Stoll Keenon Ogden

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Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Firm overview. Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC (SKO) is a Lexington, Kentucky–headquartered regional full-service firm with roughly 180+ attorneys across five offices in Kentucky and Indiana (Lexington, Louisville, Frankfort, Indianapolis, and Evansville). It is a broad commercial practice with 40-plus practice areas rather than a dedicated IP boutique, and it is best characterized as a significant regional/Midwest firm rather than BigLaw. It is not an AmLaw 200 mainstay; the firm's individual lawyers are more visibly ranked than the institution — Chambers USA lists 13 ranked SKO individuals, and partner Steven B. Loy is Chambers-ranked (Band 4, Litigation: General Commercial — Kentucky), with Benchmark Litigation naming a slate of SKO "Local Litigation Stars."

IP litigation specialty. SKO's own practice description claims "national reach in all forms of intellectual property cases including patent, copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secret and unfair competition," with particular transactional depth in software/IT licensing, patent prosecution (biotech, medical devices, imaging, and mechanical fields), and post-grant patent analysis in the artificial turf industry. The tracked docket is narrow and reflects wireless/short-range communications and printing technology: all four tracked matters are Flexiworld Technologies v. Lexmark International and its companion Lexmark v. Flexiworld actions (E.D. Ky.), which asserted wireless printing and universal data output patents (e.g., U.S. Patents 7,609,402, 9,965,233, 10,140,073, 10,484,846). The firm's docket thus evidences patent defense in consumer/office hardware, wireless connectivity, and software standards — not pharma or semiconductor work.

Side preference. SKO's tracked patent work is exclusively defense-side: 0 plaintiff appearances versus 4 defendant appearances, and in every tracked matter the firm acted as local counsel, not lead trial counsel. The client in those matters is Lexmark, an operating company, facing a patent-licensing/NPE plaintiff (Flexiworld). The firm's practice descriptions and attorney biographies likewise emphasize defending established businesses (Lexmark, Pitney Bowes, animal-pharma/biotech clients, artificial turf manufacturers) rather than contingency fee–driven NPE assertion. There is no tracked evidence of SKO prosecuting patent cases as plaintiff-side counsel for licensing entities.

Notable cases and outcomes. The Flexiworld/Lexmark matters are the core of its tracked portfolio; public reporting indicates the four E.D. Ky. suits were dismissed on June 6 following settlement. SKO's most prominent patent-adjacent public result is Static Control Components, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., the Supreme Court Lanham Act false-advertising standing case argued by Steven Loy in December 2013 (multi-party litigation that also included patent infringement and antitrust claims). Other verifiable results from firm/attorney profiles: a patent-infringement defense for Lexmark in the Central District of California resolved by license agreement; defense of Pitney Bowes in a print-quality patent case yielding summary judgment limiting products via the § 287 marking/notice defense; and a summary judgment win plus over $4.5 million in attorney fees for a client in a patent infringement and antitrust case in the artificial turf industry (Managing Director P. Douglas Barr).

PTAB / IPR practice. The tracked record shows no SKO-authored IPR/PGR work. Lexmark's IPRs against Flexiworld's patents (e.g., IPR2023-00845 on the '402 patent, which was denied institution, and a related '233 petition) were filed by Perkins Coie as lead counsel, with SKO appearing only as district-court local counsel. Public sources do not support a meaningful standalone PTAB/post-grant practice at SKO or any filing volume figures; any such claim should be treated as unsupported.

Key partners / practice leaders. Steven B. Loy (Lexington) is the most prominent figure — co-chair of the IP Practice Group and longtime chair of the IP Litigation practice, Chambers-ranked in general commercial litigation and repeatedly listed in Benchmark Litigation and Kentucky Super Lawyers. Laura H. Pulliam (Louisville) chairs the firm's IP Business Services group and is repeatedly ranked for intellectual property. P. Douglas Barr is the firm's Managing Director and a veteran IP/business litigator, and Dana Howard (Lexington/Louisville) is a registered patent attorney handling IP litigation and prosecution. Attorney-count and revenue figures beyond the firm's own "180+ attorneys" representation should be treated cautiously, as no independently verified AmLaw or revenue data was located.