Steven B. Loy

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Steven B. Loy — Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC (Lexington, KY)

Practice focus. Loy is a commercial litigator whose IP work is concentrated in patent and Lanham Act litigation, and he serves as co-chair of SKO's Intellectual Property Practice Group (he was named the firm's IP Litigation chair in 2012). His patent matters have centered on printer and imaging hardware and consumables — toner cartridge design and remanufacturing, print-quality enhancement, and wireless/network printing and connectivity (Wi-Fi/Bluetooth-adjacent device-to-printer technologies). His broader docket includes antitrust, banking/lender liability and securities litigation; the public record does not show pharma, life-sciences, or standards-essential wireless (e.g., cellular SEP) patent work.

Side preference. The tracked record is entirely defense-side: 0 plaintiff appearances and 4 defendant appearances, all in the Flexiworld Technologies v. Lexmark and Lexmark v. Flexiworld matters in the Eastern District of Kentucky, where he appears as local counsel. That is consistent with his longer history as outside counsel to Lexmark International (an operating company) since the late 1990s, rather than prosecution for NPEs/PAEs. No plaintiff-side or patent-owner representation appears in the available sources.

Firm context. He has practiced at Stoll Keenon Ogden since 1994 and is a member in the Lexington office. No prior-firm or in-house history is evident in the sources reviewed.

Notable matters. His most prominent patent-adjacent case is the long-running Lexmark/Static Control litigation: he argued Static Control Components, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. before the U.S. Supreme Court on December 3, 2013, on Lanham Act false-advertising standing; the Court's unanimous 2014 decision adopted the zone-of-interests test and reversed the Sixth Circuit, a favorable outcome for Lexmark on the governing standard. He also appeared as counsel for cross-appellant Lexmark in the Federal Circuit en banc appeal in Lexmark Int'l, Inc. v. Impression Products, Inc., 816 F.3d 721 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (later reversed by the Supreme Court on patent exhaustion in 2017). His SKO profile also credits a summary-judgment win in a Pitney Bowes print-quality patent case, limiting the accused products under 35 U.S.C. § 287 marking/notice. In the tracked Flexiworld matters, Lexmark obtained dismissal with prejudice of all four consolidated suits in mid-2024 under a January 2024 license agreement that also ended related PTAB proceedings.

PTAB / IPR. No PTAB appearances are attributable to Loy in the sources reviewed. Notably, in the parallel IPR that Lexmark filed against Flexiworld's '233 patent (IPR2023-00846, instituted and then terminated as settled in January 2024), Lexmark's PTAB counsel of record were from Perkins Coie; Loy's involvement appears limited to the district court as local counsel. He should not be characterized as a regular IPR/PGR practitioner on this record.

Bar / education. J.D., University of Kentucky College of Law, 1994 (high distinction); B.A., University of Kentucky, 1991; admitted in Kentucky (1994) and Indiana, with admission to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, the Sixth Circuit, and the E.D./W.D. of Kentucky.