Stephen M. Tillery

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Stephen M. Tillery — Patent Litigation Profile

Focus areas. Mr. Tillery's tracked patent-litigation footprint is thin: the case data reflects a single appearance, on the plaintiff side, with him listed in a counsel role at Korein Tillery. That appearance is not otherwise identified in the source data, so no technology field can be attributed to it. His firm biography does list "patent infringement" and "computer technology" among the many areas he has litigated, alongside securities, antitrust, pharmaceutical, environmental, tobacco, products liability, qui tam/whistleblower, FELA and consumer fraud work. On the available record, there is no basis to describe him as a Wi-Fi/standards, pharma-patent, or mechanical-patent specialist; his patent work appears incidental to a broad complex-litigation and class action practice rather than a dedicated patent docket.

Side preference. Plaintiff side, decisively. The tracked data shows 1 plaintiff-side appearance and 0 defendant-side appearances, and every verifiable matter in his public record — tobacco, antitrust, environmental contamination, ERISA, wage-and-hour, securities — is plaintiff/class-side. He is not an NPE/PAE assertion lawyer in the conventional sense, and there is no evidence of a defense-side operating-company patent practice. He is best characterized as a plaintiffs' class action and complex-litigation trial lawyer who occasionally has taken patent-infringement matters, not as either an NPE prosecutor or a corporate defense counsel.

Firm context. He is the senior and founding member of Korein Tillery LLC, with offices in St. Louis and Chicago. He joined the firm (now Korein Tillery) in 1988 and has practiced since 1976; no prior firm history relevant to patent litigation is documented beyond two early clerkships. There is no indication he has ever been in-house.

Notable matters. His prominent results are non-patent: he was plaintiff's lead trial counsel in Price v. Philip Morris Inc., which produced a $10.1 billion bench verdict in 2003 (later reversed, then reinstated by the Illinois Appellate Court in 2014, earning him Litigation Daily's Litigator of the Week). He led Korein Tillery's representation of the National Credit Union Administration in RMBS litigation, recovering more than $5.1 billion in settlements, and the firm's In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litigation ($2.3 billion in settlements) and Senne v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball ($185 million wage-and-hour settlement) matters. None of these are patent cases, and no patent verdict, Federal Circuit appeal, or settlement attributable to him was found.

PTAB / IPR experience. None found. There is no evidence in the searchable record of Mr. Tillery appearing before the PTAB in IPR or PGR proceedings.

Bar / education. Admitted in Illinois (1976), Missouri (1990), the District of Columbia (2011) and New York (2018); U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1980) and the U.S. Supreme Court (1988). J.D. cum laude, Saint Louis University School of Law (1976); B.A. magna cum laude, Illinois College (1972). (Bar and education details are from his firm biography and Martindale profile.)