Stephen C. DeSalvo

Associate Intellectual Property

Practices

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.

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

Admitted only in New York and practice is supervised by principals of the Firm

Courts

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