Mikaela Stone

Mikaela Stone focuses her practice on complex patent litigation, both in federal courts and before the Patent Trial & Appeal Board. Her experience in more than one hundred PTAB proceedings has equipped her with the knowledge necessary to develop and execute a winning case strategy. 

Mikaela Stone is Counsel in King & Spalding's Denver office and a member of the Trial and Global Disputes Practice Group.  She has litigated high-profile IP matters in district court, the Federal Circuit, and before the Patent Trial & Appeal Board across a variety of technologies, including wireless technologies, medical devices, enterprise storage hardware systems and content management platforms, cybersecurity, and design patents.

Mikaela's interdisciplinary experience trying antitrust and trade secret claims, as well as more than one hundred PTAB proceedings, uniquely qualifies her for developing creative defensive strategies, particularly in a competitor versus competitor environment.  Mikaela was named by the PTAB Bar Association to the Top 50 Women in PTAB Trials and teaches as an adjunct professor at University of Denver Law School. 

Prior to joining the legal field, Mikaela conducted research in mathematical epidemiology and constructed hardware for the gamma-ray based Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS). Her previous studies have equipped her with broad knowledge in physical, electrical, chemical, and biological sciences.