Kenneth L. Dorsney

WILMINGTON

302-384-9408

kld@elliottgreenleaf.com

Kenneth (Ken) L. Dorsney is of counsel to the Firm in its Wilmington office, where he represents clients in patent, trademark, Lanham Act and intellectual property matters and litigations. Mr. Dorsney is a registered patent attorney who began his career as a judicial law clerk for The Honorable Mary Pat Thynge, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of Delaware. After his clerkship with Judge Thynge, Mr. Dorsney clerked for The Honorable Kent A. Jordan, U.S. District Judge for the District of Delaware (in December 2006, Judge Jordan was elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit). Following his clerkships, Mr. Dorsney practiced in the District of Columbia where he worked for a number of years as a patent litigator at Fish & Neave and Patton Boggs, LLP.

Mr. Dorsney has represented patent litigants from pre-suit investigation through discovery, mediation, trial, and post-trial phases of the case. He has participated in mediations, Markman hearings, and trials. He has reviewed patents and patent licenses in a variety of technologies in support of litigation and patent maps for product development and placement; drafted patent claims; reviewed and analyzed joint development, nondisclosure, and confidentiality agreements; and, as a registered patent attorney, is fully familiar with the impact the prosecution history has on the ultimate enforceability of a patent once obtained.

Mr. Dorsney also represents commercial interests before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, where he has, among other matters, litigated a patent ownership and inventorship dispute in the context of a debtor’s sale of business assets. He also has an active commercial practice in the Delaware Superior Court and the Delaware Chancery Court.

Ken has a B.A. and B.M.E. from the University of Delaware and a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School Of Law and is admitted to practice in Delaware and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Ken, a native of Delaware, lives in Wilmington with his wife Constance and two children.

This Attorney in the News

January 2010

• Elliott Greenleaf and the American Bar Association Host Patent Law Roundtable on "Are Genes Patentable?"

• Elliott Greenleaf Selected As Delaware Special Intellectual Property Counsel in the Ames Holding Corporation Bankruptcy

December 2009

• Kenneth L. Dorsney Joins Firm to Further Develop the Firm's Intellectual Property Practice