Greg Reilly is a trial and appellate litigator with a particular focus on patent litigation. His practice also involves litigating products liability and commerical disputes. Mr. Reilly regularly represents clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device, electronics, and aviation industries.
Mr. Reilly has experience in all aspects of patent and other litigation in federal courts across the country. He is regularly responsible for briefing dispositive and other motions, writing claim construciton briefs, conducting fact and expert discovery, and directing trial preparation. Mr. Reilly has argued claim construction hearings, summary judgment motions, and motions in limine in patent cases, and has taken or defended numerous depositions of both fact and expert witnesses. Mr. Reilly second-chaired a three day commercial arbitration, examining the key fact witness and the damages expert. The arbitration was initiated by the other party seeking millions of dollars, but the arbitrator ruled that our client owed nothing and instead was owed money and entitled to attorney’s fees and costs.
Mr. Reilly has extensive experience before the Federal Circuit. His Federal Circuit briefs have addressed a wide range of issues, including claim construction, inequitable conduct, written description and priority, lost profits, willfulness, and transfer. Mr. Reilly has drafted merits briefs, amicus briefs, petitions for rehearing en banc, petitions for writs of mandamus, and petitions for interlocutory review. Mr. Reilly worked on the en banc briefing on inequitable conduct in the recent Therasense case. Mr. Reilly also has appeared before the Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits, where his briefs have addressed federal preemption, the government contractor defense, and the forum non conveniens doctrine.
From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Reilly was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Judge Timothy B. Dyk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Reilly graduated, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Georgetown University. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Reilly taught seventh grade in rural North Carolina as part of the Teach for America program.