Kristin Graham Noel

Proactive, aggressive and disciplined IP litigation counsel 

Kristin Noel is an experienced intellectual property (IP) trial lawyer. She has litigated IP rights for a variety of technologies, from telecommunications to stem cells, water fixtures to software, industrial machinery to drug targets. With extensive experience in high-stakes competitor disputes, and having tried cases to verdict, her practice includes:

• Patent litigation
• Trademark litigation
• Lanham Act litigation
• Trade secret litigation
• Copyright litigation
• Trade dress litigation

Kristin believes that front-end preparation dictates back-end results. Her team is proactive, aggressive and efficient. That discipline is one of the reasons Quarles has been named among the country’s most feared law firms in litigation by BTI Consulting.

Kristin is a former national chair of the firm’s IP Litigation team.

• Litigating complex IP disputes, including patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret and copyright disputes.

• Lead liability trial counsel obtaining a $44.1 million and $5.4 million verdicts in two patent cases between telecom competitors.
• Local counsel obtaining a $940 million jury verdict in a trade secrets case for a leading software company.
• Lead trial counsel for pharmaceutical company obtaining freedom-to-operate verdict for a company’s $11 billion drug target.
• Lead trial counsel for the world’s leading stem cell company, in a patent dispute with a licensor that claimed that the client’s core technology practiced dozens of its patent claims. Obtained a judgment that none of the client’s accused processes practices any of the asserted claims.
• Lead trial counsel for a vaccine manufacturer in a contract dispute. Obtained a jury verdict of no liability against our client and a $1.9 million judgment on our client’s counterclaims.
• Trial counsel for a major technology transfer institution in the enforcement of a patent license agreement with a pharmaceutical company. Obtained a jury verdict in favor of our client. Successfully argued appeal defending judgment and further obtaining an order that a judgment be entered, giving the client title to related IP.
• Co-lead trial counsel successfully defending an injection mold manufacturer in a lawsuit involving a competitor’s claims of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation claims.

• Obtained order granting attorneys’ fees under Section 285 against prolific patent troll that sued client for allegedly infringing patent that plaintiff should have known was invalid under Section 101.

• Obtained dismissal with prejudice of patent lawsuit on 101 grounds for leading healthcare software company. Successfully argued appeal defending judgment.
• Obtained dismissal with prejudice of patent lawsuit on invalidity grounds for leading healthcare software company. Affirmed on appeal.
• Obtained voluntary dismissal with prejudice, with no compensation paid, of patent action filed against major medical device company.
• Obtained voluntary dismissals with prejudice, with no compensation paid, of multiple patent actions filed against leading electronic healthcare record software company.
• Obtained voluntary dismissal with prejudice, with no compensation paid, of copyright action filed against leading electronic healthcare record software company.