DLA Piper LLP (US)

Intellectual Property and Technology; Patent Litigation; Cross-Border Litigation; International Arbitration; Antitrust and Competition; Commercial Contracts Disputes; Industrials

Partner; US Co-Chair, Industrials Sector

Ferlillia V. Roberson focuses her intellectual property practice on complex patent and trade secrets litigation in district court, the US International Trade Commission and proceedings before the US Patent Office. Ferlillia also advices counseling on all aspects of patent, trade secrets, and trademark related matters.

Ferlillia's patent litigation experience covers a broad range of technologies, including consumer goods, mobile communications devices, railroad car sets, data storage systems, advanced medical devices, pharmaceuticals, industrial and manufacturing equipment and processes, biochemistry, hazardous waste materials, heat exchangers, welding equipment, GPS navigation systems and automotive devices, among others.

Ferlillia has experience representing her clients in patent and trade secrets jury trials, ITC hearings inter partes reviews proceedings and before the Federal Circuit. Ferlillia has extensive trial and courtroom experience, including handling dozens of ITC cases and district court litigations.

The Richard Linn American Inn of Court; Board Member, Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing (LCBH); Chicago Women in IP (ChiWIP); American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA); Chicago Committee Minorities In Large Law Firms; Black Women's Lawyer's Association of Greater Chicago

J.D., Northwestern University School of Law; B.S., Illinois Institute of Technology