Stites & Harbison, PLLC

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Stites & Harbison is pleased to announce that attorney Juan Carlos A. Marquez has joined the Alexandria, Va., office.  Mr. Marquez joins the firm as a member.

Mr. Marquez is a member of the Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group.  He has 20 years of experience in patent prosecution, intellectual property licensing and enforcement, and technology transfer.  Prior to joining Stites & Harbison (www.stites.com), he was a partner at a large, international law firm in Virginia.  He also was a project engineer with General Motors Corporations, Delco Electronics Division.  He earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, in 1991 and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from General Motors Institute, Flint, Mich., in 1986. 

Mr. Marquez is one of 17 Registered U.S. Patent Attorneys at Stites & Harbison.  His extensive patent law practice includes preparing and prosecuting national and international patent applications in a wide variety of technological arts, in drafting patentability, validity, infringement and right-to-use opinions, and in supporting intellectual property litigation matters.  He has prosecuted over 2,000 patent applications and drafted patent applications in a wide variety of technological arts.  He regularly counsels clients on validity, infringement and licensing issues.

He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans’ Claims, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

About Stites & Harbison

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, is a regional business and litigation firm with attorneys in Alexandria, Va.; Atlanta; Jeffersonville, Ind.; Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky.; and Nashville and Franklin, Tenn.  Tracing its origins to 1832, Stites & Harbison is one of the oldest law practices in the nation and among the largest law firms in the Southeast.  Our attorneys are consistently recognized by their peers in the following leading legal directories: Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory^®, The Best Lawyers in America^®, Chambers USA and Super Lawyers magazine.  Recent firm honors include being named: one of the 50 Best Overall Law Firms in America (Global Research), one of the Leading Law Firms in America (The American Lawyer), a Go-To Law Firm^® (Corporate Counsel), one of the Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity (MultiCultural Law Magazine) and a Top 10 Growth Firm (National Law Journal).

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