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Patrick M. Torre

Lexington, KY

859-226-2333

Patrick M. Torre is a Registered Patent Attorney in Stites & Harbison, PLLC’s Intellectual Property & Technology Services Group, Lexington office, and is admitted to practice law in Kentucky and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. His practice focuses on intellectual property protection strategy, including counseling clients on issues of infringement, validity, and patentability, patent drafting, prosecution, and appellate proceedings, trademark prosecution, trade secrets and transfer, and intellectual property licensing.

Pat holds Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Animal Science from the University of Tennessee. Prior to entering the practice of law, he worked in academic research in the areas of animal science, life science, biotechnology, and the intersection of immunology and nutrition. He completed post-doctoral appointments at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (now the Jean Meyer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging) at Tufts University, Boston MA and at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science. After completing law school at the University of Kentucky and prior to entering private practice, he served as in-house IP counsel at Alltech, Inc. in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Pat has over 20 years of legal experience in representing a wide range of clients, including individual inventors, start-ups, University tech transfer offices, and major corporations.

Capabilities

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property & Technology

Patent Prosecution & Protection

Biotechnology/Life Sciences

Trademarks

Copyrights

Recent News, Articles & Speaking Engagements

Potential Changes to Enforcement under the Bayh-Dole Act

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, November 7, 2025

Protecting Proprietary Information of a Business

Bench & Bar, Kentucky Bar Association, May/June 2025

In Time for Your Halloween Celebration, A Few Spooky Patents

Kentucky Intellectual Property Alliance (kyipa.org), October 22, 2024

USPTO Announced Termination of its After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, October 7, 2024

Protecting Employer Proprietary Information Following the FTC’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, June 20, 2024

Copyright Basics

Kentucky Intellectual Property Alliance (KYIPA) News, March 1, 2024

,with Trevor T. Graves

Trade Secrets Basics

Kentucky Intellectual Property Alliance (KYIPA) News, March 1, 2024

,with Donovan D. Gibbs II

USPTO Issues Enablement Guidelines Following Amgen v. Sanofi

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, January 17, 2024

Legal Overview of Protecting Client and Business Information

19th Biennial Business Associations Law Institute, Lexington, KY April 18-19, 2023

,with Trevor T. Graves

Trademark Law Developments in the Metaverse

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, May 3, 2023

Scammers are Now Impersonating the USPTO: What You Need to Know

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, March 6, 2023

The Twelve Days of I.P. Christmas

,with Joel T. Beres, Jeffrey A. Haeberlin, James Hayne, Thomas J. Mihill (TJ), B. Aaron Schulman and Gary N. Stewart (Nick),

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, December 14, 2022

Metaverse 3D Replicas Spark Open Questions Over IP Protections

by Kelcee Griffis, Bloomberg Law, August 15, 2022

Intellectual Property in the Metaverse

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, May 31, 2022

Recent Patent Program Updates by the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, February 11, 2022

Stites & Harbison adds four IP attorneys

by Haley Cawthon, KYINNO, September 27, 2021

,with Trevor T. Graves, Michael S. Hargis and Warren D. Schickli

Stites & Harbison Adds Four IP Attorneys in Kentucky

by Adrian Cruz, Law360, July 19, 2021

,with Trevor T. Graves, Michael S. Hargis and Warren D. Schickli

Intellectual property attorneys join Stites & Harbison

by staff reporter, The Lane Report, July 15, 2021

,with Trevor T. Graves, Michael S. Hargis and Warren D. Schickli

Recent Assignments

Served as outside intellectual property counsel for several U.S. universities, private companies, start-ups and early-stage companies, and entrepreneurs.

Prepared and prosecuted patent applications in a variety of biotechnological, biological, pharmaceutical, computer software, dermatologic, nutraceutical, medical, medical device, and mechanical arts.

Managed domestic and international patent portfolios and prosecution involving applications and patents in various regions/countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Europe, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Bar Admissions

Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Memberships

Kentucky Bar Association

  • IP Law Section, Member
  • IP Law Section, CLE Subcommittee
  • IP Law Section, Public and Professional Affairs Committee

American Bar Association

  • Health Law Section

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Community Involvement

Judge, 2025 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office National Patent Application Drafting Competition, Midwest Regional Rounds

BioTN and Life Science Venture Program, Mentor, March 2023-present

Education

J.D.,

1998

University of Kentucky College of Law

Org / Honor

Kentucky Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, Articles Editor (1997-98)

University of Kentucky College of Law Trial Advocacy Board, Co-President (1997-98)

Ph.D.,

1991

Animal Science

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

M.S.,

1987

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

B.S.,

1984

Agriculture

University of Tennessee at Martin

More Than Stites & Harbison

Pat was previously with King & Schickli PLLC, a Lexington intellectual property boutique firm. Prior to joining King & Schickli, Pat served as in-house Corporate Counsel to Alltech, Inc.

Accolades

Managing Intellectual Property, IP Stars (2021-24)

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Client Alerts

Potential Changes to Enforcement under the Bayh-Dole Act

The enactment of the Bayh-Dole Act (P.L. 96-517, Patent and Trademark Act Amendments of 1980) established a uniform patent policy across federal research-funding agencies. This policy allows nonprofit organizations, such as universities that receive federal research funding, to retain title to inventions arising from federally funded research programs. Effectively, the...
by Patrick M. Torre

November 07, 2025

Client Alerts

USPTO Announced Termination of its After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0

Citing millions of dollars in administrative costs and lack of offsetting revenue as driving factors, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on October 1, 2024, that it is terminating its After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0 (AFCP 2.0) effective December 14, 2024. An earlier proposal contemplated instituting...
by Patrick M. Torre

October 07, 2024

Press Releases

Managing IP Honors Stites & Harbison Attorneys on “IP Stars” 2024 List

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Managing Intellectual Property (Managing IP) magazine has named nine Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorneys to the 2024 “IP Stars” list. Managing IP recognizes the most highly regarded intellectual property attorneys in the U.S. The star attorneys are nominated by their peers and in-house counsel. Inclusion on the list is...
by Stites & Harbison, PLLC

July 02, 2024

Client Alerts

Protecting Employer Proprietary Information Following the FTC’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on April 23, 2024 issued a rule banning future non-compete agreements with limited exceptions. The FTC rule bans virtually all non-compete agreements for employees and independent contractors. Pre-existing non-compete agreements with senior executives remain enforceable, but new non-competes with senior executives are not. Likewise, non-competes...
by Patrick M. Torre

June 20, 2024

Client Alerts

USPTO Issues Enablement Guidelines Following Amgen v. Sanofi

On January 10, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released Guidelines for Assessing Enablement in Utility Applications and Patents in View of the Supreme Court Decision in Amgen Inc. et al. v. Sanofi et al.i ii The Guidelines are intended to inform U.S. patent examiners and the...
by Patrick M. Torre

January 17, 2024

Press Releases

Managing IP Honors Stites & Harbison Attorneys on “IP Stars” 2023 list

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Managing Intellectual Property (Managing IP) magazine has named nine Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorneys to the 2023 “IP Stars” list. Managing IP recognizes the most highly regarded intellectual property attorneys in the U.S. The star attorneys are nominated by their peers and in-house counsel. Inclusion on the list is...
by Stites & Harbison, PLLC

July 25, 2023

Client Alerts

Trademark Law Developments in the Metaverse

The Metaverse (or “Web 3.0”) provides varying levels of access to three-dimensional environments for various decentralized activities such as gaming, commerce, social media, dissemination of authenticated digital assets such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency, and others. Participants can engage in any number of virtual reality activities and transactions with...
by Patrick M. Torre

May 03, 2023

Events

19th Biennial Business Associations Law Institute

Date: May 18, 2023 -

May 19, 2023

Griffin Gate Marriott Golf Resort & Spa, 1800 Newtown Pike, Lexington, KY 40511

Presented by the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law The seminar will be held at Griffin Gate Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Lexington, Kentucky, and simultaneously livestreamed via Zoom for those attending remotely. For more information (including a detailed agenda) and a printable registration form, download...
by Trevor T. Graves, Patrick M. Torre and Alison M. Zeitlin

April 28, 2023

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