Kelly Casey Mullally is Of Counsel in the Firm’s Atlanta office and a member of the Intellectual Property and Appellate Law practice groups. Ms. Mullally has experience in all stages of patent and trademark litigation, from bench and jury trials in the U.S. District Courts, to U.S. Circuit Court appeals, through the U.S. Supreme Court certiorari petition stage. Ms. Mullally provides client counseling in patent, trademark, and copyright procurement and enforcement. She represents individuals and businesses in trademark prosecution and inter partes proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is also a registered patent attorney.
Skilled in readying cases for appeal, Ms. Mullally also focuses her practice on federal appellate litigation. She has substantial experience analyzing complex trial court records to distill themes and strategies for appeal briefs and oral arguments, successfully navigating disputes through the federal appellate process. She represents clients and collaborates with trial counsel to best preserve, posture, and perfect critical issues for appeal. Ms. Mullally enjoys applying her appellate background in new contexts to address threshold procedural issues and resolve difficult legal questions in a broad range of subject matters, such as contract, employment, tax, torts, and receivership disputes. Following law school, Ms. Mullally served as a law clerk to the Honorable J.L. Edmondson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Honorable William C. Bryson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Ms. Mullally was a law professor, with a teaching and research emphasis on intellectual property, contract law, and torts, for ten years. She has authored numerous articles and given speeches regarding patent and copyright law for national and local organizations throughout the country. Her work has been cited by judges, scholars, and practioners. She previously served on the editorial board and as a Notes editor for the Georgia Law Review.
Before attending law school, Ms. Mullally worked in academic and industry research and development involving synthesis of organic compounds and protein adhesion on nonwoven polymer materials.