Tracy Zurzolo Quinn

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Professional summary — Tracy Zurzolo Quinn

Focus areas. Quinn is a Philadelphia-based IP litigator whose docket skews toward consumer products, mechanical/ornamental designs, and food-and-beverage brand disputes rather than telecom standards or life-sciences patent work. Her most significant patent matters involve design patents on gravity-feed display racks (Gamon Plus v. Campbell Soup), eyewear (Aspex Eyewear v. Altair Eyewear), electronic article surveillance tags (Checkpoint Systems v. All-Tag Security), and signage (LogoPaint A/S v. 3D Sport Signs). She also handles trademark and copyright matters (e.g., H.J. Heinz, Smile Brands, InterArch), so her practice is broader IP litigation with design/mechanical patents at its core.

Side preference. Her tracked record is entirely defense-side (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant), and the public record is consistent: she has represented accused infringers and patent challengers — Campbell Soup and Trinity Manufacturing against Gamon Plus, Altair Eyewear against Aspex, and All-Tag/Sensormatic against Checkpoint. She is best characterized as an operating-company defense lawyer, not an NPE/PAE-side prosecutor or a serial plaintiff's counsel.

Firm context. The tracked appearance is under Reed Smith, where she joined in 1999 from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and later led the firm's intellectual property group. Public records show she left Reed Smith in July 2018 with a 12-lawyer group to open Holland & Knight's Philadelphia office, and pro hac vice filings, the 2022 Gamon Supreme Court docket, and her Law360 profile all list her at Holland & Knight. (I could not verify her current status after 2022, so the firm listed in the case data may be historical rather than current.)

Notable cases. In Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. Altair Eyewear, Inc., 484 F. App'x 565 (Fed. Cir. 2012), she argued for defendant-appellee Altair and the Federal Circuit affirmed in a nonprecedential disposition. Her most prominent result is the Gamon Plus design-patent dispute: as lead trial counsel for Campbell Soup, she drove five IPRs (see below) and the appeals in Campbell Soup Co. v. Gamon Plus, Inc., 939 F.3d 1335 (Fed. Cir. 2019) and 10 F.4th 1268 (Fed. Cir. 2021), where the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB and held the asserted display-rack designs obvious — a precedential win on design-patent primary references and the coextensiveness/nexus standard. In Checkpoint Systems v. All-Tag Security, she was on the defense team that won a jury verdict of noninfringement, invalidity, and unenforceability plus a ~$6.6M § 285 fee award, which the Federal Circuit later vacated and remanded in light of Octane Fitness/Highmark.

PTAB/IPR. Yes — she was admitted pro hac vice as back-up counsel in five related Campbell Soup IPRs (IPR2017-00087, -00091, -00094, -00095, -00096) covering four design patents and one utility patent, and later became lead counsel in those proceedings after a firm change.

Bar/education. Admitted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey (1993); U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Federal Circuits; E.D. Pa. and D.N.J. B.A., University of Pennsylvania (1990); J.D. magna cum laude, Temple University (1993).