sources: Widerman Malek firm profiles, Martindale, Super Lawyers, Florida Trend, patentbots/USPTO OED data, and the N.D. Fla. dockets and opinions in the Rare Breed/ABC IP v. Big Daddy matters. Where outcomes are described, they reflect the court record and contemporaneous reporting (e.g., Bloomberg Law/IP Law Daily).