Kim Coghill

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Kim Coghill (Kimberly E. Coghill) — Troutman Pepper Locke, Washington, D.C. (Registered Patent Attorney)

Specialty / focus areas. Coghill's practice centers on patent litigation and IP counseling across multiple fora — district court, the ITC, and the PTAB — with stated particular strength in invalidity/validity arguments under §§ 101 and 112 and in managing parallel district court/ITC/Patent Office campaigns. Her technology mix is broad and largely mechanical/electrical, materials science, medical device, software, and pharmaceutical: her firm bio cites software, pharma, materials science, and medical device cases, and her tracked matter is solar electrical balance-of-systems hardware. Public dockets also show her on the 3Shape side of the intraoral dental-scanning patent disputes (Align v. 3Shape, 3Shape v. Medit, 3Shape v. Carestream Dental). There is no evidence she works in Wi-Fi/standards-essential-patent litigation; searches surfaced nothing in that space.

Side preference. The tracked data show one appearance, on the plaintiff side (Shoals v. Voltage), so it is too thin to support a real preference claim. The broader record indicates she works both sides: she has represented respondents in ITC Section 337 investigations, defended 3Shape in district court, and also asserted patents for 3Shape as plaintiff and for Shoals as plaintiff. Nothing suggests NPE/PAE prosecution work — her clients appear to be operating companies (dental imaging, consumer products, solar components).

Firm context. She is a Partner in Troutman Pepper Locke's Intellectual Property Department in D.C. The firm was Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders (formed in 2020 from the Troutman Sanders/Pepper Hamilton combination) and became Troutman Pepper Locke following the 2025 combination with Locke Lord; the tracked firm name reflects the earlier form. Before Troutman, court filings place her as an attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC in Alexandria, Virginia. Her Troutman bio also notes prior service as a USPTO patent examiner in nuclear technology, and an earlier Buchanan-era profile describes non-IP civil litigation at an Atlanta firm before she focused on IP. She was elevated to partner at Troutman Pepper in a later class (she is listed among promoted partners in the firm's announcement).

Notable cases, outcomes, and PTAB work. Her most prominent tracked matter is Shoals Technologies Group, LLC v. Voltage, LLC (M.D.N.C. 1:25-cv-00026), litigated in parallel with ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1438 over photovoltaic trunk-bus cable assemblies. Per Troutman's own announcement (Feb. 19, 2026), an ITC ALJ found Voltage and Ningbo Voltage Smart Production in violation of Section 337 as to two Shoals patents, and the team also defeated institution of IPR petitions against those same two patents. In the district court case, Judge Michael Urbanski denied Voltage's effort to hold the '375, '376, and '295 patents unenforceable for inequitable conduct and unclean hands after a multi-week 2026 bench trial, while taking under advisement the damages impact of a February 2024 prosecution-bar stipulation violation. Related PTAB filings show discretionary denial of IPR2025-01443 (Dec. 18, 2025) and a discretionary-denial request in IPR2026-00068. On the defense side, her bio credits winning invalidity arguments in ITC Investigations 337-TA-1091 and 337-TA-1144 (findings of no violation), a Rule 12 win invalidating claims under § 101, and defeating institution of an IPR on foam-roller technology. She also appears in PTAB papers in the Align/3Shape IPRs (e.g., IPR2021-01240, IPR2021-01309) and speaks on PTAB post-grant practice, including the firm's "Patents: Post-Grant" podcast on Director Review — so recurring IPR/PTAB involvement is reasonably supported, though her IPR record is not deep enough to call her a PTAB specialist.

Bar / education. Admitted in Georgia and the District of Columbia, and registered before the USPTO. J.D., University of Kentucky (2011); B.S., nuclear and radiological engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2008); clerked for Judge Karon O. Bowdre, N.D. Ala. (2009). Note on disambiguation: several unrelated individuals share this name (a BioWorld editor, a Canadian screenwriter), and one people-search aggregator lists career details I did not rely on; the profile above is drawn from the firm bio, court filings, and PTAB/ITC records.