Kevin D. Abernethy

I'll research this attorney's background and the tracked case.

Summary — Kevin D. Abernethy

Specialty / focus. The tracked case list is a single plaintiff-side patent matter, Rare Breed Triggers, LLC et al. v. BDU, LLC, which places him in the forced-reset-trigger / mechanical firearms-accessory space — the patent family (U.S. Pat. No. 10,514,223 and related patents) covering hammer-reset trigger assemblies for AR-pattern rifles that has spawned the wide-ranging Rare Breed / ABC IP enforcement campaign. That is the only patent matter reflected in the tracked data; there is no evidence in the record of Wi-Fi/standards, pharmaceutical, or software patent work.

Side preference. One appearance, one plaintiff-side role (1-0 plaintiff), at the time listed as of counsel at the firm "Abernethy, Vedel, & Skov." On the basis of a single case, he reads as counsel for a patent owner/asserting party rather than a repeat defense-side litigator for operating companies — but a one-case sample cannot support a broader characterization.

Firm context. The tracked entry lists Abernethy, Vedel, & Skov (of counsel), a firm I was unable to locate or verify through public sources; no firm website, bar directory entry, or docket appearance tied to that name surfaced. Web search instead returns a Kevin D. Abernethy who is of counsel at Miller & Martin in Atlanta and previously a partner at Hall Booth Smith, Chief of the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia, Vice President for Government Relations at the University of Georgia, and general counsel at ABCO, Inc. That attorney's published practice is corporate, government relations, regulatory, and general/complex civil litigation — not patent litigation, and his cited trial record (e.g., Eckhardt v. United States, Tello v. United States, Bender v. Esper) involves no patent or IPR matters. I cannot confirm that the Miller & Martin Kevin D. Abernethy is the same person named of counsel in the tracked patent case; the name is not uncommon and the firm affiliations do not match. This should be resolved by counsel before any of the biographical detail below is relied on.

Notable cases / outcomes. Rare Breed Triggers, LLC et al. v. BDU, LLC is the sole tracked matter. Related dockets show that Rare Breed and ABC IP's 2021–2022 Northern District of Florida infringement actions against Big Daddy Unlimited and affiliated defendants resolved via a confidential settlement agreement and consent judgments/permanent injunctions entered in October 2022, with later breach-of-contract, fraud, and contempt proceedings (and a September 2025 order compelling arbitration) following alleged evasion of those injunctions. I could not verify BDU, LLC's specific docket number or outcome, nor that this attorney signed the operative filings.

PTAB / IPR experience. None identified. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB proceedings attributable to this attorney appeared in search results.

Bar / education. Sourceable only for the Georgia attorney referenced above: J.D., Georgia State University College of Law (2005); B.A., University of Georgia (1999); admitted in Georgia and Tennessee. Not verified as belonging to the attorney in the tracked case — omit unless identity is confirmed.