Martin LeFevour

Martin LeFevour concentrates his practice in patent litigation and litigation counseling. Mr. LeFevour has represented individuals, small corporations and large corporations in patent, trademark and copyright infringement matters, unfair competition and unfair trade issues, trade secret issues and employer-employee disputes involving ownership of rights to intellectual property. The subject matter of the litigation has been quite diverse, including software and internet-based technologies, financial exchange trading technologies, banking transaction technologies, medical devices, gasoline pumping technologies, cell phone communications and broadcast technologies.

Mr. LeFevour earned his undergraduate degree (B.S.) in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.  After his service in the U.S. Army, Mr. LeFevour earned his law degree (J.D.) from the Northwestern University School of Law.

Representative litigation matters are listed below (italics indicates represented party):

Springboard Medical Ventures, LLC v. American Medical Systems, Inc. (patent infringement and theft of trade secret action regarding surgically implanted incontinence slings)

Fractus, S.A. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. (representing SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. And SANYO North America Corporation)(patent infringement action involving numerous defendants and patents regarding multiband cellphone antenna technology)

TurboChef Technologies, et al. v. Garland Commercial Industries, LLC, et al. (patent infringement action involving high speed, multi-heat source commercial ovens)

SMART Technologies ULC v. NextWindow Ltd. (patent infringement action involving touch screen optical tracking technology)

Better Education, Inc. v. SMART Technologies ULC, et al. (patent infringement action involving interactive student teaching devices)

FE Petro Inc. v. The Marley Company; The Marley Company v. FE Petro Inc. and Charles C. Franklin (patent infringement, theft of trade secret, false advertising and unfair competition action involving petroleum pumping and delivery technology)

The Marley Company v. Franklin Electric Co. and FE Petro (arbitration action involving breach of contract)

The Bradbury Company, Inc. v. ASC Machine Tools, Inc. (patent infringement action involving sheet metal forming machines)

KSE, Inc. v. Trojan Technologies, Inc.  (arbitration action regarding UV process to purify drinking water)

Cobra Electronics Corporation v. The Whistler Group, Inc. (trademark and trade dress action involving radar detectors)

Solaia Technology LLC v. Miller Brewing Company, et al. (patent infringement action involving programmable logic controllers in the manufacturing process)

TAH Industries, Inc. v. Bainbridge Timbercreek, Inc. (patent infringement action involving static mixers for chemicals)

TAH Industries, Inc. v. Sulzer Mixpac (German litigation)(patent infringement action involving static mixers for chemicals)

Lyndex Corporation v. Heartech Precision, Inc. et al. (patent infringement action involving machine shop drill collars)

Weather Central, Inc. v. WSI Corporation d/b/a Weather Services International (patent infringement action involving weather newscaster green screen tracking technology)