Dawn-Marie Bey is a partner in King & Spalding’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Ms. Bey concentrates her practice on client counseling with respect to all facets of intellectual property (IP) law, with particular emphasis on patent procurement and large patent portfolio management. She counsels clients on a range of IP issues including: US and foreign patent prosecution strategies, patent enforcement and infringement defense, IP licensing, IP due diligence and IP ownership in view of government funding (e.g., Bayh-Dole, FAR, DFAR).
In addition to private practice experience, Ms. Bey spent four years as a patent examiner with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) examining patent applications in the following arts: optical modulators, optical lenses, liquid crystal displays, lasers and semiconductors. She is registered to practice before the USPTO. Ms. Bey began her technical career working in the field of plasma physics at the Naval Research Laboratory where she studied high altitude nuclear effects via high-energy laser-induced simulations.
Ms. Bey attended George Mason University School of Law, where she graduated with a recognized concentration in intellectual property law, completing individual courses in all areas of intellectual property including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets and specialized courses in patent licensing, patent damages, patent prosecution, patent litigation, interferences, unfair trade practices and international protection of intellectual property. Ms. Bey is a published author in both the legal and technical fields.
Publications and Presentations
- 5th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute: Panel on “Patentable Subject Matter and Practice Strategies in the Shadow of Bilski” (January 2010; Moderator)
- Book Chapter in “The Impact of Bilski on Business Method Patents Leading Lawyers on Navigating Procedural Changes, Forming New Patent Filing Strategies, and Forecasting Future Developments: Responses to Bilski: Rejections, Suggestions and Follow-On Case Law,” (August 2009, Aspatore Books, a Thomson Business)
- Unreasonableness of the Patent Office’s “Broadest Reasonable Interpretation” Standard, AIPLA Quarterly Journal (To Be Published/Vol. 37, Issue 3 (2009) (co-author) (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1434918)
- Quanta v. LG Electronics: Further Restrictions on Patent Rights; but not an Exhaustion Windfall, Landslide (Vol. 1, No. 1 - Sept./Oct. 2008)
- Authority and Issues to Consider Prior to Entering into Funding Agreements with the Federal Government, Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal (April 2006)
- There’s No Free Lunch: Before Accepting Government Funding To Help Develop Or Build A Security Product, Companies Must Understand How It Could Alter Their Intellectual Property Rights To The Product, Security Management Magazine (June 2005)
- Shifting the Burden of Proving Patentability Vel Non In View of Dickinson v. Zurko, Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall 2004)
- Supreme Court Rules on Key Patent Infringement Doctrine, Washington Legal Foundation, Vol. 17, No. 26 (2002)
- Time-resolved Measurements of X-ray Damage to Optical Coatings, J. APP. PHYS., Vol. 81, No. 3 (1997) (co-author)
- Spectroscopic Diagnostics in a Colliding Blast-wave Experiment, PHY. REV. E., Vol. 49, No. 2 (1994) (co-author)
- Soft X-ray Output from a Laser-produced Plasma, J. QUANT. SPEC. and RAD. TRANS., Vol. 51, No. 1-2 (1994) (co-author)
- X-ray Damage to Optical Components Using Laser-plasma Source, J. APP. PHYS., Vol. 74, No. 9 (1993) (co-author)
