Matthew S. Yungwirth

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Matthew S. Yungwirth [ Associate ]
Duane Morris LLP
Atlantic Center Plaza
1180 West Peachtree Street NW, Suite 700
Atlanta, GA 30309-3448
USA

Phone: 404.253.6935
Fax: 404.759.2353
Email: MSYungwirth@duanemorris.com

Matthew S. Yungwirth practices in the areas of intellectual property and commercial litigation with an emphasis on patents, trademarks, and unfair competition. Mr. Yungwirth has represented clients in a diverse range of intellectual property matters, including patent litigation involving digital watermarking technology, voice over internet protocol technology, wireless LAN technology, digital audio recording technology and digital cable set-top receivers; unfair competition and deceptive trade practices litigation involving metallurgical casting technology; and various trademark litigation matters.

Mr. Yungwirth is a 2000 cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., Civ. Eng.). Admitted to practice in Georgia, he is a member of the Intellectual Property Law Sections of the American, Georgia and Atlanta bar associations.

Representative Matters

• Represented Internet security provider in patent litigation matter involving distributed security service management
• Represented metallurgical process development company in action to protect its intellectual property rights
• Represented a cable service provider in a patent litigation matter related to digital cable set-top receivers
• Represented a digital watermarking company in patent litigation matter that resulted in the plaintiff dismissing its claims
• Represented Fortune 100 computer networking company in a patent litigation matter related to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology that resulted in an agreed dismissal with prejudice
• Represented a healthcare products distributor in the successful pursuit of multiple false advertising, trade dress infringement and trademark infringement litigation matters
• Represented Fortune 500 document management company in successful pursuit of injunction against a distributor of gray market goods

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association
• State Bar of Georgia
  - Intellectual Property Law Section
• Atlanta Bar Association
• Republican National Lawyers Association
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
• Atlanta Bar Association,
  - Intellectual Property Law Section

Admissions

• Georgia
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Court of Appeals of Georgia
• Supreme Court of Georgia

Education

• University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2000
• Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S., Civil Engineering, 1996

Experience

• Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia
  - Associate, 2000-2002
• Duane Morris LLP
  - Associate, 2002-present
• Georgia Institute of Technology
  - Visiting Professor of Public Policy

Civic and Charitable Activities

• Habitat for Humanity - "Buildable Hours" Team Leader

Honors and Awards

• Recognized by Law & Politics and Atlanta Magazine as a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2005 and 2006

Selected Publications

• Co-author, Conservation Subdivisions: Ecological, Landscape, Construction and Legal Applications to Cherokee County, Georgia; published by University of Georgia, Institute of Ecology, Office of Public Service and Outreach, Spring 1999.
• Author, "Supreme Court Rules that 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(1) Does Not Apply to Software Copied and Installed on Computers Abroad," Duane Morris Federal Circuit Alert, May 1, 2007