Tiffany L. Williams

Specialty / focus areas. Tiffany L. Williams is a registered patent attorney whose practice combines patent procurement and portfolio management with IP valuation/licensing, patent litigation, and post-grant validity work. Her web-available bios list a broad technology range — aerospace/aviation, athletic equipment and footwear, medical devices, electronic devices, software, telecommunications/Internet technology, chemicals and materials, and industrial and consumer mechanical products — consistent with her chemical-engineering background and her membership in Kilpatrick Townsend's Mechanical and Medical Devices Patent Group.

Side preference. Her one tracked appearance is plaintiff-side: counsel for adidas AG in Adidas AG v. Nike, Inc. at Kilpatrick Townsend. That single datapoint understates the practice, however: firm bios show an operating-company practice on both sides of the "v." — representing adidas in asserting and defending footwear patents (e.g., early favorable resolution of Cummings v. adidas USA, S.D.N.Y. 2008), and counseling manufacturers such as Oldcastle and defense contractors. There is no indication of NPE/PAE-side work.

Firm context. Williams was an associate and then partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton (Atlanta) for roughly 15 years — elected partner effective January 1, 2016 — where she chaired the firm's Patent Best Practices Committee and taught patent prosecution in its associate bootcamp. As of December 1, 2025, she is a partner at FisherBroyles LLP in Atlanta.

Notable cases and PTAB/IPR experience. IPR/PGR work is a genuine strength: she has appeared on adidas AG briefs in multiple proceedings against Nike, including IPR2013-00067 (PTAB invalidated Nike's '011 patent in 2014; Federal Circuit affirmed in part in 2015), IPR2016-00921/-00922, and the resulting Federal Circuit appeals — Adidas AG v. Nike, Inc., 894 F.3d 1256 (Fed. Cir. 2018) (granting SAS remand) and the 2020 merits decision at 963 F.3d 1355, where the court affirmed the Board against adidas. Her bios also tout experience with inter partes and ex parte reexamination and IPR petitions. The tracked case, Adidas AG v. Nike, Inc., is the Adidas-filed 2022 suit (E.D. Tex.) in the Adidas–Nike footwear/app-technology patent war, which was resolved by global settlement later in 2022 alongside Nike's Oregon district-court suit and ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1289.

Bar / education. Georgia bar (2007); registered with the USPTO (2006); admitted to the Federal Circuit and the Northern District of Georgia. B.S. chemical engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1996, highest honors); J.D., magna cum laude, Mercer University School of Law (2007).