Proactive, aggressive and disciplined IP litigation counsel 

Kristin Noel is an experienced intellectual property (IP) trial lawyer. She has litigated IP rights for a variety of technologies, from telecommunications to stem cells, water fixtures to software, industrial machinery to drug targets. With extensive experience in high-stakes competitor disputes, and having tried cases to verdict, her practice includes:

• Patent litigation
• Trademark litigation
• Lanham Act litigation
• Trade secret litigation
• Copyright litigation
• Trade dress litigation

Kristin believes that front-end preparation dictates back-end results. Her team is proactive, aggressive and efficient. That discipline is one of the reasons Quarles has been named among the country’s most feared law firms in litigation by BTI Consulting.

Kristin is a former national chair of the firm’s IP Litigation team.

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• Wisconsin

Education

• Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1996)

• Northwestern University (B.A., 1993)

• Exergen Corp. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: A Heightened Standard for Pleading Inequitable Conduct in Patent Cases
• “Federal Circuit Applies Volkswagen II to Transfer Patent Case Out of Eastern District of Texas ‘Rocket Docket"
• “The Fifth Circuit’s Decision in ‘In re Volkswagen’ and What It Could Mean to the Patent Community"
• “The Patent Enforcement Landscape & Realizing Additional Value from Your Patent Portfolios"
• “Updates to Patent Licensing Laws"

Seminar

• 2017 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
• Litigation Leaders Webinar Series: IP Litigation Advocacy