Jennifer C. Bailey
Partner
Specialties:
IP Litigation, Patent
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Jennifer C. Bailey
Jennifer joined Hovey Williams in 2002 and practices in the areas of patent litigation and prosecution. Her experience in all pre-trial phases of patent litigation includes discovery, summary judgment motions, claim construction (Markman) motions, and related hearings. Jennifer’s defense work includes preparing complex requests for reexamination of patents as an optional means for attacking invalid patents. She also is particularly knowledgeable about oppositions of European patents and has participated in opposition proceedings at the European Patent Office in Munich, Germany.
Jennifer’s prosecution experience includes preparing and prosecuting numerous patent applications in the computer software, electrical, and mechanical arts. She also has extensive experience in registering copyrights, including copyrights for software, and advising clients on how best to maintain their copyrights. Jennifer has counseled many clients about infringement, invalidity, and licensing of their patents. In addition, she has negotiated and drafted license agreements, prepared invalidity, non-infringement, and freedom to operate opinions, and negotiated settlements of various types of intellectual property disputes, including inventorship, copyright ownership, patent ownership, and infringement disputes.
Jennifer’s experience in both patent litigation and prosecution benefits her clients, as she is able to apply the tools and lessons learned from both fields. Her broad range of experience allows her to counsel clients on a variety of issues, to minimize expense, to prepare and prosecute patent applications while being cognizant of potential litigation triggers, and to analyze claims and defenses during litigation with the appreciation for the nuances of a patent that comes from having prosecuted patents.
Jennifer is a former adjunct professor of patent law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and a former mathematics instructor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is also a frequent speaker on intellectual property issues and has been a source for a number of news articles regarding intellectual property. Jennifer serves as an Inn Master in Intellectual Property for the Inns of Court at UMKC School of Law.
Presentations and Publications
- Speaker, Negotiating & Drafting License Agreements in Anticipation of Patent Validity Challenges, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Kansas City, Missouri, October 27, 2009.
- Panelist, Recent Patent Law Developments for Business Lawyers, American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting (Chicago, Illinois), August 2, 2009.
- Panelist, Practicing Ethically in the Electronic Era, Association of Women Lawyers, May 19, 2009 (Featured Speaker Regarding Litigation Holds in the Electronic Era).
- Speaker, Media Law, University of Missouri – Kansas City, February 2008 and March 2009.
- Speaker, The Ethical Pitfalls That Arise in Intellectual Property, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s Annual CLE By the Hour, June 27 and 30, 2008.
- Speaker, The Ethical Pitfalls That Arise in Intellectual Property, University of Missouri – Kansas City’s Annual Review of the Law, June 20, 2008.
- Speaker, Mastering the Basics of Software Patents and Copyrights, Kansas City Chapter of Independent Computer Consultants Association, May 27, 2008.
- Speaker, Intellectual Property Primer for the Corporate Counsel, University of Missouri – Kansas City’s Annual Review of the Law, June 2007 and June 2005.
- Speaker, Ethics in an Intellectual Property Law Practice, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Committee, June 14, 2006.
- Speaker, Intellectual Property for Business Owners, Johnson County Community College’s Entrepreneur Series, March 8, 2005.
Education
- University of Missouri-Columbia—Juris Doctor, 2001
- University of Missouri-Columbia—concentration in Physics, 2001-2002
- University of Tennessee at Martin—Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, magna cum laude, 1998
Memberships
- American Bar Association (ABA)
- Missouri Bar Association (MoBar)
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (KCMBA)
- American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Bar Admissions
- Kansas, 2007
- Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, 2005
- U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, 2005
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2003
- Missouri, 2002
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, 2002
- Tennessee, 2001