Fee & Jeffries

Fee & Jeffries, P.A. is a boutique law firm with its sole office located in Tampa, Florida, founded in 1997. The firm specializes in representing businesses in a range of disputes and transactions, including complex intellectual property litigation. While not a BigLaw firm, its partners have been recognized in legal rankings such as Florida Trend's Legal Elite® and Florida's SuperLawyers®.

The firm's intellectual property litigation practice encompasses a wide array of technology areas, with experience in cases involving biomedical devices, inventory control software, optical scanning devices, industrial anti-theft equipment, and global positioning devices. Fee & Jeffries states it handles both prosecuting and defending infringement cases, indicating a versatile approach to patent disputes. However, the firm's tracked case appearances show two instances of acting as plaintiff's counsel, notably in Ricmic, LLC v. Heritage Medcall, LLC, where Richard Edson Fee served as Lead Counsel.

Fee & Jeffries also has experience with proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, including trademark opposition proceedings, suggesting engagement with administrative patent challenges. While the firm's website confirms its capability to represent clients in such proceedings, specific details regarding the volume or public outcomes of its PTAB/IPR practice were not readily available in the provided sources.

Key partners leading the firm's IP litigation practice include Richard Edson Fee and Kathleen M. Wade. Richard Edson Fee is a founding shareholder and is Board Certified by The Florida Bar as an Intellectual Property Law Specialist. Both Fee and Wade have been repeatedly named as Florida SuperLawyers® for their work in intellectual property litigation. Kathleen M. Wade, a shareholder, has extensive experience litigating patent, copyright, and trademark disputes in federal courts and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.