Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Intellectual Property

Kelly Farnan, director at Richards, Layton & Finger, focuses her practice on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation in Delaware’s state and federal courts.  She has been involved in numerous bench and jury trials and has also been successful in resolving disputes in her clients’ favor through dispositive motions.

Kelly focuses her IP litigation practice on complex patent disputes in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, representing national and international manufacturing, telecommunications, technology, and pharmaceutical companies. She has also represented clients in arbitrations under the Delaware Uniform Arbitration Act and by the American Arbitration Association.

Kelly is active in the Delaware chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the association through which the Delaware district court interacts with the intellectual property bar. She is past president of the Delaware chapter of the FBA and is a past participant and coordinator of the Federal Trial Practice Seminar sponsored by the district court and the FBA.

PRACTICES

Arbitration & Mediation

Intellectual Property

Commercial Litigation

Administrative Law

Legislation Would Address Abusive Patent-Litigation Tactics—Delaware Business Court Insider | February 26, 2014

On the heels of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Congress is currently considering a number of bills designed to address abusive patent-litigation tactics associated with nonpracticing entities, often referred to as “patent trolls.”

Delaware, 2003

New Jersey

Lawyers’ Advisory Committee to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Chair

Federal Bar Association, Past President, Delaware Chapter

Child Attorney, Delaware’s Office of the Child Advocate

Federal Civil Panel, United States District Court for the District of Delaware

College of William & Mary School of Law, J.D., 2003

University of Richmond, B.S., Biology, 2000