Kirkland & Ellis LLP

John O’Quinn’s practice focuses on litigation, including intellectual property disputes, commercial litigation, regulatory matters, and other complex litigation matters at the trial and appellate levels. He has argued over seventy appeals in courts throughout the country, including more than forty in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. For each of the past five years he has been named in the IAM Patent 1000, particularly for his work in the Federal Circuit. His work has also been recognized in the National Law Journal, the Legal 500, the Financial Times, and in Law360, where he was named a “Rising Star” in appellate litigation. John has been to trial multiple times, where he has examined expert and fact witnesses. Representative clients include Abbott, Charter Communications, Cisco Systems, C.R. Bard, IBM, Motorola, POET LLC, and Teva Pharmaceuticals.

Harvard Law School, J.D., 2001 magna cum laude, Fay Diploma (graduated first in class), Sears Prize (awarded to the two students with highest GPA in second year), Editor-In-Chief, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S., Chemical Engineering Practice, 1998, National Science Foundation Fellowship; University of Oxford, UK, M.Sc., Environmental Change and Management, 1997 with Distinction, Fulbright Scholar; North Carolina State University, B.S., Chemical Engineering; B.A., Multidisciplinary Studies, 1996 summa cum laude, Valedictorian, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Student Body President, 1995-1996.