Stephen C. DeSalvo

Associate Intellectual Property

Washington, D.C. +1 202 389 3097

Stephen C. DeSalvo

Overview

Stephen C. DeSalvo is an intellectual property associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation involving a wide variety of technologies. Prior to joining Kirkland, Stephen served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kent A. Jordan at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and to the Honorable Raymond C. Clevenger, III at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Representing a major consumer electronics company as defendant in the Eastern District of Texas and as petitioner in inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in multi-patent litigation concerning quantum dot technology.

Representing Honeywell in a series of Federal Circuit appeals from inter partes reexaminations of patents related to next-generation refrigerants.

Representing a medical device company as plaintiff in the Eastern District of Virginia in patent infringement case concerning spinal implant devices.

Representing a major oil and gas equipment manufacturer as defendant in the Southern District of Texas in litigation of patent infringement, trade secret, breach of contract, tortious interference, and unfair competition claims concerning pump packing assemblies.

Represented Samsung in a Federal Circuit appeal of a patent infringement case concerning FinFET transistors.

Law ClerkHonorable Kent A. JordanUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit2017–2018

Law ClerkHonorable Raymond C. Clevenger, IIIUnited States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit2018–2019

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2016

Summer Associate, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, 2015–2016

Representing pro bono client in immigration matter before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and related child custody matter in state court.

Representing pro bono client in criminal appeal of conviction and sentence to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Represented pro bono client in obtaining individualized education-related services for child in public school.

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Comment, "Invalidating Issue Preclusion: Rethinking Preclusion in the Patent Context," 165 U. Pa. L. Rev. 707, 2017

Co-Author, "Signaling Factor Interactions with Polysaccharide Aggregates of Bacterial Biofilms," 31 Langmuir 1958, 2015

Co-Author, "Probing Mechanisms of Bacterial Infection Through Molecular Dynamics Simulations," 39 Ann. Ne. Bioengineering Conf. 41, 2013

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2020District of Columbia
  • 2018New York

Courts

  • United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJ.D.summa cum laude2017

    Managing Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review

    Peter McCall Prize

    Herbert F. Schwartz Award

    Littleton Fellow Legal Writing Instructor, 2016–2017

    National Champion, Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition, Intellectual Property, 2017

  • Syracuse UniversityB.S., Chemical Engineeringsumma cum laude2014

    Renee Crown University Honors Program

    L.A. Hotze Outstanding Achievement Award, Chemical Engineering, 2014

    George M. Berry Award, Best All-Around Engineering, 2014

    Best Honors Capstone in Science and Engineering, 2014

    Class Marshall, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, 2014

    AIChE Donald F. Othmer Award, Sophomore Academic Excellence, 2012

    Department of Chemistry Award, 2011